Overall targets
Development objective: IYWD is a feminist social movement who challenge and participate in dismantling oppressive systems and institutions and thereby ensure equity in the treatment and participation of women and men.
Immediate targets
Objective 1: IYWD is a more united movement with a clear feminist strategy, which guides the members’ understanding of internal and external power dynamics and how to address these Objective 2: IYWD monitors the traditional courts in Mashonaland Central Province in order to promote accountability on women’s constitutional rights and influence the institutional structures of the traditional court system. Objective 3: IYWD target their campaign and advocacy efforts at the traditional court system for it to respect women’s constitutional rights.
Target groups
This intervention primarily targets the 2500 IYWD members, who are young women in the age of 15-35 years, living in farming, mining, and rural communities in the four districts of Mazowe, Shamva, Bindura and Guruve in Mashonaland Central Province. Many of the young women are working in the informal sector or with domestic tasks in male-headed households.
Resume
Indsatsen vil bygge videre på resultater opnået i samarbejdet mellem Institute for Young Women Development (IYWD) og Afrika Kontakt. IYWD er blevet en demokratisk kvindebevægelse, hvor de 2500 medlemmer selv deltager aktivt og tager initiativ til lobby og kampagneaktiviteter for at fremme deres rettigheder i et patriarkalsk og undertrykkende samfund. Denne indsats vil fortsætte med at styrke IYWD og deres medlemmer til at blive endnu bedre til at lave strategier for hvordan man påvirker og nedbryder undertrykkende strukturer i praksis. Desuden vil indsatsten via IYWD's egne medlemmer, og på deres egen opfordring, monitorere og udfordre det traditionelle retssystem. De traditionelle domstole er en hjørnesten i den zimbabweanske kvindeundertrykkelse, idet de domineres af mænd og ofte dømmer skævt til mænds fordel og dermed agerer i modstrid med kvinders forfatningsmæssige rettigheder.