Sekai Holland Wins Prestigious Peace Prize
The Research and Advocacy Unit wishes to congratulate the co-Minister within the Organ on National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration, Minister Sekai Holland on receiving the Sydney Peace Prize....
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On Wednesday, 4thApril the Herald reported the governor for Mashonaland East Cde EniasChigwedere acknowledged that there were over 1000 vacant teaching posts in his province. Chigwedere called upon...
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Feminisation of the Electoral Process in Zimbabwe
Women are under-represented in most if not all of Zimbabwe’s political institutions, irrespective of the fact that the Constitution, in sections 17 and 56 states that there should be equal...
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Gender Equality and Equity Analysis of Zimbabwe’s Constitution and Commission...
In 2013, Zimbabwe enacted a new Constitution, including strong gender equality provisions that outlaw discrimination against women. The new Constitution promotes women’s full participation in all...
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Beyond 2023
This opinion piece makes a case for quotas, arguing their need as a correction for past practices and a system that has long proven its importance in achieving gender parity. Despite the challenges...
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Women and Active Citizenship in Zimbabwe: A preliminary investigation of...
This preliminary report examines some of the changes that have taken place in Zimbabwean women’s agency since 2004. It follows on from several analyses of the Afrobarometer data in recent years, all as...
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Will Young Women Make A Difference In The 2018 Elections? Findings From An...
RAU conducted an online survey to establish young women's views on politics as we prepare for elections next year (2018) as a follow up to research conducted with groups of middle class women in 2016....
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Women's Political Leagues
This paper, a first in the series of women's political leagues, is a literature review paper, providing an overview of the information on women's political leagues and wings that exist already. It...
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Policy Brief: Increasing Women's Political Participation
Young women are interested in politics but have no faith in political parties. They feel that political parties do not have their interests at heart and that they are not concerned about the ordinary...
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Dear Rita
In commenting on the issue of proof of residence for women, Justice Makarau said ‘They can register to vote by getting a letter from their husband confirming they still reside with him. If you are not...
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Current Debate On Women's Participation
There is agreement that though efforts continue to be made in improving the plight of women and availing better opportunities which include access to education and the laws that seek to end early child...
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Women's Wings in Zimbabwe in 2017: Are they necessary?
This report examines women’s political wings in Zimbabwe, and is a follow up to a previous report produced in June 2017.11 Women’s wings are common in any political party, but the question is, in the...
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Gender Based Violence Within Secondary Schools in Zimbabwe.
Every year the world comes together to commemorate 16 days of Activism Against GBVfrom the 25th of November to the 10th of December centred around a theme. 2017‟s theme was “Together we can end GBV in...
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Young Women's Hopes In The New Dispensation
The Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU) conducted an online survey on young women’s views on current political developments and their hopes in the new dispensation. The purpose of the survey was to...
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Survey on Young Women's Political Participation: Her Right of Way, Give Way.
In order to facilitate evidence-based advocacy backed by empirical findings, IYWD partnered with the Research Advocacy Unit (RAU) to commission a desk and field research in the form of a national...
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A Gender Audit of the 2018 Elections
Elections in Zimbabwe have always been bitterly contested affairs since 2000, and women have not been immune from all the problems that emerge during elections. There has been an endless cycle of women...
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Political participation by young women in the 2018 elections: Pre-election...
This is a preliminary report on a research project between the Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU), the Institute for Young Women’s Development (IYWD) and HIVOS. The aim behind the study was to examine...
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2018 Elections: What Happened to the Women?
With the passing of the 2013 Constitution came an explicit commitment to gender equality in all aspects of Zimbabwean life, which was an important achievement of the women’s movement in all the lead up...
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Political participation by young women in the 2018 elections: Post-election...
When we sent out three reports after the election in July, one of these dealt with the hopes and desires of young women in Bindura two months before the election. RAU went back to Bindura in September...
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Devolution and Women Empowerment in Zimbabwe: An Opportunity for Young Women...
Women have been grossly marginalized in organs of decision-making and governance structures in Zimbabwe despite the Constitution’s attempt to bridge this gap by providing both women and men with the...
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