VISET empowers Goromonzi Vendors with Climate and Care Skills

By Andras PedroMbewe

07 March 2026

Goromonzi – Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET) recently held a Co-Responsibility and Gender-Norm Transformation Workshop in Goromonzi recently. The intervention was part of the Informal Economy Action for Climate and Care initiative that is being implemented in Harare, Goromonzi and Chiwundura. Speaking to this publication on the sidelines of the workshop, Jabulani Chikomwe VISET Programs Manager, said the workshop seeks to address the unequal distribution of unpaid care and domestic work that is affecting women informal traders, and promoting shared caregiving responsibilities among men, families, and community institutions. Some of the participants who was part of the workshop included the Representatives from the Ministry of Women Affairs Community Small-to-Medium Enterprise Development, ward Councillors, Traditional leaders, local authority representatives, residents, and informal traders. The seminar resulted in care-giving commitments from male Participants, including the establishment of a Male Champions Group, for sustainability purposes. “Chikomwe also revealed that cultural resistance from male participants had initially been a challenge, but that through engaging traditional leaders as co-facilitators had helped in overcoming resistance”.Marry Mutubuki a young women and a vendor highlighted some of the key issues discussed during the workshop as important and contribute to their lives as informal traders. She went on to encourage VISET to have more programs that empowers women in the informal sector.