Summit 2018 - Zibagwe Rural District Council

Located in the Midlands Province. Zibagwe Rural District Council is a rural local government arm in Kwekwe District. It was formed from the amalgamation of the former Kwekwe Rural Council and the Mashambazhou District Council in 1993.

Zibagwe Rural District Council has a draft gender policy which guides gender activities. The council has 33 councillors (29 male and 4 female). The council has 6 committees and 2 are chaired by women. Regards to women’s participation in council activities 76-100% of women in Zibagwe participate in public meetings.

Zibagwe RDC has a staff complement of 38 employees, of whom only 13 are women. Women constitute only 25% of management (2 out of 8 managers). Zimbabwe by law prescribes a paid maternity leave of three months thus Zibagwe provisions for it. The council has no provision for paternity leave. The council does not have a sexual harassment policy and cases of sexual harassment are addressed through the council code of conduct. Zibagwe has disability-friendly access to its main office entrance.

Zibagwe Rural District Council allocates a budget to gender-related projects, between 2016 and 2017 as below:

Category	Budget 2016	Budget 2017
Resources allocated to gender policy process and action planning	$150	$764
Resources allocated to promoting gender equality in decision-making and public participation	$764	$7 576
Resources allocated to promoting gender equality/family friendly/ youth and disability friendly policies and practices	$600	$4 520
Resources allocated to gender-responsive local economic development	$4 520	$4 520
Resources allocated to promoting gender/youth/PWD responsive projects on climate change	$50 000	$200 220
Resources allocated to promoting gender/ youth and disability friendly infrastructure and social development policies and practices	$200	$764
Resources allocated to promoting gender/ youth and disability friendly SRHR, HIV and AIDS programmes	$600	$4 520
Resources allocated to ending gender violence	$300	$764
Resources allocated to visibility for the Council’s Gender Action Plan	$300	$764
Resources allocated to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for the Council’s Gender Action Plan	-	-

In the area of local economic development Zibagwe Rural District Council has allocated 99% of market stalls to women, 90% of flea markets to women. Women, men and youth have

also been trained in mushroom growing.

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