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This week (27–28 July 2026), CDWC joined the Ministry of Environment, Climate and Wildlife, ZiCMA, ZELO, development par...
29/07/2026

This week (27–28 July 2026), CDWC joined the Ministry of Environment, Climate and Wildlife, ZiCMA, ZELO, development partners, and fellow CSOs at Kadoma Rainbow Hotel for a two-day Dialogue on Carbon Trading, unpacking frameworks including SI 48 of 2025 and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
CDWC remains grounded in the realities of rural communities. Policy on paper is not justice on the ground. Key questions remain:
1. Who is really benefiting? High registration costs and bureaucratic hurdles risk locking out rural women already protecting our forests, water, and land — while favouring well-capitalised private players.
2. Is consultation leading to real decision-making? A seat in the room is not a seat at the table where decisions on carbon proceeds are made.
3. Do benefit-sharing mechanisms respond to actual community needs? How much reaches women and marginalised groups and are benefits designed with the understanding that communities are not homogeneous, but made up of diverse groups with different needs and priorities
4. Are grievance redress mechanisms and safeguards accessible particularly to women at community level? When rights are violated or agreements broken, do women have a real, safe, and enforceable channel to raise concerns, or are they sidelined in redress processes as they often are in decision-making?
CDWC will continue to monitor that carbon trading framework is built on FPIC, genuine community ownership, and gender justice, with transparent and inclusive benefit sharing.

We will continue to advocate, interrogate, and amplify community voices for real justice, not just private profit.
Southern Africa Rural Women's Assembly Emilia Hatendi Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe Winnet Banda AFD - Agence Française de Développement Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism TRUST Africa Trocaire

Recently (20–23 July 2026), CDWC joined over 28 women delegates from across Africa, Asia, and Latin America in Kenya fo...
24/07/2026

Recently (20–23 July 2026), CDWC joined over 28 women delegates from across Africa, Asia, and Latin America in Kenya for a powerful Dialogue on Women’s Land and Tenure Rights.
​we reflected on the collective journey of women fighting for land, while strategic focus was given to navigating the shrinking funding landscape especially within climate finance for Women’s Rights Organizations.
​Key takeaway: Across continents, women’s land rights remain heavily under threat. To bridge the gap, we must build a unified, unstoppable global movement to ensure funding directly reaches women on the ground.
​We wrapped up the week with an inspiring field visit to the Maasai Kajiado Women's Dairy Cooperative under the Pastoral Women’s Council of Kenya, witnessing firsthand how local women build true economic sovereignty through:
# Dairy production
​ # Agroecological kitchen gardens
​ # Beekeeping
​ # Community savings groups.
​CDWC returns home energized. The strategies, solidarities, and lessons shared across regions will directly power our mission as we amplify rural women farmers and girls in defending the commons!
Southern Africa Rural Women's Assembly Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe Trocaire Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism TRUST Africa Emilia Hatendi Winnet Banda

📢 CALL TO ACTION: Centring Women & Girls in Zimbabwe's Carbon and Biodiversity Markets !!!!! On 30 June 2026, the Centr...
06/07/2026

📢 CALL TO ACTION: Centring Women & Girls in Zimbabwe's Carbon and Biodiversity Markets !!!!!



On 30 June 2026, the Centre for the Development of Women and Children (CDWC) convened a landmark multi-stakeholder dialogue at the Bronte Hotel, Harare bringing together government ministries, the Zimbabwe Gender Commission, Civil Society Organisations, development partners, and resilient rural women farmers from Makoni and Nyanga around one mission: Ensuring Zimbabwe's green economy works for the women who sustain it.



Across Zimbabwe, women manage the very forests, wetlands, and fields that power carbon offset projects. Yet they carry climate change's heaviest burden while remaining largely locked out of its decisions and its dividends. It is against this backdrop that CDWC and its members present:



📋CDWC's 6 -Point Call to Action

To the Ministry of Environment, Climate and Wildlife, the Zimbabwe Carbon Markets Authority (ZiCMA), and development partners:



1. Make gender and disability inclusion mandatory in every carbon project positioning women as rights-holders, not merely labourers or beneficiaries, with power to negotiate contracts, sit on project governance structures, monitor implementation, receive direct financial benefits, and lead community carbon enterprises.

2. Uphold genuine Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) for every community affected by carbon projects ensuring that women directly present and heard in consent processes, not represented only through unelected local leaders so that consent is truly free, informed and given before, not after project approval

3. Invest in women's carbon literacy and legal awareness, equipping communities with accessible, user-friendly information and training on their rights before they ever sign a contract.

4. Publish project information and revenues so communities and women's organisations can track exactly how carbon finance flows and to whom.

Amplifying the voices of Rural Women Farmers in National Dialogue SpacesEmilia Hatendi Southern Africa Rural Women's As...
30/06/2026

Amplifying the voices of Rural Women Farmers in National Dialogue Spaces

Emilia Hatendi Southern Africa Rural Women's Assembly Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe AFD - Agence Française de Développement Sprout Women Empowerment Trust Women & Land in Zimbabwe Green Communities Africa - GCA

Participants raising concerns around:-what has changed in the 30 years of Conference of Parties-Why is the Climate Cha...
30/06/2026

Participants raising concerns around:
-what has changed in the 30 years of Conference of Parties
-Why is the Climate Change Bill taking Long
-How many parties are there on the COP
-What mechanism is there to track Climate Finances that are getting in the country
-What mechanisms are there to support small scale farmers to import renewable energy materials duty free

Today CDWC has convened a stakeholder dialogue meeting with the Ministry of Climate & Environment and Minstry of Women’s...
30/06/2026

Today CDWC has convened a stakeholder dialogue meeting with the Ministry of Climate & Environment and Minstry of Women’s Affairs Zimbabwe Gender Commission and Rural Women Farmers to unpack and interrogate the Zimbabwe Carbon Markets Regulations
- How are community rights protected
- ⁠Are people exercising their Right to Free Prior Informed Consent
-Are Carbon Investments going to benefit communities

19/06/2026

🌍 Webinar Invitation | Cultivating Change: Women Reclaiming and Transforming Food Systems

As part of the International Year of the Woman Farmer, we are pleased to invite you to the second session of the international webinar series “Cultivating Change: Women Reclaiming and Transforming Food Systems.”

This webinar series is jointly organised by GIZ FemHub, UN Women National Committee Germany, and Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA).

For RWA, this space is important because it brings forward the voices, lived realities and solutions of rural women farmers who continue to defend land rights, food sovereignty, seed justice and climate justice across communities and movements.

📌 Webinar 2: Structural Barriers and Gender Inequalities in Food Systems
📅 Date: Monday, 22 June 2026
⏰ Time: 14:00 – 15:30 SAST
🌍 Language: English

This session will explore the structural barriers faced by women farmers, including access to land, seed and decision-making. It will also reflect on how the climate crisis affects women differently.

Speakers will share practical experiences, women-led solutions and reflections on what it means to transform seed and food systems from the ground up.

🔗 Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/MOD7oCdESriMV7EmzJe-9A

📖 Read more about the webinar series:
https://unwomen.de/international-year-of-the-women-farmer-2026-webinar-series/

Let us continue cultivating change by centering the leadership, knowledge and resilience of women farmers.

Centre for the Development of Women and Children (CDWC) is strengthening its commitment to leaving no woman behind as it...
12/06/2026

Centre for the Development of Women and Children (CDWC) is strengthening its commitment to leaving no woman behind as it attends a vital 3-day Basic Sign Language Training (June 10–12, 2026) hosted by the Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) in partnership with Deaf Women Included. For CDWC, which works directly on the ground supporting rural women farmers, building this capacity is essential to breaking communication barriers and ensuring our climate justice, Transformative Feminist Leadership, and GBV programmes are fully accessible to women of all abilities. By equipping ourselves with these skills, we are enhancing our ability to provide inclusive service delivery and effectively communicate with deaf survivors of Gender-Based Violence (GBV), ensuring that the most marginalized voices in our farming communities are heard, protected, and empowered.
Emilia Hatendi
Southern Africa Rural Women's Assembly
Winnet Banda
Women's Coalition of Zimbabwe
Deaf Women Included

07 to 09 June 2026 University of Pretoria South Africa: Building Resilient Food Systems- We have the ANSWERSCDWC joined...
10/06/2026

07 to 09 June 2026 University of Pretoria South Africa: Building Resilient Food Systems- We have the ANSWERS

CDWC joined a Regional Consultative Dialogue Meeting with Academia Government Officials across SADC Region CSOs, rural women farmers and Funders on Seed Food and Agricultural Systems in the Region, zeroing in on the space that rural women farmers hold in transforming the seed food and agriculture systems in the region, riding on Agroecology

As Rural Women Farmers We Have the Answers

Viva Rural Women Farmers Viva!!!!
Southern Africa Rural Women's Assembly
Emilia Hatendi
Winnet Banda
Women & Land in Zimbabwe

CDWC attended a FACE regional review meeting in South Africa from the 1st to the 3rd of June at Melrose Place in Johanne...
08/06/2026

CDWC attended a FACE regional review meeting in South Africa from the 1st to the 3rd of June at Melrose Place in Johannesburg. This strategic three-day workshop focused on harvesting and documenting proven lessons from the FACE Project, placing a strong emphasis on sharing scalable best practices and innovative methodologies to tackle Climate Change. Key discussions centered on the intersecting issues of climate justice and gender/feminism, exploring powerful advocacy strategies, and highlighting artivism as a vital tool for grassroots mobilization. Crucially, in as much as funding is coming, women are actively demanding justice and urging major emitters to stop. Furthermore, as this funding cycle concludes, the project leaves behind a powerful model of localization because resources were channeled directly to the people most affected allowing them to lead the processes entirely local communities have achieved true ownership of the initiatives, ensuring that the power handed back to them will continue to drive lasting, impactful, and sustainable change.

Southern Africa Rural Women's Assembly
Women & Land in Zimbabwe
Winnet Banda
Emilia Hatendi

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Rusape

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