Award of SAFE Programme to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls in Zimbabwe

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The Department for International Development awarded a contract to Ecorys UK Limited for the Stopping Abuse and Female Exploitation (SAFE) Programme in Zimbabwe.

The programme aimed to prevent violence by changing harmful attitudes and behaviours towards women and girls, providing life skills training, advisory services on sexual and reproductive health and rights, community education on violence prevention and response, and parenting support on non-violent disciplining techniques.

It also sought to respond to violence by increasing service uptake by survivors, strengthening community justice structures, providing rehabilitation and reintegration services for victims, and offering relationship counselling to victims of child marriage and domestic abuse.

Additionally, the programme aimed to increase the availability and use of evidence to better reach the most vulnerable people in Zimbabwe through an evaluation of violence prevention and response activities, demand-led research on child marriage and modern slavery, and capacity building for implementing partners.

The evaluation and learning component was separately procured under a DFID framework agreement (GEFA) to ensure independence from the GBV component.

The contract value was £6,960,000.10.