Zimbabwe News Online: GCN Zimbabwe confirms successful leadership transition

GCN Zimbabwe confirms successful leadership transition
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Nyasha BM Mazango on 06 November, 2009 07:15:00
 
The New Executive Director, Nyasha Mazango has taken over the leadership of the
organisation and a new leadership team is in place to carry on the legacy of the
organisation.
The New Executive Director would like to confirm that almost everything that
needed to be handed over was done diligently and professionally .GCN over the
past ten years put together policies, in house training programs for girls and
women leaders ,fundraising strategies with both local big and small individual
funding partners  and reporting systems that need to be fully implemented and
monitored directly and this is what the new Executive Director is currently
working to do .
Betty Makoni has handed over all GCN assets (movable and immovable), four Girls
Empowerment Villages, 21 Vehicles and all current grant agreements with donors.
Eighteen donors have confirmed re-grants and partnership with GCN Zimbabwe and
only one donor will not renew partnership. All bank statements and financial
reports which had been managed by a finance director have been submitted and
this is still work in progress. The new Executive Director has received and
signed all asset registers. An induction by the Founder of Girl Child Network
Betty Makoni was successfully concluded and all reports, financial reports,
evaluation reports were professionally handed over for follow up and review.
The New Executive Director would want to inform all girls and stakeholders that
a total of nineteen donors are still working with Girl Child Network and for the
past ten years they have worked with the Founder member and from all previous
reports so far analysed there is a lot of work that has been funded and
supported by all donors. GCN values every contribution made by every funding
partner and the organisation sees every contribution whether big or small to be
valuable. GCN respects views and input from funding partners and hopes to engage
every partner for the betterment of girls’ lives in Zimbabwe.
In the next few months Nyasha Mazango hopes to officially unveil GCN three year
strategic plan where most of what has been done in the past will be enhanced,
improved upon and all best practices in GCN supported and shared widely. GCN
Empowerment model will continue to expand to many areas of Zimbabwe to benefit
girls whose lives continue to be at risk and recent revelations of sexual abuse
of at least 106 girls at a school in Bulawayo are some issues GCN will move
swiftly o work on now that a leadership team is in place .
Girls and all stakeholders are being encouraged to support GCN efforts  now that
the leadership transition has been successful and GCN is one of the few
organisations that has promoted young girls to take over the organisation and a
lot of what GCN learnt during transition process will help the organisation do
more such programs in the future. GCN would like to inform all that GCN
leadership at all levels has been reviewed inline with our three year strategic
plan and all Area coordinators and program coordinators have been officially
announced
Girl Child Network is a learning organisation and thrives for Excellency and
stakeholders are free to come in with ideas and new strategies to help us
respond to girls` needs, because each day presents new challenges. GCN welcomes
all stakeholders to communicate directly with the New Executive Director on any
issues, concerns and potential partnership.
Girls in Zimbabwe would like to congratulate Betty Makoni for being nominated
top ten CNN hero and for being one of the few child rights heroes for the decade
prize for the rights of the child where 22 million children have taken part in
the global vote. Betty Makoni`s efforts to build GCN in the last ten years
deserve to be awarded.
Inserted by:
Nyasha BM Mazango
Executive Director.
On behalf of Girl Child Network girls and board