2. The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women’s
Empowerment (UN Women) was established in 2010 with the United
Nations Secretary General’ special mandate to accelerate progress on
gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEWE) and support
efforts of UN member states to set global standards for achieving
GEWE
The UN Women Gender, Peace and Security Project supports
Government of Zimbabwe and NGOs’ efforts to strengthen capacities of
security sector actors to respond to gender, peace and security
concerns in Zimbabwe through gender mainstreaming and gender
sensitive policy promotion in key security sector training and academic
institutions; gender mainstreaming in community peacebuilding
mechanisms and promoting women’s participation in peace and
governance issues
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3. The project aims at:
Institutionalizing gender responsive security sectors in rural
communities
Strengthening accountability mechanisms and tools used by local
authorities to enable gender responsive service delivery in women’s
peace and security issues.
Increasing participation, voice and power of women to influence
gender sensitive service delivery decisions and priorities.
Fostering a women-led grassroots early warning system to support
effective reporting of cases of violence prior to, during and after
elections
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4. Women’s peace
committees
Men and boys
Community
policewomen
Women’s
situation room
feeding into the
MWAGCD office
SMS
communications
platform
Community
Tabloid ‘We
Connect’
Community
peace journalists
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5. NPRC, Gender Commission, members of
the Presidential Chief’s Council
Traditional leaders, Faith Leaders,
academics, humanitarian leaders,
NGOs
Community women, women-led
CBOs, community police, refugees
if any, community men and boys
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6. Community tabloid
6 peace committees established in rural
communities
180 women leaders trained in leadership
and
peacebuilding
6 community peace journalists trained
4 community tabloids published
2 SMS communication platforms launched
40 community leaders trained (traditional
leaders,
police, faith leaders)
1 community police women trained
1 village secondary school established by
community women
5 community income generating projects
launched,
including 2 village rotational scheme
informal banks
2 peace netball teams launched
2 community drama groups launched
4 women now part of the 7 member
traditional
chief’s court
2 community healing gardens established
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7. Setting up of a national women-led situation
room in partnership with the NGOs and the
MWAGCD
Placement of development workers in the field
with the NGO and CBOs and in the situation
room with the MWAGCD
Feeding information from the communities
through to the Sitroom, to the CEWARN and to
the AU Sitroom
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8. Curriculum development – gender gap analysis
Development and adoption of14 gender
sensitive curricula in 5 security sector
institutions, including the military
Training of mediators – replicating the AU
Gender directorate best practice
Mainstreaming a WPSI in the military centre of
excellence
Gender audit of the military
Launching of 5 degrees on gender and
transformative leadership in partnership with
ACTIL
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