(Suitable for constituency level)By

Slyvia ChirawuNational Coordinator

WLSA Zimbabwe sly@wlsazim.co.zw

Ask questions about the responsibilities, activities, interests and priorities of women and men and how their experience of problems may differ.

- Reporting GBV- Differences in trends of reporting- Why the differences? - Use of the law - 2

Question assumptions about “ families”, “households” or “people” that maybe implicit in the way a problem is posed or a policy is formulated.

- What makes women and men react the way they do to gender based violence ?

- Who makes decisions in the family or household?

- How are resources used at household level? - Are resources a source of violence ? - 3

Obtain the data or information to allow the experiences and situation of both women and men to be analysed.

- Who are the major perpetrators of GBV? - Who are the major victims of GBV? - What are the reasons for the differences , i.e

why is one group the major perpetrators and why is the other group the major victims?

- Monitoring and evaluation of GBV- 4

Seek the inputs and views of women as well as men about decisions that will affect the way they live

- Use the participatory approach to make sure that views of women and men on GBV are taken into account.

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Ensure that activities where women are numerically dominant receive attention.

- Economic empowerment maybe a strategy of combating gender based violence, if women have more choices, they will be able to better protect themselves from violence ( but not all)

- Ensure that women’s role in the informal sector and IGP receives attention

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Avoid assuming that all women or all men share the same needs and priorities

- Differences relating to class, race, religion, economic status

- Women are not homogenous- What are the different needs and priorities of women - GBV – What are the priorities for women and men, e.g

is it prevention, protection, access to justice, shelter, economic opportunities , access to decision making?

- Needs assessment so that interventions are meaningful 7

Analyse the problem or issue and proposed policy or legal options for implications from a gender perspective and seek to identify means of formulating directions that support an equitable distribution of benefits and opportunities.

- Given the gender differences and inequalities, it cannot be assumed that women and men will have equal opportunities for participating or will benefit equally from development inputs. Special attention is needed to ensure that initiatives are not assumed to affect all people in the same manner, as this could unintentionally increase gender inequality.

- This involves assessing potential impact

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Design Implementation

Monitoring and evaluation

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Raising awareness on gender Taking bills and proposed policies to the

people Setting up resource centers in

Constituencies Building our own capacities e.g gender

budgeting skills Celebrating important days e.g IWD, 16

days, Rural women’s day, World AIDS day 10