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Poor service delivery affect women's participation in development
01 Jun 2017 at 09:03hrs | Views
Poor service delivery in Umzingwane area has been blamed for scuttling women's participation in development programmes.
The programmes are said to be dominated by men amid concerns from the women that they are being left out in the programmes.
A Civic organisation Habakkuk Trust recently conducted a gender and advocacy capacity building workshop in the ward 9 where it observed that women constitute less than 25% of the membership of Village Development Committees, about 12% of membership of the Neighborhood Watch and 0% in membership of Assessors in Village Courts according to its report.
Hubakkuk Trust stated that the only structures where women were represented fairly were the School Development Committees and Village Health Workers where representation is 42% and 71% respectively.
According to the trust Ward 9 Councillor Ms Sikhululiwe Ndlovu encouraged the Action Team to seriously pursue gender advocacy to ensure that in all village and ward service delivery structures where males are dominating, women are also incorporated.
"The Constitution needs to be implemented by everyone including us in the villages. Now that we know and have seen that women are not represented, we need to ensure that we correct it so that we do not violate women's rights. We need development and service delivery issues that responds to the needs and concerns of women," she said.
According to the trust Councilor Ndlovu further challenged the men in the workshop and the traditional leaders to reform themselves and accept the inclusion of women in community decision and development structures.
The programmes are said to be dominated by men amid concerns from the women that they are being left out in the programmes.
A Civic organisation Habakkuk Trust recently conducted a gender and advocacy capacity building workshop in the ward 9 where it observed that women constitute less than 25% of the membership of Village Development Committees, about 12% of membership of the Neighborhood Watch and 0% in membership of Assessors in Village Courts according to its report.
According to the trust Ward 9 Councillor Ms Sikhululiwe Ndlovu encouraged the Action Team to seriously pursue gender advocacy to ensure that in all village and ward service delivery structures where males are dominating, women are also incorporated.
"The Constitution needs to be implemented by everyone including us in the villages. Now that we know and have seen that women are not represented, we need to ensure that we correct it so that we do not violate women's rights. We need development and service delivery issues that responds to the needs and concerns of women," she said.
According to the trust Councilor Ndlovu further challenged the men in the workshop and the traditional leaders to reform themselves and accept the inclusion of women in community decision and development structures.
Source - Byo24News
