The Engendering HIV Protection programme worked to reduce the vulnerability of Zimbabwe’s women and girls to HIV infection.

The joint programme, which ran from 2007 to 2010, was implemented by UNICEF and UNFPA, in partnership with local NGOs and community organizations. It focused on HIV prevention interventions that would address key underlying vulnerabilities among women and girls. Activities included female condom programming, behaviour change communication, life skills training, counselling, gender education, and community action planning.

The programme reached an estimated 520,000 women and girls aged 10-49, as well as about 480,000 boys and men. It also trained community leaders, teachers, behaviour change facilitators and services providers to provide or promote HIV prevention services for women and girls.