Resources on Gender equality

  1. Project

    Adopting an economic empowerment approach to reducing violence and harassment in Zimbabwe

    08 June 2020

  2. News

    New fruit and vegetable pack house set to arrest post-harvest losses

    02 December 2018

    The people of Mutoko District, north of Harare, well known for their expertise in horticulture production, have repeatedly suffered loss of both produce and related income due to long distances to lucrative markets and limited access to effective transport.

  3. Our impact, their voices

    Traditional leaders from Zimbabwe become gender activists

    12 September 2018

    An ILO Project on gender equality in Zimbabwe helped traditional leaders to understand the benefits of involving women in economic and social activities.

  4. News

    Co-creating a Mopane caterpillars processing plant with women beneficiaries.

    08 June 2018

    Women beneficiaries in an AfDB supported project recently actively participated in the design of the infrastructure and production line layout of the processing plant that will ensure improved hygiene and more efficient production of their harvested Mopane worms.

  5. Women Economic Empowerment

    ‘Maçimbi (Mopani worms) are our ‘gold mines’

    26 April 2018

    Over 250 people converged at Matshiloni Village, Beitbridge to witness the groundbreaking ceremony for the Mopani Caterpillar Processing Centre. They consisted of officials from Ministries of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development, Finance, Labour and Social Welfare, ILO social partners and people from the surrounding villages.

  6. News

    Women gold miners in Zimbabwe co-designed a mercury free gold processing plant

    01 March 2018

    With the support of the ILO and development partners, Guruve Women in Mining Cooperative co-created an environmentally sustainable gold milling plant that will improve productivity and deliver higher yields in Zimbabwe.

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    Our impact, their voices

    How worms and gold can help improve livelihoods in rural Zimbabwe

    27 October 2017

    Thousands of people are set to benefit from a project in Zimbabwe aimed at creating jobs and improving livelihoods for women and youth in poor rural communities. The project focuses on the food production sector and gold ore processing.

  8. News

    The AfDB Youth and Women Empowerment Project (YWEP) comes to life

    11 October 2017

    This initiative will build on existing interventions to empower young people and women in the selected districts.

  9. Our impact, their voices

    Women entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe strive for a brighter future

    19 April 2017

    A new generation of female African entrepreneurs is beginning to spring up across the continent. In Zimbabwe, an ILO project is improving living conditions of women and their families in rural areas by promoting entrepreneurship.

  10. Project

    UN Joint Programme on Gender Equality (JPGE)

    24 March 2017

    This project is a component decentralised to the ILO through the Country Office for Zimbabwe (CO-Harare) under the United Nations of the Joint Programme on Gender Equality (JPGE). The JPGE addresses four priorities that were identified through a multi-sectoral consultative process that included government, workers’ and employers’ organizations. The four priorities have been structured around four pillars of: (1) promoting women’s security and combating gender-based violence; (2) women’s political participation and influence; (3) women’s economic empowerment and working conditions; and, (4) national accountability on gender equality and women’s empowerment.