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SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS REPORT
COUNTRY: ZIMBABWE
NAME OF MUNICIPALITY: MUNICIPALITY OF REDCLIFF
Synopsis
Municipality of Redcliff is aware of the regional, national and international commitments to
Gender and Development and has shown an interest on the production of a Gender Policy
by including the issue in the housing policy and the strategic plan.
Strengths
The Municipality of Redcliff appointed a Gender Focal Person to coordinate gender issues.
The focal person is in the decision making position to influence gender related decisions.
Gender Based Violence awareness to staff and management was carried out through
coordinated effort with MASO,CEISHAR and DAAC. Registration of library members and
deaths is gender aggregated.
Challenges
There is no gender policy and gender mainstreaming plan.
Results of gender score card
Area assessed Score
Council
Score GL Agreed score
Policy framework 0%
Governance 10%
Gender specific programmes 8%
Mainstreaming gender into
existing programmes
10%
Employment practises and
environment
15%
Gender management system 5%
Overall 48%
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SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS
POLICY FRAMEWORK
Council is aware of national, regional, international commitments that the country has made especially the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development and the National Gender Policy.
There is no Gender Policy.
GOVERNANCE
Representation
Designation Female Male Total
Councillors 2 7 9
Heads of Department
2 2 4
Middle managers 1 3 4
Committee Chairpersons
0 5 5
Mayor 0 1 1
Municipality of Redcliff has 9 Councillors. 2 are females and 7 are males.
There are four (4) Heads of Departments of which 2 are males and 2 are females.
All Council committees are chaired by males.
There is no gender balance and decisions are not gender balanced.
Participation
There is no equal participation in Council meetings, 2 female Councillors and 7 male Councillors.
The 3 women in management have an influence on decisions taken by the Council.
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Career pathing
Women and men are given equal opportunity for growth within the Council and have equal access to training and promotion opportunities. The Town Clerk (a female) was elevated from Deputy Town Treasurer to Town Treasurer and to the current post of a Town Clerk. The male Human Resources Officer was also elevated to the post of a Human Resources Manager.
Working conditions and environment
Council provides equal leave benefits for women and men. Women leave benefit include maternity leave.
There is no sexual harassment policy, but is provided in the Labour Act.
GENDER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Gender structures
Council has a Gender Focal Person but it does not have a structure and budget in place.
Gender is not written in the job descriptions and performance agreements of managers.
Budgets
Gender is not budgeted for in council.
Monitoring and evaluation
Service statistic is not disaggregated by sex.
Employment and procurement statistics are also not disaggregated by sex and no gender indicators have been put in place for planning and human resource management systems.
Political profile and champion
Gender issues have not yet been given a high political profile by the Council and not yet selected a political champion.
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EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES
Selection and recruitment
Municipality of Redcliff advertises its posts without discrimination and relevant applicants are selected through interviews and performance of each applicant determines selection. No discrimination is done on recruitment.
CATEGORY No of
women
% No of men %
Executive management-
e.g.-CEO,
1 100% 0 0%
Senior Management- e.g.-
Directors, Head of Units
1 33.3% 2 66.7.4%
Professional e.g.-Programme
Line Managers
1 25% 3 75%
Semi-Skilled- e.g.
Technicians, Plumbers
13 46.4% 15 53.6%
Secretarial 6 100% 0 0%
Unskilled -e.g.- Labours,
Cleaners
51 26.2% 144 73.8%
Total Number of Employees 73 30.8% 164 69.2%
Women and men are currently employed in each job and grade save for the Town Clerk and secretarial grade.
GRADE FEMALE MALE TOTAL
3 38 88 126
4 2 22 24
5 6 19 25
6 2 9 11
7 0 4 4
8 2 6 8
5
9 13 6 19
10 2 0 2
11 3 1 4
12 2 1 3
13 1 3 4
16 1 2 3
17 1 0 1
Total 73 164 237
There is no Gender Affirmative Action Policy.
Capacity building
Training is done but not in a systematic way.
Council does not keep sex and age data except at clinics, libraries and cemeteries where all
data is disaggregated.
Participation
There is no equal participation equally in Council meetings. Three (3) women on the management side and 2 female Councillors versus 5 males in management and 7 male Councillors.
The three 3 women in management make influencing decisions that can be taken through by Council.
Public participation
There is no equal participation of women and men at public meetings and events as more women participate in public meetings than men.
There is no gender balance at all community committees. An example is shown on the table below:
REDCLIFF CHILD PROTECTION COMMITTEES PRESENTED BY GENDER
WARD MALES % FEMALES %
1 0 0% 10 100%
2 0 0% 10 100%
3 2 20% 8 80%
4 3 30% 7 70%
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5 2 20% 8 80%
6 1 10% 9 90%
7 0 0% 10 100%
8 0 0% 10 100%
9 0 0% 10 100%
Total 8 8.9% 82 91.1%
PLANNING
Council plans do not target gender.
Strategic objectives of the Council are not gender explicit.
Information is collected during budget consultation meetings but the information is not gender explicit.
No gender indicators are included in all plans.
MAINSTREAMING GENDER INTO EXISTING PROGRAMMES
Local economic development
Council does not have a local economic development plan that targets women entrepreneurs as key beneficiaries. More women benefit from informal trading facilities in the Council. Out of 380 vendors 200 are women. There is no policy that regulates this.
Procurement
There is no procurement policy that sets targets for increasing the number of women.
Men benefit most than women.
Housing
There is no sex disaggregated data on title deeds on Gender is kept by Council.
Council has taken steps to ensure that women benefit equally from land and housing
opportunities by providing this in the housing policy ;clauses 8.3.2.2 to 8.3.2.3 quoted from
the housing policy below:
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8.3.2.2 In line with Government Policies on gender equity and sensitivity Redcliff
Municipality endeavours to have all residential persons stands
allocated to who are married to be allocated jointly in the name of
both spouses. This prevents the save of matrimonial home without
consent of both spouses. It should be noted that where a married
woman wishes to acquire a property in her own right, she should
not be prevented from doing so because of the one person stand
rule.
8.3.2.3 A single woman should not be discriminated against in the
allocation of residential stands.
Utilities
Council has no sex disaggregated data on who has access to basic services i.e. Male and female headed households.
The Director of Housing and Community Services is a woman and is involved in the planning, management and maintenance of Council facilities. This is done through allocation of Council housing units and enforcing of the Housing Policy.
Transport
Women are not consulted with regards to their transport needs.
Health
Health facilities are easily accessible to women and Council has 2 clinics and a Polyclinic that are strategically placed in each suburb. The average is 2 km to the closest clinic.
All Council clinics keep sex disaggregated data on HIV and AIDS. The statistics indicate that the figures of women are higher than that of men.
Gender awareness on HIV and AIDS is done every time at clinics, in the community and Municipality staff are educated on HIV/AIDS and Gender Violence in conjunction with National Aids Council and District Aids Action Committee. Fliers are at client’s disposal at clinics and in Municipal offices. Council is also working with Midlands Aids Society Organisation (MASO) and Centre for Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS (CESHAR) on behaviour change and education and treatment on HIV AIDS.
PEP is available at all health facilities and information is shared to the community during health education sessions and victim friendly meetings.
Environmental health
Women are consulted in the management of waste. This is done through ward level clean up awareness campaigns and door to door visits by Council health staff.
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Both men and women benefit from solid waste management when they take part in waste separation and selling of separated material.
HIV and AIDS and care work
No HIV and AIDS policy is available but Council has been working with National AIDS Council and District AIDS Action Committee on HIV programmes. This covers prevention, treatment and care.
Messages include the importance of equal power relations between women and men, Gender Based Violence, Impact of multiple concurrent partners and prevention of parent to child transmission.
Council is actively involved in promoting Voluntary Counselling and testing at clinics and has outreach points that are friendly to the participation of men and the turn out is higher at these outreach point that are situated at business centres.
Women and men access treatment equally though men always prefer to be treated where they are not known. Men are encouraged to go for treatment.
Care givers are supported through workshops and coordination with Council clinics on care giving. Assessment of home based care patients is also done by Council staff.
Men are encouraged to be involved in care work but only a few are willing.
Climate change and sustainable development
Council is aware of climate change and its effects. These are droughts, floods and effects of air pollution.
Council is a member to the Disaster Preparedness Committee chaired by the District Administrator which sources food to mitigate on food shortages. It also monitors industries to avoid air pollution and carry out reforestation.
These measures are not gender aware.
Social development
Council keep sex and age disaggregated data at clinics, death registers and in libraries.
GENDER SPECIFIC PROGRAMMES
Council is in conjunction with other stakeholders like District AIDS Action Committee and Centre for Sexual Health and HIV AIDS Research Zimbabwe (CeSHHAR) carried out gender specific programmes on GBV programmes, Community Mobilization etc.)
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Educare
No assessment of the need for child care facilities was done.
Gender based violence (GBV) flagship
Council does not have an action plan and budget for addressing GBV.
Prevention
There was no audit conducted to ascertain whether the city/town/ village is a safe place for women, i.e. to walk around safely at night and in the day.
Lighting on streets is partial as some streets do not have street lights.
Streets are partially named.
Public transport is safe for women and children as the dropping centres are within the suburbs.
Public awareness campaigns
Council in conjunction with MASO and DAAC carried out an awareness campaign workshop on gender based violence (GBV) and the participants were all Council employees, stakeholders, Councillors and management but did not carry out the Sixteen days of activism.
Response and coordination
Council does not have up to date crime statistics disaggregated by sex.
Working relationship between the police and community, especially women is good.
Support
Council has no victim support/ empowerment programmes (VEP).
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Attachments
1.Women are consulted through clean up activities
Municipality of Redcliff
CLEAN UP CAMPAIGN REPORT-2013
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Councillors and residents in action.
MUNICIPALITY OF REDCLIFF
1. Background Introduction
Clean up Campaign is an event which is observed in line with Sanitation Week
commemorated in the second week of September every year. During this period the
community and stakeholders dedicate their time cleaning their town. This is done
through speeches and use of health education materials. Redcliff Municipality that has a
population of 35 950 inhabitants and a minimum of four hundred households have
been participating in these events annually. This year the activity was carried out from
19th to the 1st March. A commemoration was done to mark the end of the Clean up
Week. Illegal dump clearing, street cleaning and grass cutting was done as shown on
the tables, photos and graph. Women participation was also realized as 79.3%
compared to the number of men who participated.
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An amount of $1 500 was received through the help of UCAZ and a total of $150 was
donated by Zimchem and Oliken. The amount was used to purchase logistics material
and food see annexure.
Majority of participants were women.
2.PLANNED ACTIVITIES AND OUTCOMES
A list of activities were in place which had targets to be met.
a) Awareness campaign meetings
Three awareness campaign meetings were done with the aim of introducing the
programme to the stake holders and residents. Stakeholders welcomed the programme
and were involved in the plan. The originally proposed dates were 18-21st December
2012. The dates were postponed to February 2013 on the third meeting. This was due
to a hive of activities that included Mayor’s cheer fund activities that called for the
participation of the same stake holders.
b) Clearing of illegal dumpsites Illegal dumpsites were identified in the three suburbs for clearing. A UD truck and a JCB truck were allocated for the task. Unfortunately the two trucks could not carryout the expected task of clearing all illegal dumps. In Torwood only one illegal dumpsite next to Batanai High School
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was cleared. The UD was down till 1000a.m and only collected one load. The JCB that was meant to help in the clearing started oozing oil while trying to remove the one illegal dump next to Batanai High School. It was never used for the purpose until the end of the programme. In Rutendo, the UD truck had a problem with one of its battery. This was replaced by a JCB truck battery. By the time the vehicle was on the road, the clean up for the suburb had reached the closing time of 1200. So no illegal dump was collected. In Redcliff five (5) illegal dumpsites were cleared. These were along Hillside road, Sally Mugabe Road near Cactus Road, near Redcliff Clinic and along King George road. This was done on the 27th of February as Redcliff clean up was rescheduled from 21st due to rains. c) Grass cutting This activity had the following resources in place:-tractor drawn mower, hand drawn mowers and slashers. Despite the over grown grass, the task was carried out satisfactorily. Open space was taken care of and shrubs were spruced. There is however need to extend the activity to cover the left areas.
Lawn mower at work
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Lawn trimmers were part of machinery used to cut grass.
d) Paper picking Twenty paper pickers to use during the exercise. Three storage bins were provided to place the refuse. Through community participation papers were removed from the street. This activity was thoroughly covered.
2. ANALYSIS OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
The success of the programme is credited to the residents, church fraternity,
schools, companies and the business community. These availed themselves
from planning, during the clean up and on the clean up launch day. Important
to note is that 79.3% of the adult participants were women. Ministry of Youth
had its staff in the field carrying out the clean up in all the three suburbs. The
following graph and tables show the participants per ward per sex and per
organization.
Community participation
0
5
10
15
20
25
ward 1 ward 2 ward 3 ward 4 ward 5 ward 6 ward 7 ward 8 ward 9
males
female
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Women conveying clean up message through singing.
STAKE HOLDER PARTICIPATION
STAKEHOLDER Male Female
Ministry of Youth 1 12
ZNA 6 0
Lions Club 1 0
Anglican 1 3
Zimchem 1 0
Business Community 3 0
Care Giver 0 2
DAAC Focal person 1 0
A donation of 6 loaves of bread and a box of biscuits was donated by Mr Chikara
who owns a mini supermarket in Redcliff and four empty drums were donated by
Zimchem.
SCHOOLS PARTICIPATION
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Rutendo Primary School pupils in action!
Seven out of nine schools participated during the clean up campaign. The numbers
of pupils that were released to take part per school are shown on the table below.
SCHOOL NUMBER OF PUPILS WHO
PARTICIPATED
Batanai High School 28
R.J.Davies Primary School 17
George Hill Primary School 34
Rutendo Primary School 198
Torwood Primary School 42
Drake Zisco High School 12
Total 331
3. BUDGET EXPENDITURE
Total budget for the Clean up Campaigning was $1500. This was raised to $1 650 as a result
of a cash donation of $150 from ZimChem and Oliken companies.
Purchased Items
Items Quantity Unit price Total
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Banners 2 $18.00 $36.00
Printed T-Shirts 147 $5.00 $735.00
Hats 20 $5.00 $100.00
Shovels 6 $10.50 $63.00
Mobile Bins 3 $95.00 $285.00
Garden rakes 2 $14.00 $28.00
Dust Masks 150 $0.20 $30.00
Petrol
Diesel
10litres
60litres
$
$
$15.30
$80.40
Mazoe orange crush
Mazoe Blackberry
Plain biscuits
Drinks
Bread
Margarine
(6 x2litres) x 3
(6 x 2litres) x1
2 x 2kg
192 (8 Crates)
60
3
$18.60
$15.80
$5.42
$0.50/drink
$1.00
$3.00
$55.80
$15.80
$10.84
$96.00
$60
$9.00
Transport to collect t-shirts
(Gweru)
2 $10 $20
Photo and video production $10
TOTAL EXPENDITURE $ 1650.14
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BREAKDOWN OF PARTICIPANTS PER WARD BY SEX
Ward Males Females
1 9 21
2 17 21
3 4 11
4 2 8
5 5 12
6 2 5
7 1 2
8 1 9
9 0 2
Total 36 138
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20.6% 138/174=79.3%
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Municipality of Redcliff
MUNICIPALITY OF REDCLIFF
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ACTION PLAN 2016
PRIORITY PROBLEM
GOALS ACTIVITY INDICATORS REQUIREMENTS
COST RESPONSIBILITY
TO HAVE A HEALTH ENVIRONMENT
1.Solid waste disposal
- to collect waste from residents and commercial centres.
1.Collect house hold
refuse once per week
and at commercial
centres twice a week.
2.Order fuel weekly on
time.
3.Remind the residents
through notices and
water bills.
4.Attend to resident
complaints on time.
5.Provide a backup
refuse truck.
-weekly collection
reports
-224 tones of refuse
collected per month.
-2 refuse compactor -15 skip bins -3000 refuse bins -10 push carts
$800 Senior Environmental Health Officer
∙Educate community on importance of recycling. Separation of waste for recycling.
-Recycling bins at collection sites -Registration of recycling teams
-Separating cages -recycling teams
Senior Environmental Health Officer
.Lining of new dump site
-Production of a prospectus -EIA for the new site
-Stationary -excavator
-$2000
Senior Environmental Health Officer
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-excavation and lining of 3 cells.
-ramming compactor
$2m
Town Engineer
2. Illegal dumps clearance in suburbs.
To encourage community participation in cleaning up of the town.
Carryout out ward level cleanup activities through community participation in the 3 suburbs 2 monthly.
Clean up report produced.
IEC material -brooms -paper pickers -wheel barrows -push carts
Senior Environmental Health Officer
3.Sewage management
To bring back life to Redcliff streams by 2016
∙ Refurbishment of sewage treatment plants and eliminate raw sewer being discharged into the streams from treatment plants and sewer blockages.
• Revived ecological system. • Fully functional treatment plants
Equipment $2m Town Engineer
∙ Effluent collection and analysis.
• Sample results. $500 Town Engineer
To retain the sanitary conditions in perennial sewer blocking area-Torwood-Redcliff-Rutendo 1 & 2
•Revisit perennial blocking areas and correct the system •Environmental Control of all sewer spoiled areas with chloride of lime after unblocking sewer.
•A sanitary environment •Treated soiled environment.
- -5000kg chloride of lime
$3m $10 000
Town Engineer Senior Environmental Health Officer
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4.Stream bank cultivation
To protect streams from siltage
•Stop stream bank cultivation and institute spot fines to violators. -Carry out awareness campaigns to prevent violation. •Monitor urban agriculture.
-safe water bodies -revived vegetation along streams. •Documentation of all urban agricultural activities for monitoring.
-3 bicycles -IEC material
$200 Chief Security Officer Senior Environmental Health Officer
5.Industrial waste disposal and air pollution
To protect the community and the ecosystem from industrial waste
-Constant monitoring of industries by Council on compliance.
-effluent tank per industry -reports
-stationary -fuel
$100 Safety Officers Senior Environmental Health Officer
6.Veld fires To protect the vegetation and wild life.
-Investigate all vield fires. -institute a fine to violators.
-Reduced vield fires - $100 Chief Security Officer
7.Reforestation To prevent deforestation and reforestation.
•Plant 100 trees on national tree planting day on identified space by 31st December 2016. -Carryout awareness campaigns on effects of deforestation. -Fine all found with wood but without
•100 Trees planted and reporting done. -reports
-land IEC material
$1000 Senior Environmental Health Officer Community Companies Chief Security Officer
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Forestry Commission certificate.
8.Environmental degradation.
To prevent soil erosion due to new developments.
•Carry out environment impact assessment of new developments. •Institute land reclamation activities.
•Impact assessment reports produce • Land reclamation report
- $2 000 Town Engineer Senior Environmental Health Officer
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