Author: jasmine shirey

On International Women’s Day, 8 March, 2019, FAWEZI hosted a Facebook live discussion with some of our Alumni members and young women from the Harare Institute of Technology. The discussion was centered on the theme – ‘Balance For Better’. We discussed issues that impact on equal representation of girls and women, focusing mainly on Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects and careers. Some of the participants also shared their personal experiences. Watch part 1 of the discussion here.

Happy WOMEN’S month and happy women’s DAY today, 8 March. For us this is a perfect time to amplify our voice in telling girls about their worth so that we build their confidence as they grow into the women of tomorrow. We also continue to support them in pursuing their career paths especially those that have been previously male dominated. As we celebrate all the women throughout the month lets also focus on identifying and recognizing their countless achievements. We do and will continue to celebrate the achievements of women in all aspects of society including social, economic, cultural and political arenas.

FAWEZI hosted an Amplify Change Grant partners meeting at our offices on 7 March, 2019 . Our main aim was to create partnership and improve the implementation of our activities . The organisations present were Chiedza Child Care and Youth Aspire Development Trust, both of which shared their work-plans with FAWEZI and as we all jointly identified areas for more opportunities and partnerships.

The meeting included FAWEZI sharing what we have done partnering with Amplify Change:

• The baseline was conducted from the 24^th to the 28^th of September in Chitungwiza and Shamva
• This was executed in the schools allocated to FAWEZI and the school’s surrounding communities
• The Baseline Survey results notified the topics that are focused on in our proceeding activities (guidance and counseling trainings, SRHR dialogues with young women, SRHR dialogues with adolescent girls, etc)

During the meeting we touched on what each partner is doing with beneficiaries with disabilities, upcoming young women and junior parliamentarians workshops, training of service providers, ways for Amplify to improve as a funding partner, and ways for us all to support one another.

On 6 March, 2019, FAWEZI’s M&E Officer Aleaster Masiyakurima took part in a brown bag meeting on capacity development pertaining to evaluation strategies on the national level. The ‘National Evaluation Capacity Development’ meeting was hosted by UNICEF Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Evaluation Association. The objectives of the session included:

• raising awareness on evaluation and the United Nation’s sustainable development goals and
• discussing strategies to effectively strengthen the evaluation capacity in Zimbabwe

FAWEZI was honored to be in attendance and is making every effort to engage in national conversations that impact ‘development’: especially those related to keeping our eyes open and curating effective records to watch how education and other social drivers impact our society.

It’s the first Friday of the month! Fawezi joined the clean- up exercise here at the #ZIMSEC Complex in Mount Pleasant . The Harare Provincial Education Director Mr Kateera and his Deputy Mr Zuweni were also in attendance. We also joined the Ministry of Women Affairs Community Small and Medium Enterprises in Chitungwiza for the their clean up session. 

Today, 28 February 2019, FAWEZI installed our third ATMOS 41 weather station at a Secondary school in Harare suburbs. You can find out more about the weather stations here. This station was installed at Mabvazuva Secondary amongst FAWEZI staff and Mabvazuva Head, teachers, students, and parents. We thank the Trans African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO) for being our partner in this and Mabzavuza for the warm welcome and hospitality, we know they will use the weather station well!!

As always thank you VGIF for helping us advance science and technology in Zimbabwe and thanks to our other funders and partners for all you do!