Zimbabwean stories of "Best Practice" - SAfAIDS

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It is generally agreed that the HIV epidemic has had a powerful impact on the quality of life of Zimbabweansand has been exacerbated by the rapid decline in the country's economy. Inflation has broken world records,with more than half the population living on less than U.S$1 a day. The combination of economic devastationand the HIV epidemic resulted in an average life expectancy of 33 years in 2007, reduced from 61 yearsin 1990 (UNICEF, 24 January 2007).2.2 Location of the projects documentedThe following is a description of the location of the six projects and their operational areas. Figure 2 is amap which indicates their positions in Zimbabwe.Figure 2: Map of Zimbabwe showing the locations of the Best Practice projects and theiroperational sites11
3. METHODOLOGYTo enhance transparency, a call for submissions for Best Practices was circulated across Zimbabwe viaelectronic discussion forums, newspapers and other databases to afford every suitable organisation anopportunity to have their project selected for documentation. A selection committee, comprisingrepresentatives of the Zimbabwe AIDS Network (ZAN), relevant government ministries, including the Ministryof Women's Affairs, Gender and Community Development, NGOs, civil society and gender experts, wasestablished to review submissions using an assessment score card and summary sheet. After a rigorousselection process, six projects/programmes were identified for the Best Practice documentation. Thesewere:• Culture Dialogue Series - A transformative approach to addressing gender inequality in Zimbabwe,(A partnership project between SAfAIDS and Seke Rural Home-based Care Community Hospice(popularly known as Seke Rural)• Church, Family, Relationships and HIV/AIDS project (CFRH), Christian Aids Taskforce (CAT)• Auntie Stella Youth Reproductive Health programme, Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC)• Campaign for Social Change by Women's Action Group (WAG)• Shangaan-Hlengwe Culture (SHC) Project, Sesithule Vamanani Caring Association (SEVACA)• Padare 1 Odzi 2 Gender-Based Violence (GBV) project, Padare Men's Forum on Gender3.1 Data collectionFieldwork was undertaken to assess the projects/programmes during a three-week period in August andSeptember 2008. A qualitative research methodology was employed. Research methods included focusgroup discussions (FGDs), face-to-face individual interviews, observation, photographs and review of existingliterature on the various projects, covering information on the organisations, communities and beneficiaries,as well as relevant national and regional literature on culture, gender and HIV.The two Documentation teams travelled to the operational areas of the six projects in the Mashonaland,Matabeleland and Manicaland provinces of Zimbabwe. The discussions and interviews were set up by afocal person within the project in question. The focal person was also responsible for sending out invitationsand deciding the dates, times and venues of FGDs and interviews, with respect to the participants' dailyactivities. An attempt was made to draw from a broad range of informants, and care was taken to triangulatedata collection to ensure the validity of data.Three data collection tools were used to guide focus group discussions and interviews. These included:• An Interview Guide for conducting interviews with Key Informants,• An Interview Guide for conducting Focus Group Discussions with Communities/Beneficiaries and,• An Interview Guide to guide interviews with Project/Programme Implementers.The questions contained in these tools were designed to draw out relevant and complete informationrequired to adequately score the organisation according to a key tool used during the documentations,which was the Best Practice Score Card.1'Padare' is a Shona word which refers to a culturally significant meeting of men for the purposes of discussing issues ofimportance to the community.2Odzi is an area of Zimbabwe, the location of one of Padare's chapters. This particular chapter focuses on gender basedviolence (GBV).12
Page 5 and 6: ACKNOWLEDGMENTSOxfam International
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