A creative approach to increasing women’s participation in Zimbabwe’s national healing and reconciliation process

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A creative approach to increasing women’s participation in Zimbabwe’s national healing and reconciliation process

March 9, 2019

This brief ‘imagines’ an innovative and systematic approach that reconciliation mechanisms like the NPRC could consider (among other tools) to ensure responsive and effective strategies to address gender needs – while enabling increased participation of women and girls. In doing so, it theorizes on the utility of ‘design-thinking’ as a systematic methodology that adopts a human-centered approach through empathy. This entails the needs of target groups being met by prototyping solutions before they are deployed at scale.