AWLN_Zim

The webinar was rescheduled 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

Please kindly register via the link below and circulate

New Date: *29th August 2024*
Time: *2PM WAT*

Registration Link: https://unwomen.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zaarmAyVSKaU94lg5z6_zA

Arc. Lola Ibrahim, mnia
WPS CLUSTER COORDINATOR
AWLN Nigeria
African Women Leaders Network - Sierra Leone AWLN_Zim AWLN_Ghana AWLN_Gambia AWLN BENIN Réseau des Femmes Leaders Africaines - AWLN-Tunisie African Union ECOSOCC UN Women UN Women Nigeria UN DGC Civil Society Unit United Nations Foundation UNFPA Nigeria

Standing up for women’s rights is more important than ever.
This let’s accelerate progress &
Happy International Women's Day from the AWLN_Zim Chapter

Born , Toni Morrison was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

Today we thank her for breaking through barriers and showing us what is all about.

The African Women Leaders Network would like to congratulate Ms. Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda who had been appointed as the new UN Women Deputy Executive Director for Normative Support. We would like to extend our best wishes in the fulfilment of your new role.

Intergenerational mentorship falls in line with the AWLN_Zim Network’s efforts to sustain the women’s movement within the country. In the AWLN Zimbabwe Chapter launched a Second Cohort of its Intergenerational Mentorship Programme. At present the programme has capacitated eighty-seven (87) women on Activism and Advocacy, Business Leadership and Political Leadership. A key innovation under the programme was the development of an AWLN_Zim owned Intergenerational Mentorship Manual. A short video on the programme launch can be accessed here: https://youtu.be/Flf1dPo7LIY

The African Women Leaders Network (AWLN) Zimbabwe Chapter also hosted its first ever High-Level Intergenerational Regional Dialogue and Solidarity Forum on Women’s Political Participation under the AWLN Governance Pillar Mid-2023. The event was attended by the President’s office, Dignitaries, Representatives of the SADC Parliamentary Forum, Senior Members of the AWLN Network, Representatives of the African Union, Civil Society, Youth Parliament, Academia and the Media and resulted in: 1.Reaffirmation of commitment by multiple stakeholders, donors and the Government of Zimbabwe towards the promotion of women’s leadership and political participation.
2. Global, regional and country level experience-sharing among women leaders on WPP.
3. Wide coverage and awareness raising on women’s equal political participation and a peaceful violent free election, through media coverage on national television and radio.-A press statement was also developed following the engagements during high-level dialogue and solidarity forum.
4.Capturing of recommendations to promote young women’s leadership and political participation within the country.

The AWLN_Zim Chapter contributed towards the development of an Advocacy Brief on disability inclusion in democratic spaces for women with disabilities (WWD), by conducting a consultative engagement with key disability-inclusion stakeholders. The brief will be used by AWLN Zimbabwe Chapter in 2024 to lobby and advocate for equal participation, representation, and inclusion of women with Disabilities (WWD) in politics.

As part of efforts to plan, stategise and hold discussions towards bettering the Network’s operations, governance and national engagement within the country, the AWLN_Zim Chapter holds a stategizising retreat each year. This key retreat has enabled the Chapter members to interact and engage around the mandate of the Network, innovate and proffer recommendations for greater impact of work.

To engage women leaders at grassroots level, the AWLN Zimbabwe Chapter continues to decentralise its mandate at Provincial Level. In 2023, an AWLN Provincial Chapter was successfully launched in Mashonaland East. At present the AWLN_Zim Chapter has established 3 Provincial Chapters.
A video covering the launch event can be accessed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OihmLOdDEV8