My Voice on Sexual and Reproductive Health Poster Design Competition: SAYWHAT
Deadline: 2 November 2012

SAYWHAT is running a “My Voice on Sexual and Reproductive Health Poster Design Competition” in all tertiary institutions in Zimbabwe from Monday the 1st October to Friday the 2nd of November 2012. My Voice on Sexual and Reproductive Health Poster Design Competition seeks to tap in the expertise of tertiary students who can design a poster that addresses one of the following themes:

-Positive Living (including Hope for Students living with HIV and AIDS).
-Promotion of uptake of Sexual and Reproductive Health services and commodities as well as Behavioural change to reduce the vulnerability of students.
-Equal participation of young men and women (gender equality and equity) and its relationship to Sexual and Reproductive Health.

In selecting the wining poster, an independent panel will consider the following:
-Whether your message is clear and precise;
-Level of relevance and appeal to students in tertiary institution;
-Creativity;
-Potential to inspire behaviour change in students.

Please note that the winner will walk away with 300US dollars cash! And an opportunity for the poster to be reproduced and widely circulated in all tertiary institutions in Zimbabwe. Do the best, make money and be remembered for being a positive voice amongst your generation.

This competition is open to all students in tertiary institutions in Zimbabwe.

Please submit your poster in JPEG, Microsoft Word and PDF format to: jephiter [at] saywhat [dot] org [dot] zw or langa [at] saywhat [dot] org [dot] zw

Or call us for more information on 0733854681/04788067/0772146247-9

SAYWHAT is a civil society student based organization founded in December 2003 as a platform where students in tertiary institutions can discuss their sexual and reproductive health challenges. Its overarching aim is to foster, among the students, a sharp sense of personal responsibility for maintaining good sexual and reproductive health status. SAYWHAT’s vision is to ensure a gender-just nation with empowered, healthy & responsible students who enjoy their full reproductive health & rights in tertiary institutions.

Yesterday, taking a friend to the airport, we were traveling along Borrowdale Road which turns into 7th Street and where you come upon State House and where you find soldiers dressed in full battlefield regalia and wielding guns with bayonets. Many Zimbabweans hold their breath while passing State House – you don’t want your car to break down, get a flat or get in an accident. Because if you do – yeah, and its All Your Fault – the army boys will smack you black and blue. Anyway, back to the beginning. Yesterday traffic had backed up in the left lane and those of us in the car wondered what was going on. A kombi driver and his mate, in a sweat of panic, were pushing their taxi backwards down Borrowdale Road. To avoid being beaten.

When some people say Zimbabwe is a lawless country, buffoons imagine it to mean warlords roaming the streets a la Siad Barre’s Mogadishu. Because white farmers are no longer being killed on farms, oh well, you see we are a law abiding lot. My ass! You only need the very bad example of belligerent and fictitious veterans of the liberation struggle and how they have been left by the law enforcement agents to run riot and threaten the life and limb of poor Tendai Biti.

Surely if anyone besieged any brazenly incompetent Zanu PF minister’s office we all know they would get the baton stick and tear smoke treatment and as many a dare devil activist knows – including lawyers by the way – blissless nights await them at Matapi and Khami. Hey, these scoundrels are threatening the life of an elected government official. It could still be disgruntled small-scale farmers bum-rushing the offices of the unelected Joseph Made rightfully demanding that the GMB pays them seasons-old debts! He would still get protection. You see, thence the law ain’t choosy, only the colours. Talk about a blind ass!

But then I feel silly saying it because everyone knows this. That’s where the lawlessness comes in. If there was respect for the rule of law, the hooliganism of these broke-ass louts would have been dealt with already. The rather eerie thing for me is that it usually takes one moron who has given up on looking for a job but firmly believes Biti is “refusing with our money” to throw a fist, a Molotov, a brick at the FinMin before everybody wakes up to the actions of these lawless and dangerous elements. Only then will Zanu PF start disowning them.

The irony is that each time some whacky outfits come out claiming mayhem in the name of Zanu PF, Secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa, spokesperson Rugare Gumbo are ever as quick as an MDC supporter escaping Zanu PF midnight marauders that these Chipangano clones are not from the Zanu PF family of law-abiding Zimbabweans. But not when the vets physically accost a government minister! (Not vets as in veterinarians, someone said the behaviour of the veterans borders on the illiterate, so you have to juxtapose that with an illiterate veterinarian before you confuse the two “vets”! ) So what happened to the special protection unit for ministers if there ever was such a thing?

And I can already imagine them frothing in the mouth reading this – and their response to this blog? “We will beat the crap out of this guy.” I am laughing already.

Zimbabwe representatives Midlands State University came out fourth at the just ended 2012 Enactus World Cup tournament (formerly SIFE Worldwide). The Enactus World Cup is a showcase of the impact that Enactus teams are achieving around the world and brings together an international network of student, academic and business leaders. The tournament is held once a year with competing teams being drawn across the world to showcase their community outreach projects to a prestigious group of international business leaders. This year’s tournament was held in Washington DC in the United States of America (USA) and 39 countries took part. Belmont University of USA is the winner of the 2012 World Cup followed by Egypt, India and fourth place Zimbabwe.

Customised employee job satisfaction survey: Cordaid Zimbabwe
Deadline: 9 October 2012

Invitation to submit an application to conduct a customised employee job satisfaction survey for Cordaid Zimbabwe.

The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare (MoHCW) and the World Bank have appointed Cordaid Zimbabwe, to manage the Results Based Financing (RBF) program, in close partnership with the MoHCW and the World Bank. Cordaid has established an office in Harare and has a staff compliment of 54 national staff.

Cordaid Zimbabwe is currently searching for a consultancy firm or Individual Consultant to carry out the 2012 Customized Employee Job Satisfaction Survey and therefore we are inviting organization to submit an application to show interest and for us to take consideration when we further carry out the consultancy selection.

The following will be required for submission by Tuesday the 9th of October 2012:
1. The CVs of the personnel concerned
2. Detailed explanation of the methodology
3. Duration to be taken for the survey
4. Sample questionnaires/survey
5. Sample of previous employee job satisfaction surveys
6. Brief history or background of the organizations past experience in carrying out such an activity.
7. Quotation indicating the cost of carrying out the survey.

For firms/organizations only – also submit:
1. Company CR14 certificate
2. Certificate of incorporation
3. Current Tax clearance certificate
4. Company/Organisational Profile

Required Qualifications and Skills
- At least 5 years experience in Industrial and Organisational Psychology and/or General Human Resources management.
- At least 3 years experience working as a consultant and with different stakeholders.
- Demonstrated knowledge and at least 5 years of previous experience in the execution of employee job satisfaction survey for INGO’s sector.
- Excellent analytical skills necessary for capturing the views and suggestions that will emerge from the feedback of the exercise.
- Excellent communication and writing skills

Based on your submission, the consultant will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the World Bank’s Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers (current edition).

For those who are interested individual and/or firm consultancy, please can you kindly contact the Human Resources Department through the email: hr.zimbabwe [at] cordaid [dot] net for the Terms of Reference and further details before the deadline.

Submission of the proposal and other documents can be delivered in a sealed envelope at the following Cordaid Office:

Att: The Human Resources Officer
Cordaid Zimbabwe
21 Argyle Road
Avondale
Harare