2015 SADC GENDER PROTOCOL SUMMIT AND AWARDS

CENTRES OF EXCELLENCELOCAL GOVERNMENT

INSTITUTIONAL APPLICATIONThis award recognises progress in mainstreaming gender the local government, and Media Centres of Excellence. Use this form to do your institutional profile as part of your application process. The application must be accompanied by evidence to support all application form.

ALL FIELDS ARE COMPULSORY.

THIS PART OF THE APPLICATION WILL BE UPLOADED ONLINE

Name of good practice Kadoma City Council unifying our efforts on Gender Equality

SCORE CARD AND EVIDENCE TABLE

Please fill in progress on your score card from last year, and update the evidence. Judges will assess the progress you have made. Their score will be final.

Please upload your completed score card on the online application in the section called supporting documentation. Please name your score card as follows Councilname _country_scorecard_your initials_date.

Please use this section to list the evidence that goes with your score card. Upload evidence on the online application in the section called supporting documentation.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT EVIDENCE UPLOADED – PLEASE RECORD FILE NAMES

Policy framework Gender policy, action plan, GBV action plan (a)Governance Sex disaggregated data on the council (b)Mainstreaming gender into existing programmes

Same file (c)

Procurement Procurement notices giving preferences to women or inviting them to apply/ training etc (d)

Climate change and sustainable development

Any evidence of how gender is being integrated into these projects, especially sex disaggregated statistics, eg allocation of housing stands (e)Land and housing

Water and sanitation Environmental health HIV and AIDS and care work Social development Gender specific projects Gender based violence Others

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT EVIDENCE UPLOADED – PLEASE RECORD FILE NAMES

Employment PracticesSelection and recruitment Job adverts encouraging women or men to apply

where they are under-represented Capacity building Evidence of gender training at different levels and

sex disaggregated statistics to accompany this. (g)Working conditions and environment

Examples of how gender awareness is affecting and improving the work place

Gender Management System Gender structures Evidence of the gender structures that have been put

in place – for example and organisational chart; minutes of meetings.

Budgets Your council budget showing specific allocations for gender work, as well as how gender is being mainstreamed into all budgets. (h)

Monitoring and evaluation Your score card and or any other evidence of how you are going about gender mainstreaming. (i)

Resource mobilisation for work on gender equality Amount local currency (specify)

Amount in Rand

Gender specific allocation – gender mainstreaming

US$3000 R30 000

Gender in mainstream projects (please specify) Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Project –WASH project –Germany Agro Action

US$415 000 R4 510 000

Girl’s Hostel project - GIZ US $11 000 R110 000New Dumpsite-GIZ US$317 000 R3 170 000Operation Flourian -UK US$10 000 R100 000Heavy duty equipment - GIZGlobal Fund US$35 500 R355 000In kind contributions to the COE process – eg venues (please specify) Anglicacan Hall - -Rimukaka Stadium - -Funds raised from donors or the private sector for gender work – (please specify) Gender Links US1000 R10 000German Agro Action (women’s day celebrations)

US $200 R2000

TOTAL US$782 700 R7 827 000

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THIS WORD DOCUMENT WILL BE UPLOADED TO THE WEBSITE 1. INSTITUTIONAL PROFILE

COUNTRY ZIMBABWECOUNCIL KADOMA CITYGENDER CHAMPION Rumbidzai MuparutsaGENDER FOCAL PERSON

MS MATTIE DHLIWAYO

Baseline score (2013) 53.2Progress Score (2014) 52Latest score (2015) 70Attitude score –baseline Attitude score – follow up

Women Men Total % Women Council 80 186 266 30Management 6 11 17 35Council staff overall 86 197 283 30Population served 96 196Key characteristics

SynopsisSum up the situation of the Council – how far has it come, how far has it progressed, what evidence is there of change. If possible begin with an anecdote that demonstrates this change. - 300 words

Key objectives

To improve water supply coverage from 50-65 % by December 2015 To improve waste management from 8-20% by December 2015 To improve roads and public lighting infrastructure from 35-40% by

December 2015 To increase housing stock from 13 332to 13 532 by December 2015 To increase access to Primary Health Care services from 10-155 by

December 2015 To increase solid waste management from 50-60% by December 2015 To improve revenue collection of council from 30-40% by December

2015

Background

Before the COE, The City Council used to work closely with ZWRSN and WIPSU in the gender activities. Council management and the policy makers went through gender mainstreaming and budgeting process. Women’s day activities were being commemorated and were wholly funded by council. WIPSU through UCAZ worked on capacitating all the female councillors. Gender issues were not well understood and there was no council’s gender policy. There was little or no activities on gender issues unlike in the previous 4 years. There is now more stakeholder participation and policy makers were not involved as they do

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currently. After working with Gender Links there has been a marked improvement with council management getting involved. Gender focal persons were chosen from all the departments and now we have a Gender committee in place although yet to start meetings. The gender desk is working closely with the Ministry of Women’s Affairs and Gender Development. The Council’s Integrated Performance Agreement plan has to have some gender activities as per the Local Government requirements.

Key activities

Please list at least five in bullet form – 500 words Provision of potable water Environmental and Personal Health Housing and stand allocation Street and public lighting Roads rehabilitation and maintenance Community service and public amenities Fire and rescue service Security services Revenue generation and collection

Resource allocations

Local currency Rands Council allocations to gender-specific projects

US$3000 R30 000

Council allocations to gender in mainstream projects

>US$1000 000

>R10 000 000

In –kind support to the COE process US1200 R12000

ChallengesPoor revenue collectionSalary delaysPoor service provisionLack of adequate resources for service provisionPublic do not appreciate gender issuesFew women in council decision making positions

Results (Please fill in what is relevant to your COE)

Women’s empowerment

Among those who show cased at the summit, majority were womenThere Is an MP selected under the women’s quarter for Kadoma CentralThere has been some training of 25 Gender based survivors on entrepreneurial skills Women now take gender issues seriously as evidenced by their attendance at both the 16 days f activism and the international womens day.

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Evidence

“ I am grateful and owe council so much for who I am today, I was just a secretary in the housing who happened to benefit from the women quarter system. I am happy that the legacy of women empowerment still is carried on and will not hesitate to attend once invited womens’ activities.” MP Joanna Tsogolani-Kadoma

Men for change

The Chief Security Officer for Kadoma has helped train female municipal officers and on this recruitment there were more females than males see pass out parade pictures. Cllr I.B Nhamo of ward 13 was involved in the junior councillor issues and is now an advocate of the children. As a teacher, he is organising training of other teachers in Rimuka to champion the children’s issues. Junior councillor is suppose to work alongside the senior council and their concerns and their issues are supposed to be tabled in council committees and they are supposed to attend full council meetings

Evidence ” I am grateful for the opportunity accorded to me by NANGO and UNICEF as this has helped me to appreciate children’ s issues. I have been a teacher for the past 20 years and never respected children. I don’t know the female junior councillor in my ward but will promise you from this workshop, I will work closely with her” Coucillor I. B. Nhamo ward 13 Rimuka

Changes at household level

There is a vibrant cobra making project by both women and men in most high density surburbs. They are involved in money clubs which help them to send their children to school. The project was started by Tsungirirayi group and latter left for the community to run the project

Evidence “Tsungirirai group has helped us with seed money to start this income generating project in August 2014. Now we are involved in Mukambo (money club) and have been able to fend for our families and pay council bills. We have also taken on board child headed families and the elderly. Initial it was a sustainable project but do to the economic hardships being encounters people no longer view buying cobra as a priority. We also sell our commodity on account to our regular customers” Mrs Senzeni Shawarira Committee member of the project

Changes in attitudesBoth men and women are actively involved in clean up campaigns as a result of COE work. Due to on going campaigns men have now taken up the exercise seriously. The exercise is ward based and is fast becoming a routine. School children are also involved in tree planting and also take the initiative seriously. Tree planting target for 2015 according to the Housing and Community service depart is 1500. For January 479 trees were planted.

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Evidence Please provide at least one quote that demonstrates changes in attitudes. Please remember name, surname, organisation and designation. “Our council is involved in many activities run by management and we look forward to working with them. As the future leaders of tomorrow we are happy to learn from our seniors. We also are proving a point that we are not bad kids after all” Tafara Pasipanodya M 26years Junior Town Clerk.

Changes at the work placeDue to the COE work, we have seen a lot of changes at the work place. Some refuse collectors who have been studying to acquire enough ‘O’ level passes have been promoted and trained as Municipal Police. Some ladies who were street cleaners have under gone a 4 weeks training with Red Cross and are now in maternity ward as Nurse Aides. Even their grades have been elevated. Council have also formed community groups as a way to cut cost and encourage community ownership. Currently there 12 groups involved in different activities like Street cleaning, repairing of bore holes, unblocking sewer lines,refuse collection, Manning of pay toilets, roads maintenance, and cleaning of clinics. A senior female clerk was elevated from the engineering to the town clerks’ officer. This post comes with a lot of responsibility and accountability.

Evidence “This office receives a lot of visitors both from within and outside Kadoma requiring good customer care. There is a lot to be done and alertness is one of the principles of my profession. My diary is like a bible which has to be up to date so as to miss appointments. I am the first one in the office and the last to leave on a daily basis” Mrs Jane Chigumira. Executive Assistant

Service delivery

All departments have made and are making effort to improve service delivery against all odds. The Council Integrated Performance Agreement plan makes it mandatory for gender activities to included council and town clerks will be rated on this activity. The engineering department prioritised water provision and partnered GIZ and increased water pumps from 2 to 4. The council to reduce water loss, installed some water meters in some suburbs and the project is ongoing. Roads rehabilitation has been going on albeit at a slow pace due to resource constraints. Community groups have been formed to work on sewerage unblocking and clearingThe Health department is working on 2 major projects. This will go a long way in changing the lives of the community. The Girl’s hostel toilets were recently commissioned together with some shower rooms in ward 7. The place was known for flying toilet at night. The Ngezi WASH project will see the revamping of the communal toilets and provision of piped water to the suburb. The new state of the council’s dumpsite which will benefit the community through recycling of material is underway. The government also rolled out and decentralised the OI/ART programme. All council clinics are now having the Option B+ programme where pregnant women benefit. Laboratory services have been introduced although yet to be fully equipped The housing department is working on a new housing stands in Ngezi. Five thousands high density stands will be serviced and priority will be given to those

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on the housing waiting list.Community amenities will be revamped and some privatised.

Evidence “ Ever since I began residing at the girls hostel we would the toilet in the cover of darkness and it was not healthy as we used all kinds of plastics for the disposal of feaces. Now we can dispose or feaces in a human way and our children will also appreciate the proper way to dispose stools. We were also afraid a cholera outbreak would wipe us all at the hostel” Talent Chipanga Girl’s hostel resident at the commissioning of the block of toilets

“ With the decentralization of Antiretroviral drugs I no longer have sleepless nights as I used to experience in the past because I used to collect my medicines at Father O Hare hospital in Zvimba district. I would struggle to raise the transport fees to and from the place”. Tambudzai Munemo, Rimuka, PLWHA.

I am grateful to council for the provision of water in Rimuka this year, I last saw water coming from our taps almost 10 years ago. I never thought we would ever see water coming out and some of my children have started to see water coming out for the first time. It would give me the strength to pay my water bills unlike what used to happened in the past where we were forced to pay for a service not offered” Chamunorwa Zuze, Rimuka resident ward 5,

Public participationWard based meeting are carried out on a monthly basis with management free to attend. The residents also actively take part in the budget consultative meetings where women are the majority of the attendees. Public Health events and commemorations also take place as per the Health calendar. National immunization days are well attended and at the end of the years children from the ages 2-15 years benefitted from the Mass Drug Administration program where they were being given anti worm medicines

Evidence “ The advantage of an urban community is that they easily accept most of the health programmes. There is no red tape and suspicion from the event. You get extreme cases of denial from those in the low density suburbs who are in the minority” District Nursing Officer Rosemary Banda Sanyati District .

Outreach through the media During the International women’s day commemoration a news report from the print media was invited. At the handover ceremony for wheel chairs donated by a concerned Kadoma resident a newspaper reporter was also in attendance and the article was published in the Herald newspaper. There is need to actively engage the print and electronic media for most of our events.

Evidence

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Changes at a policy level that have come about as a result of the COE workSixteen work place peer educators from all the council departments were trained by FACT in conjunction with GIZ. Among those trained is the Chamber Secretary for the City Council. HIV and AIDS stakeholder meetings were convened. The council went through Integrated Result Based Management trainings and all departmental heads are rfrequired to produce contract agreements to the local government ministry.

Evidence All departments are required on an annual basis to come up with Departmental Integrated Performance Agreement plans extracted from the council plan. The appraisal to be done from all council plans and this will determine ones remuneration.

Any other changes that have come about as a result of the COE workA total of 25 Gender Base Violent survivors were recruited and trained by Gender links on entrepreneurial skills. They will benefit from a Netone project if council offers them free rental space. More males and councillors have an appreciation of gender issues at work and at home. Women now take up jobs that were previously male dominated, e.g roads maintanance

Evidence An I story from one of the gender based survivors.( Names and age of the survivor have been changed for confidentiality reasons)

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My name is Sylvia Chimuti I am aged 42years and l got married in 1990 and have been

married for 17 years. My husband was an illegal gold panner and we would buy and sell the

gold. We then bought property which included houses and cars.

In 2004 my husband started being promiscuous and he would physically abuse me as well as

chasing me away from the house. It even went further as he would bring his girlfriends at

home and order me to wait on them, which was dehumanizing and the highest form of

disrespect.

He went on to sell all the property which included a house and all the cars and we were left

with the house that l am now staying in with our children. He continued to physically abuse

me and he was threatening to sell the house we are left with. But l managed to stop him with

the help of the courts to stop him from selling it. Though l frequently reported him to the

police l could not get the help l wanted as he continuously bribed the police.

He went away for three years now and l do not know where he was staying and he no longer

slept with me. He then started coming every end of month to collect the monthly rentals that l

collect from the tenants so as to get revenue to take care of our kids. He claims that he is

entitled to the money so that he can take care of his other kids with the girlfriend that he is

staying with.

He did not divorce me but at the same time he is acting like we are not married. He does not

even care about the children and when he comes he wants to fight everyone. The other time

he came home he threw a pot of hot sadza in my face and l got badly burnt. Our children are

happy if he does not come home because when he does he is always physically abusing me.

Lesson learned and innovation Sensitisation of council workers needs to be done until every worker

understands gender issues to avoid stereotypes. There is need to come up with a well structure program on gender Budgets needs to clearing outline where gender mainstreaming is and

tracking of the process done To improve gender issues with all stakeholders e.g. residents and in

schools Most women in council are taking up previously male dominated

professions e.g refuse truck drivers, sewer unblocking and roads rehabilitation

Most residents understands and can now easily identify GBV and report it to the relevant authorities

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Clean up campaigns unity the community for a common cause, that of disease free environment

Most women utilise the OI/ART service and are always are receptive to be screened for health related conditions than their male counterparts

Learning and sharing with other councilsDue to budgetary constraints, as a COE we did not do what we had planned to do. We had intended to make visit to about 3 to 4 other COEs but ended up making on visit. Mutare City management team visited Kadoma City as they were establishing their gender desk. In return our council visited Mutare city to learn more about the plastic paper recycling project. Bulawayo city visit was specifically for

Evidence “We have been on a whirlwind tour tour of city councils and let me admit that as a city we have a lot to do, this is not child’s play and require commitment from everyone at council. As we go back we will give feed back to council and please bear with us if others in council (councillors decide to come and learn for themselves”. Mr Godwin Chinake Mutare City Finance Department.

Sustainability and replication Seriously pursue the issue of a Gender committee which meets bi monthly

and report activities to council. Capacity build other council workers on gender issues Work together with other gender based organizations e.g. MOWGD and

the ZRP Carry out periodic mini surveys on GBV to assess progress To have a well spelt out gender action plan To do exchange visits with other local authorities and exchange notes and

ideas Work closely with the junior council for the eradication of GBV in the long

run Engage both the print and electronic media and show case success Empower women through entrepreneurial skills

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