Zimbabwe Compendium of Spotlight Initiative Programme
Achievements, Lessons, Innovations, Promising & Good Practices and Recommendations
Highlights
Zimbabwe is one of the eight countries in Africa which benefitted from the Spotlight Initiative (SI) programme, a transformative initiative launched in September 2017, by the EU and the UN partnership to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls worldwide. The SI aimed at mobilising commitment of political leaders and contributing to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); ending all forms of violence against women and girls, targeting those that are most prevalent and contribute to gender inequality across the world. The overall vision of the SI in Zimbabwe was that women and girls realize their full potential in a violence-free, gender-responsive and inclusive Zimbabwe.
In June 2023, through a competitive process, Primson Management Services was selected to produce a compendium of the Programme achievements, lessons, innovations, promising and good practices and recommendations for gender-based violence (GBV) programming, the possibility of Spotlight 2.0 and/or sustaining the gains of spotlight with future funding. 1 This was done across the SI’s six outcome areas (1. Laws and Policies; 2. strengthening institutions; 3. prevention and social norms; 4. delivery of quality essential services; 5. data availability and capacities and 6. supporting the women’s movement) in the 5 programme provinces (Matabeleland South, Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Manicaland Province and Harare Province). The objectives of the Compendium are to synthetise, document and compile successes, good practices and lessons learnt, and to document and share interventions that provide innovative and promising approaches and good practices. Its scope includes the key institutions, policy and legal frameworks for ending VAWG, partnerships and coordination, and some cross cutting issues i.e., gender equality; human rights; disability; humanitarian settings; and emergencies. The Spotlight’s principles of leaving no one behind, UN Reform, ensuring ‘no harm’, and meaningful partnerships (particularly with civil society, and local and grassroots groups) were captured throughout the report. The beneficiary groups targeting by this research are women and girls living in the rural areas; women and girls in the most impoverished communities in Epworth and Hopley in Harare; women and girls with disabilities;
