PROJECTS
Project name: Connecting to Lead: Young Women and Girls Taking the Lead in Challenging Inequalities and Ending GBV
The project’s overall goal is to contribute to the empowerment of YWAG by challenging the inequalities and injustices that fuel GBV in Masvingo, Zimbabwe, through advocacy capacity strengthening, community mobilization, and feminist movement building. The project is being implemented in Ward 16 in Chivi, a rural district in Zimbabwe—a district with a high prevalence of Gender-based violence cases. The project seeks to connect YWAG in Masvingo and beyond through physical and online activities like WhatsApp dialogues, podcast series, value clarification dialogues, and physical capacity-strengthening training. The project is targeting at least 300 people in their diversity.
Project Name: Leading in the New Decade: Leadership for and by AGYW for comprehensive HIV prevention and SRHR integration funded by Global HIV Prevention Coalition -UNAIDS
The project focused on building capacities of 36 AGYW from high HIV incidence and high HIV risk districts of Zimbabwe across the 10 provinces. The AGYW consisted of emerging and new advocates, who were trained in HIV prevention advocacy and movement building’s and GBV advocacy were supported with smartphones and data to be a vehicle for correct information giving and for engaging in digital advocacy during the Covid19 pandemic.108 sessions on topics related to AGYW leadership, gender equality, SRHR, HIV prevention, bodily autonomy and empowerment were conducted via WhatsApp reaching over 510 AGYW across the country. 236 AGYW were reached out through community-based dialogues supported by National AIDS Council at district level.
Project Name: “AGYW Demand- National Budget Advocacy to Show Us the Money on Health” funded by ARASA
Partnering with Womandla Foundation, 60 AGYW (10 from Masvingo province) were trained in budget advocacy and monitoring and co-created a position paper which provided evidence needed for the National Budget Advocacy. The 60 trained AGYW engaged in community National Budget Consultations to advocate for the recognition of the Abuja declaration and allocation of 15% of the national health budget towards health. Online the project reached over 600 AGYW with messages they could use for such advocacy. A high-level stakeholder meeting to present the position paper was organised and this linked AGYW leaders with policy makers including Members of Parliament of the parliamentary portfolio committee on Health.
Project Name: Connecting to Lead: Breaking the gendered digital divide funded by ARASA
The objective was to connect AGYW leaders and the communities they lead across 3 countries Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi to co-create solutions on improved and sustained digital advocacy. 15 girls across the 3 countries who lead community-based organisations who are part of the DAWA network were trained in digital advocacy, feminists movement building and resilience. The 15 young women further collaborated in the development of a toolkit, which seeks to support AGYW on effectively engaging in digital advocacy the new normal ushered in by the COVID 19 pandemic.
Project Name: Young People in Zimbabwe taking the lead on accountability funded by Youth Power Hub
In collaboration with Girl Child Empowerment the project focused on engaging with 50 young people who were engaged face to face from rural Masvingo province of Zimbabwe on strengthening accountability towards the ICPD+25 targets made by Zimbabwe which included the three
Zeros- zero unmet need for family planning, zero preventable maternal deaths and zero GBV and harmful practises. 147 digitally via WhatsApp, the resultant call to action was shared with stakeholders in a high-level meeting that had CSO representatives, community leaders and policy makers.