Campaigns
Local Campaigns
A widow’s day
commemoration was held in Bulawayo, and 48 widows and widowers attended the celebration of International Widows Day on June 23, 2023.The participants included key stakeholders, including the Ministry of Women Affairs, Community Small and Medium Enterprises Development. (MWACSMED), Bulawayo City Council Gender Office, Provincial Victim Friendly Unit (PVFU), Legal Resource Foundation, Clinical Psychologist, and Padare Counseling Department, just to mention a few. Informative lessons were shared touching on topics like widow empowerment through skills development, income-generating projects, inheritance issues, testate and intestate issues, how to deal with post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression, the Domestic Violence Act, Bulawayo City Council Services, and skills development courses, among others. Widows and widowers shared their challenges, which included livelihood issues, inheritance, dealing with relatives after the death of a spouse, and children demanding all inheritance from widows, among others. The ELCA Gender and Act Alliance projects helped to make this program possible.
Partner/ Networks
A thematic area on conflict preparedness and response systems is included in the current ECLF strategy document, and we are developing and testing a CEWERS model for use by researchers, practitioners, and other stakeholders. In order to increase the expertise of its practitioners, ECLF collaborated with the Zimbabwe National Defense University, which provides a CEWERS program, to hold a capacity development Workshop CEWERS. This customized workshop served as the foundation for a larger partnership between the academics and the peace practitioners to create praxis in this crucial field. Since the Zimbabwe National Defense University is a faculty member with expertise in this field, we firmly believe that it is a capable and strategic partner in the development of an efficient CEWER system. The workshop was specifically designed for the ECLF Secretariat, who also serve as community peace facilitators. It is intended that the knowledge and abilities acquired will be applied in the creation of a Training of Trainers program for the nation’s network of community facilitators.
The training’s outcomes were:
A deeper comprehension of CEWERS and practice in the context of Zimbabwe.
Improved abilities for early detection and reaction mechanism development.
Improved CEWER system knowledge and skills.
