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  Political participation of rural women in decision making at the local government level in Zimbabwe

  International Invention Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, 2016

  The last few decades of the 20th century witnessed significant increases in women’s participation and representation in politics, in large part due to worldwide awareness campaigns, feminist movements, and better access to education, healthcare, and employment for women.
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  Student power in twenty-first century Africa: The character and role of student organising

  Routledge, 2016

  In March 2015, a wave of student protests, starting at the University of Cape
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  Where energy is women's business: national and regional reports from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific

  ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2007

  In the introduction to this publication, ENERGIA policy advisor and editor of this pubication Gail Karlsson writes, “In many developing countries, especially in the poorest areas, most energy currently comes from traditional biomass fuels such as wood, charcoal and agricultural wastes - and collection and managing these fuels is strictly ‘women’s business’.” She calls on national energy and dev
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  ILO Participatory Gender Audit

  International Labour Organization, 2007

  A Participatory Gender Audit is a tool and a process, based on participatory approaches, which assesses whether internal practices and systems for gender mainstreaming are effective and whether they are being followed. Participatory gender audits are used at an individual, team and organisational level to promote learning on how to integrate gender concerns throughout an institution.
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  Beyond inequalities: women in Zimbabwe

  Zimbabwe Women’s Resource Centre and Network, 2005

  This profile provides a gender analysis of the status of women and girls in Zimbabwe. Part I looks at the situation of women since the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action in 1995. The section covers economic policies; women's participation in politics and decision-making; laws and legal reform; education and technology; the socio-cultural context; health and media.
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  Establishing a Feminist Culture: the Experience of the Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network (ZWRCN)

  Routledge, 1997

  How easy is it to run an organisation using feminist values? The Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network (ZWRCN), established in Harare in 1990, began on the principle that the organisation would be built on a shared vision of sisterhood, openness, and democracy.
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  Lobola. Its Implications for Women's Reproductive Rights in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe

  Weaver Press, 2003

  Lobola, an amount paid by a prospective husband to the bride's family, is a tradition that is widely practiced across southern Africa. This study examines the impact of this social institution in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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  Perfect Crimes: Sexual Harassment at the Workplace in Zimbabwe

  Weaver Press, 2005

  For almost a decade, women in Zimbabwe have worked to gain rights in the workplace and to tackle, in particular, the issue of sexual harassment. This report charts the processes involved and the methodologies used in this struggle.
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  The National Gender Policy - Republic of Zimbabwe

  BRIDGE, 2004

  In Zimbabwe, women continue to experience inequality with men across the whole of society. The 2004 National Gender Policy thus lays out the Zimbabwe government's guidelines and institutional framework for combating gender inequalities in the country. In general, the government's vision is to reach economic, political, religious and social equality among women and men in all spheres of life.
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  When Sharing Female Identity is not Enough: Coalition Building in the Midst of Political Polarisation in Zimbabwe

  Routledge, 2004

  Since independence in 1980, the women's movement in Zimbabwe has grown in quantity and quality. This article examines the diversity in the women's movement, focusing on the Women's Coalition which was set up in 1999.

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