This factsheet has been compiled to serve as an easy reference point of organisations working around a wide range of women development programmes, political, social and economic issues in Zimbabwe.
Women constitute 51 percent of the national population, and Zimbabwe is a signatory to a number of regional and international protocols aimed at promoting gender equality.
The United Nations has earmarked March as Women’s Month.
The following are some of the women organisations in Zimbabwe:
- Zimbabwe Gender Commission
Focus areas: Promoting programmes towards gender equality and the protection of the rights of specific groups who may be vulnerable as a result of their gender.
The Zimbabwe Gender Commission
First Floor, Pax House
No. 89 Kwame Nkrumah Avenue
Harare
Tel: +263 024 2701101 / +263 24 2250296
- Gender Links Zimbabwe
Focus areas – gender and governance focusing on gender mainstreaming at the local level, gender and justice focusing on gender-based violence issues, women’s rights, gender and media
Contacts- 30 Samora Machel Avenue
Nicoz Diamond Building
Harare
Tel number +263 (242) 798600
- Gender and Media Connect (GMC)
Focus areas – gender and media policy advocacy, knowledge management and empowerment, advancement of women in and through the media, digital media skills training for women and girls in marginalized areas.
Contacts- Abigail Gamanya Director
8 Van Praagh Avenue
Milton Park, Harare
+263 776 728 735, 263 716 325 682
- Forum for African Educationalists Zimbabwe Chapter (FAWEZI)
Focus areas – access, retention and completion of education by girls and young women, child safeguarding, psychosocial support, teacher capacity building, community mobilization and engagement, policy advocacy and gender responsive intervention.
Contacts – FAWEZI
Corner Brighton and Upper East Road
254 First Floor CDU
Mt Pleasant, Harare
Tel number +263 (242) 307793, +263 (242) 302925
- Apostolic Women Empowerment Trust (AWET)
Focus areas – empowerment of women and adolescents from apostolic churches to participate in social and economic developmental processes that affect them
Advance their rights
Child marriages, education, HIV/AIDS, maternal health
Contacts – Tendayi Gudo – National Director
22 Lanner Avenue
Vainona, Harare
Tel number +263 8677008840, +263 772700987
- Women in Communities (WICO)
Focus areas – women and girls’ health, rights and livelihoods through training and awareness programmes, networking to advance the welfare of girls and women
Contacts – Rebecca T Chirenga – Executive Director
WICO Zimbabwe
30 Lalbagh Ave, Ridgemont
Gweru
Tel number + 263 772 358 569
- Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) Zimbabwe
Focus areas- women and health, economic empowerment, life-skills training, vocational training and economic literacy
Contacts – 189 Westwood Drive
Westwood, Kambuzuma
Harare
Tel numbers +263 772 236 886, +263 713 472 084
[email protected], [email protected]
- Zimbabwe Young Women’s Network for Peacebuilding
Focus areas – feminism, peace-building, gender equality and equity
Contacts – 27 Chatsworth Road
Vainona, Harare
Tel numbers – +263 733 178 783, +263 773 376 460
- Women in Politics Support Unit (WiPSU)
Focus areas – elections, aspiring candidates, elected representatives, monitoring hate speech and sexual harassment in political parties, media monitoring, focusing on public and political participation of women
Contacts – Sakhile Siphelani- Ngoma – Executive Director
Tel number – +263 772 869 187
- Pan-African Positive Women’s Coalition Zimbabwe (PAPWC-ZIM)
Focus areas – capacity building for women living with HIV, advocacy, leadership, treatment access
Contacts – Tendayi Westerhof – National Director
- Zimbabwe Women’s Bureau
Focus areas – skills development, information dissemination, advocacy and lobbying, mainstreaming cutting across issues including gender equality, gender-based violence, HIV/AIDS
Child protection and psychosocial support
Contact – Melody Gwangwara
Zimbabwe Women’s Bureau
43 Hillside Road, Hillside
Harare
Tel numbers – +263 242 747809, +263 778202209
- Female Prisoners Support Trust (FEMPRIST)
Focus areas – support women in and released from prison through economic projects, sexual reproduction health, sanitary wear
Contacts – Rita Nyampinga
104 Central Avenue, Harare
Tel numbers – +263 772809978, +263 (242) 499599
- Female Students Network
Focus areas – leadership development, mentorship, programmes to empower female students, women’s rights, women’s rights, advocacy, psycho-social support
Contacts – Evernice Muhando
5th Floor Kopje Plaza
Cnr Jason Moyo and Kaguvi Street
Tel numbers – +263 772 959 590
- Women and Aids Support Network (WASN)
Focus areas – sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence
Contacts – 13 Walterhill Road
Eastlea, Harare
- Disabled Women’s Support Organisation
Focus areas – economic empowerment of women and girls with disabilities, advocacy, education, sexual and reproductive rights.
Contacts – Rejoice Timire
23 Clayton Road
Milton Park, Harare
Tel numbers – +263 712886860, +263 773287703
- Legal Outreach for Women Trust
Focus areas – legal advice for female offenders especially those based in rural areas
Contacts – Sophie Matimba
113 B Corner Fife Avenue and 3rd Street
Tel numbers – + 263 772 904 854, +263 773037308
- Gender Peace and Security Network
Focus areas- provide information on gender-based violence, peace building, economic empowerment of women, peacebuilding
Contacts- Tabeth Ndoro-Chideya – Project Director
Tel number – +263 772 491 873
- Women’s Action Group (WAG)
Focus areas – developing tools for women to claim and enjoy their rights
Contacts – 11 Lincoln Road
Avondale, Harare
Tel numbers – +263 (242) 308738
- Women Farmers Land and Agriculture Trust
Focus areas – facilitating women farmers’ access to resources, information, finance, training and inputs
Contacts – Phides Mazhawidza – Executive President
3 Acacia Close
Bluff Hill, Harare
Tel number – +263 773 422 917
- Katswe Sisterhood
Focus areas – building a movement that champions young women’s sexual and reproductive health rights, protecting the rights of women in southern Africa
Contacts -22 Suffolk Rd
Strathaven, Harare
Tel number – +263 772 978 880
- Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association (ZWLA)
Focus areas- promoting a society where women are empowered and assert their rights
Contacts – 17 Fife Avenue Harare
Tel numbers – +263 (242) 708491, +263 (242) 706820
Bulawayo Office
Cnr J Tongogara and 14th Avenue
Tel +263 (9) 887186/88
- Women Politicians Incubator Zimbabwe
Focus areas: Political skills, and promoting women participation in politics.
Contacts – Cynthia Chirinda – Founding Trustee
84 Broadlands Road
Emerald Hill, Harare
Contact number- +263 772438068
- Musasa Project
Focus areas – issues of violence against women and girls.
providing relief and shelter to victims of gender-based violence
Contacts – 64 Selous Avenue/Cnr Seventh Street, Harare
Tel number – +263(242) 706284.
- Zimbabwe Women’s Resource Centre and Network (ZWRCN)
Focus areas – building knowledge and promoting gender equality and women’s rights, challenging gender inequality and all forms of oppression with a focus on women’s empowerment.
Contacts – 288 Herbert Chitepo
- Zimbabwe Women Parliamentary Caucus (ZWPC)
Focus area: Promoting the contribution of women members of parliament towards Zimbabwe’s national development, and programmes towards gender equality.
Contacts: Parliament of Zimbabwe
Kwame Nkrumah & 3rd Street
PO Box CY 298
Causeway
Harare, Zimbabwe
Tel: +263 4 700 181 / 9, +263 4 252 936 / 55
Fax: +263 4 252 935
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