{"id":692,"date":"2021-12-01T08:13:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T08:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wasme\/?page_id=692"},"modified":"2022-12-13T08:19:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T08:19:14","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mwacsmed.gov.zw\/?page_id=692","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Ministry Vision<\/strong><\/p>

Socially and economically empowered women and resilient communities enjoying gender equality in a Small and Medium Enterprises driven economy by 2030.<\/p>

Ministry Mission Statement <\/strong><\/p>

To formulate, implement policies \/ programmes for women’s empowerment, gender equality, resilient communities, MSMEs, and cooperatives development and to coordinate stakeholders in the sectors.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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  • Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment No. 20; Sections 2,3,6,13,14, 17, 22, 25, 26, 31,40,46,52, 56, 71, 78, 80, 120 and 124<\/li>
  • Cooperative Societies Act (Chapter 24:05)<\/li>
  • Small and Medium Enterprises Act (Chapter 24:12)<\/li>
  • Domestic Violence Act (Chapter 5:16)<\/li>
  • Gender Commission Act (Chapter 10:31)<\/li>
  • Cabinet Directives<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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    Ministry Core Values<\/strong><\/p>

    • People Driven<\/li>
    • Responsiveness<\/li>
    • Accountability<\/li>
    • Teamwork<\/li>
    • Integrity<\/li>
    • Gender Sensitivity & Inclusivity<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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      Departments, Sections, and Parastatals<\/strong><\/p>

      • Women Affairs Department<\/li>
      • Gender Department<\/li>
      • Community Development Department<\/li>
      • Small and Medium Enterprises and Cooperatives Development Department<\/li>
      • Human Resources Department<\/li>
      • Finance and Administration Department<\/li>
      • Legal Advisory Department<\/li>
      • Strategic, Policy, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Department<\/li>
      • Procurement Management Unit<\/li>
      • Audit Section<\/li>
      • Communications and Advocacy Section<\/li>
      • Zimbabwe Women Microfinance Bank<\/li>
      • Small and Medium Enterprises Development Corporation (SMEDCO)<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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        Ministry Overall Functions<\/strong><\/p>

        • Formulate, recommend, implement, coordinate and evaluate policies, strategies, and programmes that promote women empowerment, gender equality, community, cooperative, and MSMEs development.<\/li>
        • Develop and promote value chains for goods and services produced by women, communities, cooperatives, and MSMEs.<\/li>
        • Provide, coordinate and facilitate technical and entrepreneurship skills and management training that support the empowerment of women, communities, MSMEs and cooperatives.<\/li>
        • Promote equal and equitable access, control, and ownership of resources in order to address gender inequalities.<\/li>
        • Ensure prevention and response mechanisms to reduce all forms of gender-based violence.<\/li>
        • Develop and maintain through research, databases, and publications on women empowerment, gender, communities, cooperatives, and MSMEs.<\/li>
        • Coordinate research work and publications on gender and provide gender-sensitive information and sex-disaggregated data for use in planning and project implementation at all levels and in all sectors.<\/li>
        • Provide support for technology access and development for women, community, MSMEs and cooperatives.<\/li>
        • Administer development funds for women, communities, MSMES and cooperatives.<\/li>
        • Administer all Acts assigned to the Ministry.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          introduction Ministry Vision Socially and economically empowered women and resilient communities enjoying gender equality in a Small and Medium Enterprises driven economy by 2030. Ministry Mission Statement To formulate, implement policies \/ programmes for women’s empowerment, gender equality, resilient communities, MSMEs, and cooperatives development and to coordinate stakeholders in the sectors. Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1247,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-692","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwacsmed.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwacsmed.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwacsmed.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwacsmed.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwacsmed.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/mwacsmed.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/mwacsmed.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwacsmed.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwacsmed.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}