A new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) for the general agriculture sector has been signed even before the minimum wages of the last one have been implemented turning the whole process into a circus.
Lockdown measures imposed as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic are putting women at heightened risk of gender-based violence (GBV) at home and cutting them off from essential protection services and social networks. This was revealed in a Hivos-commissioned survey by Labour and Economic Development Research Institute of Zimbabwe (LEDRIZ) titled Impact of Covid-19 on the Horticulture Sector in Zimbabwe. The survey was conducted in May 2020.
PERSPECTIVE is a project that encourages artists to develop fresh content that highlights social issues. Umuntu, the digital production company behind the project, offers an alternative African narrative. It combines augmented reality and music to criticize the state of “our past, present and future” in Zimbabwe and beyond.
How can you fight discrimination against LGBTI people? In Zambia, the Umotto Centre of Culture decided to share stories. Their multimedia project Scenes of Change put exclusion and violations of human rights on the agenda.
With a grant from Hivos’ R.O.O.M. program, the Women’s History Museum in Zambia produced a thought-provoking documentary podcast series exploring the influence of women leaders on Zambia’s development.
With the cost of electricity becoming too steep for many in Southern Africa and the alternative of using firewood not being the best, what then is the solution? Green Energy is the way to go.
In partnership with Hivos, Every Girl In School Alliance conducted a Twitter Chat on ‘Decent Work’ under the Women@Work campaign. This article is a merging of different views, perspectives and experiences of the people who took part in the Twitter Chat.
Casual workers have suffered the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as most farm owners have shut the door for non-resident workers despite them constituting the majority workers on most farms, as a way to curb the spread of the virus.
Farmworkers have been excluded from the government’s allocation of $600 million set aside to cushion vulnerable households worst hit by the national lockdown put in place to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19).
The Zimbabwean government should through a statutory instrument (SI) immediately put in place occupational safety, health and environment (OSHE) legislation to address long-standing health issues affecting farmworkers especially in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 crisis is confronting us with uncertainties, health risks, economic dangers and dramatic social changes. While governments are imposing social isolation, the need for connection has never been greater. Where the virus is keeping us inside our homes, art, music, film, games, and literature take us out into the world, give us hope, and […]
The Alliance for Zambia Informal Economy Associations (AZIEA) Secretary General Lameck Kashiwa says the informal markets are already feeling the devastating impact of COVID-19.