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The
Women Leaders Conference 16-17 June 2005
Womens Coalition
May 10, 2005
Background
The
Women’s Coalition was formed in 1999 to educate and lobby for a
gender sensitive national constitution. Women from a diversity of
organizations and individuals come together and worked hard to run
one of the most extensive and effective campaign ever. Many people
believed this was the beginning of the women’s movement in the country.
However since
the period of the referendum in 2000, the Women’s Movement has found
itself facing tremendous challenges in its operating environment.
These challenges include a highly polarized operating environment,
high staff turnover, critical resource shortages and all this has
affected programme implementation and impact.
Brainstorming
meeting
In
September 2004, some major funding partners HIVOS, CIDA, SIDA, ZADF-PACT
met to discuss funding and technical support to shared partners
in the women’s movement. Upon realizing the enormity of the challenges
facing the movement a meeting of directors of the NGOs and funding
partners was set up. The meeting noted the decline in strength of
the women’s movement in Zimbabwe, and among other things made a
resolution to work with the Women’s Coalition towards revitalizing
the movement. A meeting of the Women’s Coalition leadership resolved
to hold the national Women’s Conference to bring women together
to deliberate on this process.
Objectives
of the NWC
The
NWC will bring together seventy (70) women from member NGOs, Chapters,
potential chapters, individual members and stakeholder like the
donor community.
- Deliberate
on our successes
- Review our
challenges in the last three years including funding and the NGO
Bill
- Identify
opportunities in the operating environment
- Design strategies
to manage our diversity
- Work towards
the creation of a mass movement of women
- Design strategies
for working with donors to encourage fairer funding practices
- Designed
strategies to make ourselves more effective and stronger
- Selection
of an Steering Committee for the Women’s Coalition
- Brainstorm
a broad agenda for the women’s movement in the next three years
Visit the Women's
Coalition fact
sheet
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