CSOs push for national funding for GBV services

CIVIL society organisations have called for Gender-Based Violence (GBV) services to be explicitly stated in the national budget to boost provision of GBV amenities.

Speaking at a workshop in Harare yesterday, Poverty Reduction Forum Trust (PRFT) programmes manager Nyasha Nyatondo said the country’s heavy reliance on external funding for GBV services was unsustainable due to declining global donor support.

PRFT is implementing the Advancing Gender Equity and Equality in Public Health Financing Project under the Christian Aid Zimbabwe Health Work-Stream Consortium that includes the Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) and Community Working Group on Health (CWGH).

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