About WLSA

About us

Get to Know About WLSA

Get to Know About WLSA

Women and Law in Southern African Research and Education Trust (WLSA) Zimbabwe started as a local Chapter of a sub-regional network in 1989. WLSA is now registered and operates as Private Voluntary Organization (PVO) in Zimbabwe. The network member countries include Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zambia. The purpose of the network is to contribute to sustained well-being of women and girl children through action-oriented research in the socio-legal field and advocating for women’s rights. WLSA work incorporates action into research by questioning and challenging the law, instigating campaigns for changes in laws, policies and plans of action, educating women and girls about their rights, providing legal advice and gender sensitizing communities and leadership.

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Our Vision

To have a society where justice is equitably accessed, claimed and enjoyed by women and girls in all spheres of life.

Our Vision

To organize, coordinate and support evidence-based interventions that promote and protect women and girls rights through legal and policy reforms and changes to discriminatory socio-cultural and economic practices.

Our Goal

To contribute to gender equality and fulfilment of women's rights 

Strategies

Our Strategies

We will employ the strategies which have served us well in past in delivering on the programme pillars. To the five strategies from the past, we are adding a new strategy on utilisation of media platforms to have six key strategies as follows: 

Action Research

as basis of evidence for designing actions (programmes/projects) for policy influencing and advocacy.

Regional and international linkages

for learning and sharing of best practises across countries and regions and for advocating and influencing gender policies and actions plans of bodies such as SADC, AU and UN organisations.

Use of different media platforms

for reaching out with messages on gender equality and women and girls’ rights and for the visibility of WLSA as an organisation.

Advocacy and Lobbying

whereby WLSA recognises the structural and systemic causes of gender inequality and injustices and therefore advocate for policy and practise change.

Development of models

for adoption by other stakeholders for replication and scaling up of best practises for greater national level impact.

Partnerships, collaboration and networking

whereby WLSA recognises that gender equality and fulfilment of women’s rights can only be achieved through concerted efforts of duty bearers, the rights holders themselves and other stakeholders including civil society organisations and donors.

Inclusivity and participation

whereby WLSA encourages genuine involvement of both females and males and youths in promoting gender equality and justice.

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