Mercy Mangwana Nyamhunga

🏆 Congratulations to the winners and runners-up of the UNFPA-sponsored Gender Based Violence and Maternal Health categories at the ZUJ Media Awards! 👏 Maternal Health Category: - Fatima Bulla Musakwa from The Sunday Mail - Winner. - Trust Freddy from The Herald – Runner-up. 👏 Gender Based Violence Category: -Moses Magugunyeki from The Standard Newspaper - Winner. - Thandiwe Garusa from New Ziana – Runner-up. UNFPA Zimbabwe celebrates these journalists whose reporting raises awareness, amplifies voices and drives action to end gender-based violence and improve maternal health. Thank you for using the power of the media to advance the health, rights and dignity of women and girls! 🧡 #ZUJMediaAwards #UNFPAZimbabwe #EndGBV #MaternalHealth #MediaForChange

Only 1 day left to apply! #ZimbabweHackLab2026 Your idea could be the start of a practical solution to a real challenge. Don’t let this opportunity pass you by. 📅 Deadline: Tomorrow, 20 October, at 23:59 CAT. 🔗 Submit your application: forms.gle/qXG6oVCC87Dq82TR9 #YouthEmpowerment #YoungZimbabwe

Ahead of International #DayOfTheGirl on Sunday 11 October, the @UNZimbabwe is doubling down on its commitment to Zimbabwe's girls. As #UNFPA we remain committed to ensuring that every girl has the opportunity to learn, lead, and shape their future. It is time to remove the barriers holding them back. Read the full statement here: bit.ly/4rYLkTs @UNICEFZIMBABWE @unwomenzw @PlanZimbabwe #UN81 #DayOfTheChild #InvestInGirls #GirlsRights

🚨 Zimbabwe’s Young Innovators - this one is for you!! Have an idea that could improve young people's health and well-being? Want to create new economic opportunities for young people? Have a solution for green jobs or climate resilience? 🌍 The Zimbabwe Youth Innovation HackLab 2026 is open. Bring your idea. Build your team. Choose your challenge. Develop your solution. And you could receive: 💰 USD 5,000 seed funding 🧩 Business development support 🎤 Pitch coaching 🇿🇼 National visibility 🌍 Opportunities for regional exposure You have until 20 October 2026 at 23:59 CAT to submit your application. Don't wait until the last week. 📲 APPLY NOW: forms.gle/qXG6oVCC87Dq82TR9 📄 Read the full Call for Applications: zimbabwe.unfpa.org/en/submis… #ZimbabweHackLab2026 #YouthInnovation #YouthEmpowerment #InnovationForImpact

🚀 Got an idea? Now make your application strong! The Zimbabwe Youth Innovation HackLab judging criteria is focused on six areas: 🔹 Problem–solution fit 🔹 Innovation and originality 🔹 Feasibility and viability 🔹 Youth ownership and leadership 🔹 Scalability and impact potential 🔹 Intersectionality and cross-cutting integration Before you submit, ask yourself: What specific problem am I solving? Which root cause am I addressing? 👉 Who will use or benefit from my solution? 👉 Can we build and test it within 12 months? 👉 How would we use the USD 5,000 seed grant? 👉 How does our solution consider inclusion, gender and disability? Don't just tell us about the problem. Show us what you would build to change it. 📅 Applications close 20 October 2026 at 23:59 CAT. 🔗 Apply: forms.gle/qXG6oVCC87Dq82TR9 #ZimbabweHackLab2026 #YouthInnovation #InnovationForImpact

💡 YOU DON'T NEED A PERFECT, FULLY-BUILT BUSINESS TO APPLY. The Zimbabwe Youth Innovation HackLab is looking for practical ideas that can become solutions. Innovation can be: ✔️ A new product ✔️ A service ✔️ A platform ✔️ A process ✔️ A business model Your idea should address a real problem, target a specific root cause and be something a youth-led team can build, test and improve. It doesn't have to be fully developed. But it should go beyond: ❌ A research report alone ❌ An advocacy campaign alone ❌ Replicating an existing programme without meaningful adaptation ❌ Technology with no clear user or social outcome Have an idea you've been thinking about? This is your opportunity to take the next step. 🚀 Apply for the Zimbabwe Youth Innovation HackLab 2026. 🔗 forms.gle/qXG6oVCC87Dq82TR9 #ZimbabweHackLab2026 #Innovation #YouthInnovation #IdeasIntoAction

The Zimbabwe Youth Innovation HackLab 2026 is calling for practical, youth-led solutions in three areas: 🩺 1. Holistic Youth Health & Well-being How can we improve young people's access to quality, affordable and youth-responsive health services and information? 💼 2. Youth Economic Empowerment How can we create better pathways to skills, jobs, entrepreneurship and formal economic participation? 🌱 3. Green Jobs & Climate Resilience How can young people access green jobs while building stronger resilience to climate-related challenges? Your innovation must focus on ONE category and address at least one of its identified root causes. So, what problem are you ready to solve? 📅 Applications open: 25 September 📅 Deadline: 20 October 2026, 23:59 CAT 🔗 Apply: forms.gle/qXG6oVCC87Dq82TR9 #ZimbabweHackLab2026 #YouthInnovation #YouthSolutions #GreenJobs #YouthHealth #EconomicEmpowerment

#UNFPA was happy to join the @UNZimbabwe Country Team in launching #UN81 - a month-long campaign showcasing the UN’s work in Zimbabwe as build up towards #UNDay commemorations on 23 October. At the media engagement to launch the campaign UN agencies shared their work and explored opportunities for stronger collaboration with the media. A key area of discussion was Zimbabwe’s preparedness for El Niño-related shocks and how protecting women and girls must remain central to humanitarian action. For @UNFPA_Zimbabwe, this includes strengthening GBV prevention and response and ensuring women and girls can access essential protection and services during such emergencies. #UNZimbabwe #UNFPA #EndGBV #ElNino #Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwe Youth Innovation HackLab 2026 is designed to help young people move from problem → idea → solution → action. This is not simply a competition. It is a structured pathway for young innovators to co-design, build, test and refine practical solutions to challenges identified by young people, government, the UN and civil society. Successful innovators will receive support including: 🔹 USD 5,000 seed grant for each category winner
🔹 Business development support
🔹 Financial literacy and business model refinement
🔹 National visibility
🔹 Opportunities for regional exposure Have an idea that could make a measurable difference? 📅 Applications close 20 October 2026 at 23:59 CAT. 🔗 Apply: forms.gle/qXG6oVCC87Dq82TR9 #ZimbabweHackLab2026 #YouthInnovation #InnovationForImpact #YouthEmpowerment

🔴 Happening Now! The conversation on the future of equitable healthcare financing is underway. 🏥🇿🇼 Stakeholders are gathered to review progress and reflect on the implementation of the Community Health Equity Fund (CHEF) an innovative health-financing model aimed at expanding equitable access to quality healthcare for communities. The CHEF Review Meeting brings together the @CityofHarare, @UNFPA_Zimbabwe, @ZBForYou, Government, civil society, private sector and other partners to take stock of progress, identify gaps and discuss the way forward for a sustainable and scalable model. Today’s focus: turning partnerships and innovation into stronger, more equitable health systems for communities. #CHEF #HealthEquity #UniversalHealthCoverage

Zimbabwe is investing over US$250 million to upgrade nationwide hospital infrastructure by 2030, with 30% dedicated entirely to maternal and child health. Announced at #UNGA81 on behalf of H.E President E.D Mnangagwa by the Minister of @MoHCCZim Dr. D. Mombeshora this investment aims to bridge rural access gaps and ensure the health and dignity of women, children and youth. #Vision2030 #MaternalHealth #UniversalHealthCoverage #HealthForAll #LeaveNoOneBehind #Zimbabwe

🌍🇿🇼 HAPPENING NOW | NEW YORK Investing in sexual and reproductive health is investing in the future. The UNGA81 High-Level Side Event on Sustainable Financing for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) is underway in New York. Zimbabwe’s Minister of Health and Child Care, Hon. Dr Douglas Mombeshora, is delivering remarks on behalf of H.E. President Dr Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, sharing Zimbabwe’s experience in mobilising domestic resources and innovative financing to sustain access to essential SRHR services and commodities. As global financing landscapes shift, the message is clear: sustainable health financing requires country ownership, innovation and strong partnerships. 📍 New York 🇺🇳 #UNGA81 #SRHR #HealthFinancing #Zimbabwe #UNFPA #HealthForAll

Strong partnerships build resilient systems where choice for contraceptives thrives! 🏥💙 An estimated 2,232,000 million women used modern contraceptives in Zimbabwe in 2025 contributing to the prevention of about 815,000 unintended pregnancies, 204,000 unsafe abortions, and 2,250 maternal deaths. UNFPA flagship programmes - the #HealthResilienceFund 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 and the @UNFPA_Supplies - have contributed greatly to this success helping ensure health facilities have adequate family planning supplies nationwide. @euinzim @UKinZimbabwe @IrlEmbPretoria #WCD2026 #HealthResilienceFund #UNFPAZimbabwe #Partnerships #MatchFunding

We wrapped up a very fruitful engagement with Members of Parliament through the Not-In-My-Constituency (NiMC) Campaign, with rich discussions and, importantly, concrete actions to take the issue of teenage pregnancy forward. The engagement reinforced the critical role of leadership, accountability and coordinated action in creating an environment where adolescent girls can stay in school, avoid early pregnancy and marriage, and realise their full potential. From evidence to dialogue, and from dialogue to action - the commitment is clear: we must do more to protect and empower Zimbabwe’s girls. The conversation continues… Read more here: healthtimes.co.zw/not-in-my-… #NotInMyConstituency #EndAdolescentPregnancy #ChildMarriage #SRHR #GenderEquality #DemographicDividend

At the close of the #NotInMyConstituency Campaign, @UNFPA_Zimbabwe Representative @MirandaTabifor pledged UNFPA’s continued technical and financial support to strengthen the campaign and sustain action against child marriage, adolescent pregnancy and harmful practices. She also called on Members of Parliament to join forces, champion change and drive action in their constituencies to create safer, more supportive communities for girls and young people. #YouthEmpowerment #EndAdolescentPregnancies #SRHR4All #NotInMyVillage

📊 “With 62% of Zimbabwe’s population under the age of 25, our young people are our greatest demographic opportunity. But this opportunity depends on investing in their health, education and rights today.” said #UNFPA🇿🇼Representative @MirandaTabifor at the #NotInMyConstituency engagement meeting. Investing in young people means removing barriers to healthcare, ending #GBV and child marriage, and expanding youth-friendly services. Protecting girls today is an investment in Zimbabwe’s demographic dividend and future. #NotInMyConstituency #YouthEmpowerment #EndingChildMarriages #EndAdolescentPregnancies

Delivering opening remarks at the #NotInMyConstituency engagement meeting, Acting Deputy Clerk of @ParliamentZim Ms. Lucia Nyawo reaffirmed Parliament’s openness to support the #NotInMyConstituency campaign to end adolescent pregnancy. She highlighted Parliament’s previous support for safeguarding policies and its continued commitment to creating a safer, healthier future for young people. #EndAdolescentPregnancy #ProtectGirls #YouthEmpowerment