Figure 1 Source: 2015 ZDHS report Figure 2: Source: 2015 ZDHS report 1.2 The Legal and Policy Framework for Gender-Based Violence in Zimbabwe There is general consensus among children and women’s rights activists that Zimbabwe has done extremely well in adopting the necessary legal and policy framework for gender-based violence. It should be noted from the onset, however, that the challenge has been translating the letter and spirit of the plethora of instruments into a life free from GBV for the majority survivors, women and girls. Zimbabwe is signatory to the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA); Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the African Union Women Protocol; the Southern Africa Development