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Zimbabwe: Local quota for women now in parliament


Zimbabwe: Local quota for women now in parliament
Date: April 23, 2021
By Priscilla Maposa,
Harare, 19 April: The campaign for a quota for women in local government went into high gear in Zimbabwe this week with the tabling of a Constitutional amendment in parliament.  This seeks to extend the system in place at the national level to the local level with 30% seats reserved for women and distributed on a Proportional Representation (PR) basis.
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi said the amendments would propose a two-term cap as is the case with National Assembly proportional representation and assess if intended objectives would have been achieved. “We need legislation to give effect to this policy direction,” he said. ....

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Gender in Local Government Zambia - Gender Links


Gender in Local Government Zambia
Date: October 15, 2013
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This report concerns the Gender Justice and Local Government programme for Gender Links Zambia from August 2012 to March 2013. The work focuses on cascading and strengthening in Zambia of pioneering work on Centres of Excellence (COE’s) on Gender Mainstreaming for Local Government across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region by Gender Links (GL) and local government associations. The report incorporates the analysis of council institutional profiles and projects obtained through the Centres of Excellence (COE) process and the SADC Protocol 2013 summit. The report covers the activities undertaken in 22 councils in Zambia and the activities that Gender Links Zambia has been doing in conjunction with its partners. ....

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ZIMBABWE: Policy Driving Authorities to Be Gender Sensitive


Zimbabwe is no exception, especially at local government level.
However, the Central Government continues to show political will through the enactment of various pieces of legislation chief among them the National Gender Policy (NGP) of 2013 to 2017 which was later revised and unveiled on 6 July 2017.
The initial NGP recorded successes, namely the passing of a series of legislation to operationalise the policy, institutional and structural reforms that saw the national gender machinery being streamlined and strengthened through the creation of a separate Ministry responsible for Gender and Women Affairs.
Other notable achievements include institutionalisation of processes for gender mainstreaming including gender budgeting, the development and launch of the framework for broad based women s economic empowerment and far-reaching constitutional provisions for gender equality and equity. ....

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