Report of the 2015 International Women’s Day Stakeholder Commemorations The Deputy Minister applauded the government for progressively taking steps towards addressing these areas of concern noting that the 2015 commemorations came at a time when the country is in the process of aligning laws to the new people driven constitution that is alive to gender equality issues. She revealed that her Ministry was in the process of finalizing the second National Gender Policy (20132017) whose vision is to build a gender just society in which women and men enjoy equality and equity and participate as equal partners in the country’s development. The Minister highlighted that gender is mainstreamed in the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Agenda for Sustainable Transformation (ZIMASSET) has four pillars: a) Social Services and Poverty eradication cluster; b) Food Security and Nutrition Cluster; c) Infrastructure and Utilities Cluster and d) Value addition and Beneficiation Cluster The Guest of Honour concluded her address by urging ZHRC to double its resource mobilization efforts in order to operationalize the Gender Equality and Women’s Rights Thematic Working Group. From left to right, Deputy Minister of Women’s Affairs, Gender and Community Development Honorable A. Damasane, delivering the Keynote Address and Poet Gift Chihota presenting his piece f) Edutainment Page 10 of 17