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Zimbabwe
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Our Partner
Women's Self-Promotion Movement (WSPM) is a non-governmental organization engaged in promoting women's empowerment and women's leadership in Zimbabwe and southern Africa. Its mission is to help women to help themselves.
Objectives:
- To promote women's and girls leadership through providing training in ICT, vocational skills, conflict transformation and peace-building, and public policy;
- To promote lifelong education and training for disadvantaged women and girls through counseling, scholarships, and educational loans to those in need;
- To initiate activities and projects towards jobs creation for women's economic independence and provide small scale credits facility to the low- income and poor women and girls;
- To create a research body and network for advancing women's human rights in war zones and to advocate against harmful traditional practices against girls and women;
- To organize meetings, workshops, training of trainers and awareness campaign to combat the HIV/ AIDS pandemic and provide voluntary counseling to the HIV positive.
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Stories and Reports
Leadership for Livelihood in Zimbabwe
May 2007: Despite the deepening financial crisis, WLP Zimbabwe/Women’s Self-Promotion Movement (WSPM) held a National Training of Trainers Institute from May 1-5, 2007 for 26 women leaders from 13 different community based organizations, NGOs, and religious groups.
With inflation soaring past 4,500%, according to the government, and independent financial institutions estimating the actual rate to be double that amount, the situation in Zimbabwe is critical. About 80 percent of Zimbabweans are unemployed, by some estimates.
WSPM continues to hold leadership trainings, with a focus on helping women find solutions to the immediate problem of loss of livelihood.
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Zimbabwe | Institutes and Training of Trainers )
WSPM Working Under Extremely Difficult Conditions
October 2006: Due to government repression as well as the ongoing economic crisis in which inflation rates have soared past 1,000%, NGOs and specifically, women’s rights organizations, face a great deal of difficulty in the work they do on the ground. Violence against women is on the rise, and there has been an increase in the number of female-headed households as men leave to find jobs elsewhere. The HIV/AIDS pandemic adds to the crisis women and children are facing in Zimbabwe.
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Partner Focus: Jordan and Zimbabwe
At the Women’s Learning Partnership, we consider our greatest achievement to be the solidarity, strength, and dynamism of our Partnership based on relationships of trust, respect, and cooperation. Our shared vision, nurtured through six years of collaborative effort and sustained communication, has enabled 18 autonomous national and regional organizations on four continents, working in 17 languages, and functioning under diverse conditions, to work closely together, thereby significantly increasing our impact on the struggle to secure justice and equality for women. The partners inspire each other, learn from one another, and provide support and solidarity in our human rights advocacy. In this issue we spotlight our partners in Jordan and Zimbabwe.
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Jordan | Zimbabwe | Leadership & Empowerment | Issue 16 (Winter/Spring 2007) | Workshops )
Congolese Refugee Women Strengthen Community Networks
In February 2006, WLP's Zimbabwe partner the Women's Self Promotion Movement (WSPM) brought together 50 leading activists and democracy workers from the Nyarugusu Congolese Refugee Settlement in Kigoma, Tanzania for a Leading to Choices leadership workshop.
Participants were drawn from NGOs and smaller, community-based organizations active at the camp, including Association de Mamans Enseignantes, Solidarité Pour Le Développement, La Voix de Femmes de Fizi, Umoja wa Wanawake Wakristo wa Kigoma, and Fondation Muhamed Ali pour la Paix. The goal was to strengthen collaboration between organizations working to improve the lives of refugee women living in the camp.
Women Refugees in Zimbabwe and Lebanon Work to Improve Quality of Life in Camps
From October-December 2003, nearly 100 women and girl refugees participated in leadership development workshops organized by WLP and its partners Machreq/Maghreb Gender Linking and Information Project (MACMAG GLIP) in Lebanon and the Women's Self-Promotion Movement (WSPM) in Zimbabwe. MACMAG GLIP and WSPM facilitated workshops that provided training in effective communication, collaborative decision-making, and techniques for articulating and developing individual and group projects. Working together in the workshop setting, diverse groups of refugee women learned to recognize their own leadership capabilities and empowered themselves to improve the quality of life in the refugee camps, enhance their status as refugees in their hosts countries, and address conflict resolution and peace-building in their home countries.
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Zimbabwe | Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women (Shamy-Arabic Edition) | Uongozi Bora: Kitabu Cha Mafunzo Ya Uongozi Kwa Wanawake (Leading to Choices Swahili Edition) | Zvinotungamira Mukusarudza Zvido Zvemadzimai (Leading to Choices Shona Edition) | Issue 6 (January) | Workshops )
WLP and BAOBAB Convene Learning Institute for Women's Leadership and Training of Trainers in Sub-Saharan Africa
Twenty-five women from eight African countries met in Calabar, Nigeria for the Africa Regional Learning Institute for Women's Leadership and Training of Trainers. Co-organized by Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) and BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights, the five-day Institute aimed to strengthen participants' capacity to become better trainers and advocates in empowering grassroots women to become effective decision-makers in their families, communities, and societies. Participants were from Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Among them were Vabah Gayflor, Minister of Gender and Development in Liberia, and Hafsat Abiola, President of the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy in Nigeria.
