2015 Sadc Gender Protocol Summit and Awards

2015 SADC GENDER PROTOCOL SUMMIT AND AWARDS

CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

INSTITUTIONAL APPLICATION

This award recognises progress in mainstreaming gender the local government, and Media Centres of Excellence. Use this form to do your institutional profile as part of your application process. The application must be accompanied by evidence to support all application form.

ALL FIELDS ARE COMPULSORY.

THIS PART OF THE APPLICATION WILL BE UPLOADED ONLINE

Name of good practice

“GENDER EQUALITY IN MAKONI RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL WHY NOT 50/50 YES WE CAN”

SCORE CARD AND EVIDENCE TABLE

Please fill in progress on your score card from last year, and update the evidence. Judges will assess the progress you have made. Their score will be final.

Please upload your completed score card on the online application in the section called supporting documentation. Please name your score card as follows

Please use this section to list the evidence that goes with your score card. Upload evidence on the online application in the section called supporting documentation.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT / EVIDENCE UPLOADED – PLEASE RECORD FILE NAMES /
Policy framework / ü  National Gender Policy
ü  HIV and AIDS Policy
ü  Funeral Policy
ü  Gender Action Plan
Governance / ·  Full Council Minutes
·  Committee Minutes
·  Committee Structures
·  Ward development committee minutes
Mainstreaming gender into existing programmes / o  Clients Charter
o  Council’s Vision Mission Core Values and Objectives
o  Procurement Committee minutes
o  Tender Advertisements
o  Tender Contracts
Procurement /

• Procurement Committee Minutes
• Adjudication of Tenders
• Tender Advertisements
• Tender Contracts
• Assets Register

Climate change and sustainable development / ü  Attendance Registers on allocation of stands
ü  Stands Registers
ü  Permits Registers
ü  Boreholes constructed and repaired
ü  Committee minutes.
Statistics on schools and clinics
Land and housing
Water and sanitation
Environmental health
HIV and AIDS and care work
Social development
Gender specific projects
Gender based violence
Others
Employment Practices
Selection and recruitment / Ø  Advertisements for jobs
Ø  Copy contracts for workers
Ø 
Capacity building / §  Sub District Training Minutes
§  Ward Development Committee Minutes /Reports
§  District Gender Council Reports/Minutes
§  Workshop Programmes and Reports
Working conditions and environment / o  Vouchers for staff food
o  Policies for HIV and AIDS
o  Funeral Policy
o  Medical Aid
o  Protective Clothing Policy
Gender Management System
Gender structures / Ø  Council Committee Organogram
Ø  Council Staff Organogram
Ø  District Gender Council Minutes/Reports
Ø  Council’s Gender Committee.
Ø  Performance contracts for Mr Pise, Mr Mushaya and Mrs Murigwa.
Budgets / ·  2014 budget
·  2015 budget
·  Full Council minutes
·  Finance Committee Minutes
·  Management Team Minutes
Monitoring and evaluation / ·  scorecard
·  Review Reports
·  Programme of Works
·  Construction standard
·  Building bye –laws by council
·  Monitoring and evaluation committee
·  Health requirement standard
·  Biological oxygen demand } on sewer
·  Chemical oxygen demand } on sewer
·  World Health Organisation standard } on portable water

Resource mobilisation for work on gender equality

Amount local currency (specify) / Amount in Rand
Gender specific allocation – please state the names of the projects
Women’s Revolving Fund / USD5000 / 35 000
Sub District Training / USD 6000 / 42 000
Nyazura reservoir and Headlands Sewer Reticulation / USD 210 000 / 1 470 000
Staff Canteen / USD 4 800 / 33 600
Gender in mainstream projects (please specify)
Electrification of Inyati Mine Township / USD 20 000 / 140 000
Mitsubishi Motorised Grader (purchased on 10/3/15) / USD 174 000 / 1 218 000
Nyazura and Headlands Townships Street Lights / USD 30 000 / 210 000
Boreholes Repairs and Maintenance / USD 30 000 / 210 000
Tsikada Clinic Construction / USD 20 000 / 140 000
Nissan Caravan AAE 6753 (Staff and Cllrs Bus) / USD 10 000 / 70 000
In kind contributions to the COE process – eg venues (please specify)
Funds raised from donors or the private sector for gender work – (please specify)
Gender Links Grant for 50/50 Advocacy campaign / USD 1 000 / 7 000
Ford Ranger truck REG AAE 8590 donated by Action Faim / USD 15 000 / 105 000
TOTAL / USD 525 800 / 3 680 600

THIS WORD DOCUMENT WILL BE UPLOADED TO THE WEBSITE

1.  INSTITUTIONAL PROFILE

COUNTRY / Zimbabwe
COUNCIL / Makoni Rural District Council
GENDER CHAMPION / Mr Edward Pise
GENDER FOCAL PERSON / Mrs Annah Murigwa
Baseline score (year) / 2012 -60%
Progress Score (year) / 2014 -68%
Latest score (year) / 2015 -76.5%
Attitude score –baseline / 2014- 40%
Attitude score – follow up / 2015 -50%
Women / Men / Total / % Women
Council / 4 / 34 / 38 / 10.52%
Management / 6 / 6 / 12 / 50%
Council staff overall / 15 / 65 / 80 / 18.75%
Population served / 129 397 / 118 596 / 247 993 / 52.17%
Key characteristics / Mining, Buying ,Selling and Agriculture

Synopsis

Sum up the situation of the Council – how far has it come, how far has it progressed, what evidence is there of change. If possible begin with an anecdote that demonstrates this change. - 300 words

Makoni Rural District Council is the largest administrative district in Zimbabwe. It shares boarders with 7 other districts.

It has urban set ups in Nyazura and Headlands. A ghost Inyati Mine Township where copper was mined has no electricity and no activity taking place. Council has injected funds towards its electrification and drilled three boreholes.

22 clinics are under council’s jurisdiction. The farthest is Chikore Clinic one hundred kilometres away from Rusape. Tsikada Clinic was officially opened on 20 February 2015. The Gender Focal Person Mrs A Murigwa was the Director of Ceremony together with one of the teachers at the nearby Tsikada Secondary School.

Council has come up with reviewing policies periodically. These include Funeral, Staff Training Transport and HIV and AIDS.

Council staff wears ‘black ‘on Thursdays in solidarity to children and women raped in the district.

Council’s gender journey has been tough. There is remarkable change now that the council chairperson Alderman Mutasa, the Chief Executive Officer Mr EM Pise and all heads of Departments had maximum buy in on gender mainstreaming.

Council’s Treasurer is a woman and makes sure that gender issues are given priority and releases funds hence US$5000 to 10 women’s groups in 2014.

Wards which have not yet received funds from council have spearheaded Mukando that is pass on scheme on projects which include fencing of homesteads, paying bride price to in-laws, sending children to universities and improving health standards for households members.

Key objectives

Please state the key gender mainstreaming objectives of the COE – 300 words

Ø  To disseminate information on gender mainstreaming among employees at workplace at 3 sub offices, 22 clinics and in 39 wards from 50 % to 60 % by 31 December 2015.

Ø  To mainstream gender in all council’s 64 functions as specified by the Rural District Council’s Act Chapter 29:13, from 45% to 55% by 31 December 2015.

Ø  To conduct gender audit yearly whenever projects are identified by communities for the respective wards.

Ø  To budget yearly for Women’s Revolving Fund and ensure that the projects are implemented and funds are returned to council and loaned to all 39 wards.

Ø  To strengthen the district’s Gender Council through coordination of district activities by Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Gender and Community Development.

Ø  To conduct sub district training on gender, in 5 wards by 31 December 2015.

Ø  To collect gender disaggregated data and information related to gender based violence at institutions within the district by 31 December 2015.

Background

Give some background - What was the situation before the intervention? Include evidence from leaders within the institution, and those served by the institution – 300 words

Council used to have misconceptions towards gender, as women’s issues. The coming in of Integrated Results Based Management gave council a green light. The policy makers are eager to know what the council was doing over addressing gender agenda in the district. The Chief Executive Officer being the most innovative CEO in the country, ventured in local empowerment of women by proposing USD 5000 yearly towards women in the district. (Article 15 to 19 of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development.)The Administration and Human Resources Officer as an Agent of change over gender issues advocated for gender mainstreaming with a punch. He sent his wife to a teachers college and remains caring for his two children in lower primary school grades. He advocates gender issues at workplace and in communities.

Alderman D M Mutasa has capacitated his wife who is now responsible over financial matters on his tobacco farming project. He spares time to attend gender workshops within and outside the country. He advocates for equality in council chambers unlike before when women were giving opening and closing prayers and not participating effectively in council deliberations.

v  The Principal Internal Auditor Mr I Mabaudhi initiates discussions during lunch on gender and sex. Some ratepayers also join in the discussions.

Council now plays videos on council programmes, official opening of clinics, and council’s i and awareness campaigns at its Reception. Gender Links’ CDs are also played. This has a positive impact on the dissemination of council’s 64 functions under its mandate.

Some councillors now bring spouses in council meetings. This has shown that councillors are responsible fathers and mothers, promoting for education of electorates in local governance (Article 14 of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development

Council on 31 March 2015 resolved that social networking on WHATS-UP is vital. What’s-up was to be utilized by council in sending messages on any urgent issues which require council’s intervention.

Key activities

Please list at least five in bullet form – 500 words

SUB DISTRICT TRAINING

v  District Gender council members are involved in sub district trainings of communities.

v  5 training interventions have been lined up for 2015. Climate change has been set by council as priority due to deforestation.

v  Makoni District has resettlement areas where farmers grow tobacco as a cash crop.

v  Although contract farming by tobacco marketing companies is underway, still farmers utilize indigenous trees as firewood. The companies supply farmers with input including coal.

v  It takes less than 20 minutes to cut an indigenous tree and 20 years for it to mature.

v  Deforestation has impact on climate change and affects girls and women as they travel long distances to obtain firewood for cooking food.

v  Council has enacted a policy that every tobacco farmer should establish a woodlot to curb deforestation when curing tobacco.

v  Vehicles ferrying tobacco bales for marketing also destroy roads and bridges that were washed away by cyclone rains.

v  Tobacco marketing companies have been requested to pay levies in order to repair roads in the district.

v  Gender based violence has been rife in the district.

v  At sub district trainings, village heads and other traditional leaders are encouraged to conduct village assembly meetings and cascade the knowledge learnt.

v  Communities are urged to report any gender based violence cases especially children at schools.

v  Reports have been made on abuse of girls by teachers .Ministry of Education is investigating the cases.

v  Victims Friendly Unit at Police stations attends to gender based violence cases.

v  Development partners are equipping women, men boys and girls with entrepreneurship skills.

v  Rural Women’s Associations have been put in place by Action Aid Zimbabwe.

v  Rural Women’s Associations are developmental structures which educate communities on poverty eradication and women empowerment. (Article 15-19).

Resource allocations

Please put a summary here from the information uploaded

Local currency / Rands
Council allocations to gender-specific projects / USD 225 800 / USD 1 580 600
Council allocations to gender in mainstream projects / USD 284 000 / USD 1 988 000
In –kind support to the COE process / USD 16 000 / USD 112 000

Challenges

What have been the main challenges? How have these been overcome? 300 words

v  Major challenge is that the district is vast and cannot be reached at once.

v  Councillors are not mobile and travel for 50+ km servicing the communities.

v  Council established Maungwe Investments (Pvt) Ltd which has hundred per cent share ownership.

v  A resolution has made to purchase motor cycles for all the 39 councillors for mobility.

v  Sub offices were established at Nyazura, Headlands Inyati Mine Township and Chiendambuya Growth Point for access by communities to services offered by council.

v  Police Base Camps have been established at council clinics: Chitenderano, Tandi Matsika to mention a few.

v  All gender based violence cases are reported at base camps and victims are attended to at the clinics before they proceed to one stop centre situated at the district hospital in Rusape.

v  Ministry of Gender has Coordinators at village level. Not all wards have these Coordinators.

v  Spearheading of gender programme is still a process.

v  District Gender Council has roped in Pastors in its structure.

v  Gender issues are now being discussed in churches although some people do not attend church services.

v  Dissemination of information is still a challenge because of the vastness of the district.

Results (Please fill in what is relevant to your COE)

Women’s empowerment

How have women been empowered as a result of the COE work? – 200 words

Empowerment of women is a process which starts from individuals’ homes.

v  Resources are limited and women in the district have been urged to commence market gardening among other projects.

v  From garden to kitchen are the theme used to empower women.

v  Government‘s ZIMASSET blue print urges people to utilize resources they have.

v  Drying vegetable/meat is now the order of the day in the district.

v  Development partners, Ministry of Health and Gender, Youth and council are spearheading value addition projects to communities..