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Last Week at a Glance - Issue 63
Women's
Coalition
May 16, 2011
My Thoughts
Welcome to this
week's edition of our weekly bulletin. WCoZ is pleased to
announce that the constitution making process is now back on track
with the Thematic
Committees now meeting. However it seems most of the civic society
players were left out of the processes and political parties chose
their loyal members only. There are 17 thematic committees and originally
they were picking out constitutional issues and recording how often
they were coming out. WCoZ is carrying out a gender analysis of
the members of thematic committees. WCoZ and its membership are
also strategizing to ensure women effectively engage in the process.
Constitutional
Update
The third stage
in constitution making which is the meeting of the thematic committees
started at the beginning of May 2011. However last week progress
was stalled since political parties haggled and argued over the
use of quantitative or qualitative analysis of the data. The MDC
factions reported pulled out of the process and latter an amicable
solution was found to analyze the data using both qualitative and
quantitative methods.
The constitution
making process is increasing being the preserve of political parties
and questions are now being raised on the credibility of the process.
During the outreach process a sizable chunk of civic society players
took part and this was welcome, however the reduction of numbers
of civic society players is an issue of concern.
The thematic
committees are collating data to be used by the drafting experts
to a make a draft constitution and the process was expected to be
complete by the 20th of May 2011. Meanwhile, names of the constitution
thematic committee members who are compiling data have been kept
a secret but are now available after being approved by the Constitution
Management Committee. Efforts to get the names from COPAC have been
fruitless and WCoZ was referred to political parties for the names
they had submitted for thematic committees.
Last
Week at a Glance
Information
Management Training Workshop
30 participants
from the WCoZ membership attended the Information Management Workshop
which was held from the 28th - 29th of April 2011 at the Rainbow
Towers. The two day training session provided participants with
the following experiences:
- An understanding
of the information management concept.
- Identify
the steps in information life cycle management
- The management
of digital information
- A practical
session of setting up institutional memory for participants'
organisation
Topics covered
during the training included information management; knowledge management;
archives of Institutional Memory and the D Space which is an open
source platform which enables organisations to capture and describe
digital material using a variety of programmatic options.
The training
was in response to the need NGOs face due the advent of the knowledge
economy. Information Management is critical to both organizational
performance and the women's movement. The training was facilitated
by E-Knowledge for Women in Southern Africa (EKOWISA).
Young
Women's Forum
37 young women
attended the Young Women's Forum on Friday 6 May 2011 at the
Crowne Plaza to finalize the Terms of Reference for the Forum and
to vote for four more members to the WCoZ Young Women's Forum.
The meeting
gave members an opportunity to come up with a Work Plan for the
next 3 months and provided a space for the young women to interact
and network. The Young Women penciled the next three weekends for
visiting the under privileged in society. The first visit will be
Mashambanzou on the 7th of May, on the 14th of May they visited
St Giles and the 21st will be visiting the Teenage Mothers.
The WCoZ Young
Women's Forum's Committee now has 11 members and the
new members are Gamuchirai Mandangu from Women's
Action Group; Patricia Magorokosho from FAMWZ,
Tsitsi Mhlanga WiPSU
and Millicent Tanhira from GALZ.
The young women
are still appealing for donations from well wishers to give to the
needy. If you would like to donate please contact WCoZ on 775765
or send an email to coalition@zol.co.zw
or bring the donations to 9 Edmond Rd Belvedere.
Young
Women's Forum Outreach Projects
The young women
forum and the WCoZ Secretariat visited Mashambanzou Trust on the
7th of May 2011 and St Giles Rehabilitation. The Young Women's
Forum would like to thank all well wishers who donated in kind to
the worthy cause. On Saturday 14 May, the Forum spent the day with
13 children with disabilities from St Giles
Up Coming Events
The
Advisory Forum
Where? Holiday Inn
When? 20 May 2011
Time? 0730 - 0900hrs
Who is Invited? Mature and experienced women rights actvists
Agenda: Finalizing TOR and Advisory Committee
Female
Directors Forum
When? 24 May 2011
Where? Holiday Inn, Harare
Time? 0900hrs - 1230hrs
Who is invited? Strictly Female Directors only
WCoZ
Leadership and Governance Training Workshop x 2
When? 14 and 16 June (you can choose which day to attend)
Where? Crowne Plaza
Time? 0800hrs -1600hrs
Who is invited? Director and 2 board members to attend on any of
the
days.
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