Florence Chikumba

Team Leader at the Environmentalist Topic: Initiative in Perspective Title (IPT): Averting Climate Violence (CV) Exacerbating Childhood Sexual Violence (CSV) of Children in Neglected and Marginalized Communities. A Case of Goromonzi, District Zimbabwe. Our initiative is youth-led initiative, community-driven, people-oriented, inclusive and transformative agenda to meet the unmet climate change needs. The project has its basis in opening up a conversation around the intersection of Climate Violence (CV) and childhood sexual violence (CSV) in marginalized communities. For far too long children, young people and women in the rural areas have been victims of climate violence. To make matters worse, odds have also been against them for a long time as patriarchy, neoliberalism, and capitalism has/is already putting them in positions of disadvantage on all facets of life. In our own terms, we define Climate Violence (CV) as the absence of peace, it’s a society encumbered by violence of wildfires, floods, pollution, worsened incidences of diseases, extractivism, sharp food and water insecurity. Our intervention will be implemented in Goromonzi Rural District, Zimbabwe. It is an area located in the countryside under siege from the effects of climate violence as described above. Additionally, the environment is populated by children who dropped out of school, and face challenges such as rape, child labour, child neglect, and food scarcity. As young people with enthusiasm to achieve social development through research and movement-building we came together for the common good to change narratives in poor communities in the jaws of Climate Violence and childhood sexual violence (CSV). Task: The partner will be expected to draft child rights protocols/guides during the implementation process, offering research expertise in drafting data collection tool, analysis and reporting writing. In addition, the partner will also play a pivotal role in visibility efforts to amplify our project activities to our stakeholders, partners and beneficiaries especially on social media. Futhermore, the partner might offer some community engagement/support to our project team on the ground. Requirements: UM staff or students with expertise or interest in child protection, childhood development, climate change, community development, project management, monitoring and evaluation.