Stakeholders Zubo has worked with
Zubo Trust endeavours to facilitate a process whereby the rural women realize their socio, economic, cultural and political potential through discussion forums, seminars, meetings; as well as advocating and lobbying human rights and gender issues.
About Zubo Trust
About Binga District
Binga District falls in Natural Region IV and V of the Zimbabwean natural agro-ecological zones. This is characterized by low rainfall patterns of at least 450mm per annum with temperatures ranging from 25-35⁰C (Basilwizi, 2010) and such land is unfriendly for agricultural purposes. Before the relocation process of the 1950s, livelihoods in the area previously revolved around a combination of food crop production (maize, sorghum and pearl millet) on the flood plains of the Zambezi River. After the relocation process, Tonga lost riverine and upland farming (including recession agriculture), livestock rearing, hunting and fishing.
In terms of tourism, Binga District is along the Kariba Lakeshore. However, Conyers and Cumanzala (2004) point to the loss of entitlements to floodplain cultivation, fishing, hunting but also limited access to commercial fishing and tourism industries developed along the lakeshore as a result of the relocation process of 1950s. The implication being tourism activities are insignificant in Binga. .
Board of Trustees and Staffing
Zubo has 8 board members – all women. It has a staff compliment of 11 members 6 females and 5 males. Zubo has quite a number of volunteers that include 2 females based at the office; 2 part-time security guards, 1 technical advisor (female) based in the UK; 1 media expert based in Germany and 6 female Community Based Facilitators (CBFs) located in each operational ward of Zubo
Useful information
Zubo Trust
For many decades, women of the Zambezi Valley have been excluded in the development realm as compared to their male counterparts. As a result, most women suffer from an inferiority complex, which continues to make them invisible in the public sphere and subjugated to their male counterparts. This has excelled in the unequal access and distribution of resources, the domination of women in the private domain, created a limited political representation of women and a tolerance for male violence against women. Only a handful of women have attained high education with the majority being illiterate. In a way, this has negatively contributed to the gender gap in the district, alienating women in most developmental initiatives.