The Secretariat of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has collaborated with the Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development in the Republic of Zimbabwe to launch the National Strategy to prevent and address Gender-Based-Violence (GBV) covering the period 2023-2030.
The National Strategy provides a guiding framework for the national response to GBV, sets out priority areas for the country, and outlines specific actions and strategies for the government, and the whole of society in their efforts to prevent and respond to GBV in general, and violence against women and girls in particular. The strategy recognizes that GBV is a complex, pervasive and multi-faceted phenomenon that intersects with a broad range of social and gender variables and therefore requires a multi-sectoral and well-coordinated response.
