WOMEN in peri-urban and rural areas of Seke, Caledonia, Bubi, Masvingo and Gutu districts are set to benefit from an economic empowerment programme aimed at addressing the ingrained heavy and unequal distribution of unpaid care work.
BY PHYLLIS MBANJE
Unpaid care work includes the production of goods or services in a household or community that are not sold on a market. Unpaid care work in the household includes domestic work such as cooking, cleaning, washing, and water and fuel collection.
Oxfam Zimbabwe recently rolled out a community mapping exercise on women economic empowerment and care in these areas.
The exercise was designed to highlight physical structures, strategic organisations and institutions that could be utilised to create a meaningful and effective programme targeting women in these areas.
The community-mapping tool has collected data, which is critical to the technical and social aspect of the implementation of the women economic empowerment and care project with regard to water sanitation and hygiene services and the infrastructure expected to reduce the existing gaps in care work.
Women in many communities are not empowered economically and access to income-generating projects remains a pipe dream.
The detailed community mapping exercise involving both men and women ranging from youths to elders has created a living record of the context with regards to women economic empowerment in most peri-urban and rural areas and specifically in the targeted districts.
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