Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) - Piloting social protection and WASH interventions to keep adolescent girls in school in Zimbabwe - P177168 (English)

The project is in its early design stages and the following input is sought from stakeholders, particularly MPSLSW and the community: • A multi-stakeholder and participatory approach will be adopted to enable finetuning of the selection criteria for households. [...] The district which is mainly rural in nature lies between the save valley(river) from the north to the south-east and the Devure-nyazvidzi river on the southwestern side. [...] The year 2020 could not spare the district and since March 2020 when Covid 19 was declared a natural disaster ,Buhera district has been grappling with the Covid 19 pandemic and as the virus continues to evolve, the effects of the pandemic has impacted on household food security, livelihoods and has also greatly affected the education sector resulting in closure of schools and reports of one of the [...] The involvement of the local population is essential to the success of the Project to ensure smooth collaboration between Project staff and local communities and to minimize and mitigate environmental and social risks related to the proposed Project activities. [...] The project leveraged the existing relationships between the START for girls project and MoPSE to gather data on the vulnerability status of the learners during the covid 19 waves of closure 2.2 Stakeholder identification and analysis 2.2.1 Project affected Parties For the purposes of effective and tailored engagement, stakeholders of the proposed project can be divided into the following Three (3