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Last Week at a Glance - Issue 68
Women's Coalition
August 11, 2011

My Thoughts

Welcome to this week's edition of the WCoZ weekly bulletin. In this issue we take a look at the events that took place within our membership during the past week. The major highlights of this week's edition are the Bulawayo Leadership and Governance training that successfully took place in Bulawayo on the 3rd of August 2011 and the newly appointed Chapter Committee in Bulawayo, so put your feet up and enjoy our last week at a glance.

Mildred Sandi elected as the Chairperson for the WCoZ Bulawayo Chapter

The founder member and CEO for Diana Phalala Foundation also known as DP Foundation is the newly elected Bulawayo Chapter Chairperson. Speaking at after the elections, the WCoZ National Coordinator Netsai Mushonga congratulated Ms Mildred Sandi and pledged to support the new committee.

"The Secretariat is committed to work together with the new committee on the women's agenda" she pointed out after congratulating the chairperson and her committee.

The new chairperson asked God to chart the plan for the committee and committed to work together with the other committee members and work hard to ensure that women enjoy their rights.

The elections were conducted and presided by two neutral election officers Mrs Mashangwa , Mrs Ncube and the elections were attended by 50 participants drawn from organisations in Bulwayo.

The full committee members are:

Chairperson - Mildred Sandi - DP Foundation
Vice Chairperson - Mrs Bhebhe
Secretary - Mabel Moyo - Jekesa Pfungwa
Vice Secretary - Sipho Nsimbi
Widows and Single Parents Treasurer - Edina Mhlanga - YWCA
Committee Members - Fadzai Mundoza (ZWIDE) and Mrs Njini Ebilayo

Bulawayo Organisations receive training in Leadership and Governance

Sixty four directors and board members of women's non-governmental organisations in Bulawayo were trained in leadership and governance through one of WCoZ Capacity Strengthening initiatives on the 3rd of August 2011.

Facilitated by Thembi Mpofu, the objective of the workshop was to share best practices in governance and human resources issues in organsations and sharing common issues and problems. The workshop's agenda was to structure and role of the board (providing strategic direction to the organization); principles of Cooperate Governance (leadership, board appointment, compliance, accountability etc) and common governance issues such ineffectiveness and incompetency.

As way forward, the Jekesa Pfungwa Vulinqondo Director Mrs Mabel Moyo thanked WCoZ for affording the Bulawayo women's NGOs the opportunity to be trained in leadership and governance and looked forward to many more trainings in the province from WCoZ.

Peace Building Project Update

The WCoZ Bindura and Gweru Chapters fruitfully convened consultative meetings with the Members of Parliament from the Mashonaland Central Province and Midlands Provinces respectively on engaging women in peacebuilding processes on the 5th of August 2011.

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