Summit 2018 - Mhondoro-Ngezi Rural District Council COE

Located in the Mashonaland West Province. The Council’s area of jurisdiction covers 9327,41km and comprised of 2 sub-offices namely Turf and Kadoma. It is made up of 16 wards categorized as follows; Communal, Resettlement schemes, peri-urban and Large commercial farms. Mhondoro Ngezi Rural District Council Head Office is at Mamina Growth Point.Mhondoro-Ngezi Rural District Council has a gender policy which guides gender activities. The council has 16 councillors (14 male and 2 female). The council has 6 committees and none are chaired by women. Regards to women’s participation in council activities 51-75% of women in Mhondoro-Ngezi participate in women’s day celebrations; water point committes and ward field days.Mhondoro-Ngezi RDC has a staff complement of 178 employees, of whom only 40 are women. Women constitute only 42% of management (5 out of 12 managers). Mhondoro-Ngezi RDC has an Accountant, Lands officer and the Engineer occupying non-traditional. Zimbabwe by law prescribes a paid maternity leave of three months thus Mhondoro-Ngezi provisions for it. The council also has a provision for paternity leave of 1 month. The council does has a sexual harassment policy through which cases of sexual harassment are dealt with. Mhondoro-Ngezi has disability-friendly access to public toilets in the council’s jurisdiction.Mhondoro-Ngezi 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	$31 800	$31 000
Resources allocated to promoting gender equality in decision-making and public participation	$31 800	$31 000
Resources allocated to promoting gender equality/family friendly/ youth and disability friendly policies and practices	$31 800	$31 000
Resources allocated to gender-responsive local economic development	$27 000	$27 000
Resources allocated to promoting gender/youth/PWD responsive projects on climate change	$6 000	$6 000
Resources allocated to promoting gender/ youth and disability friendly infrastructure and social development policies and practices	$53 000	$20 000
Resources allocated to promoting gender/ youth and disability friendly SRHR, HIV and AIDS programmes	$6 000	$5 200
Resources allocated to ending gender violence	$6 000	$6 000
Resources allocated to visibility for the Council’s Gender Action Plan	$4 800	$4 800
Resources allocated to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning for the Council’s Gender Action Plan	$4 800	$4 800

In the area of local economic development Mhondoro-Ngezi Rural District Council has partnered with ZIMPLATS, a local mining company for the establishment of fisheries and irrigation scheme in silverstar. The company finances the scheme.Click here to read more about Mhondoro-Ngezi Rural District Council.