The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is working on a national human development report on Zimbabwe to enhance human development knowledge in the country, the official news agency New Ziana reported on Tuesday.
The project will focus on gender and development for the period 2005 to 2007, and is expected to pave the way for pro-poor and gender sensitive policy-making in the country.
– The Zimbabwe Human Development Report is an output of a broad consultative process, rigorous research and analysis over a period of two years, said the UNDP.
– The publication of the report in 2006 will be followed by extensive dissemination and advocacy campaigns to key policy makers and the nation at large, it said.
The Ministry of Public Service, Labor and Social Welfare, as the government arm mandated with poverty reduction and monitoring activities, would implement the recommendations of the report.
The UNDP report will be crafted in line with the 1997 Heads of State and Government of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Gender and Development Declaration, which mainstreams gender in all SADC activities.
Zimbabwe has signed and ratified several declarations and protocols aimed at creating an enabling environment for equal life chances between men and women.
These include the 1979 Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action and the 1997 SADC Declaration on Gender and Development.
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