Recommendations and Conclusion Zimbabwe Peace Project Recommendations to the Zimbabwean Civil Society Civil society and government must raise awareness on VAWP and its ramifications for women participation in politics. Awareness raising has been shown to challenge the harmful social norms that propel gender-based violence and to support positive norms. Awareness raising could target the general public through, for example, radio programs, roadshows and outreaches on VAWP Civil society should strengthen the knowledge and capacities of law enforcement agencies and the judiciary, such as police officers, prosecutors and magistrates, in investigating and prosecuting perpetrators of VAWP Civil society must implement survivor-sensitive and human rights-based approaches to provide healing to survivors of VAWP Civil society must train political parties and leaders on VAWP Civil society must take interventions meant to address the patriarchal control tendencies that fuel the gender and social norms that undermine women's participation in politics. Further research is needed to identify the most effective methods for such interventions. 9 Civil-society organisations should strengthen the digital literacy skills of women politicians and activists to effectively counter online VAWP. These skills could include the ability to secure their accounts and to report and block accounts, including ghost accounts that perpetrate gendered misinformation, disinformation and mal-information Civil-society organisations should extend psychosocial support to women survivors of VAWP to minimise its negative impacts on their emotional health and wellbeing. 26

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