AFRODAD-ZIMCODD Multi-Sector and Multi-Stakeholder Conference Communiqué 2020
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 9 October 2020 ZIMCODD and AFRODAD held an advanced multi-stakeholder conference on public debt in Bulawayo from 7-9 October 2020. The conference included speakers, discussants,...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 204 – WCoZ Situation Report
204 days of COVID-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that, as of 19 October 2020, the total number of COVID-19 cases increased to 8 159, after 12 new cases were...
View ArticleZimbabwe COVID-19 Lockdown Weekly Monitoring Report: 2-19 October 2020
Introduction This report covers the period between Friday 2 October to Monday 19 October 2020 of the national lockdown...
View ArticleDraft Water Bill, Underlying Principles and Conference Report
Memorandum There are number of legal frameworks that regulate water in Zimbabwe. Apart from the Constitution of Zimbabwe (No 20 of 2013), which entrenches the right to food and water under its Bill of...
View ArticleCommunities In Zaka And Gutu Demand Accountability Over Devolution Funds
Communities from Zaka and Gutu, who are part of Heal Zimbabwe Community Accountability Action Teams (CAATs), have raised concern over the lack of transparency on the way devolution is being rolled...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 205 – WCoZ Situation Report
205 days of COVID-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that, as of 20 October 2020, the total number of COVID-19 cases increased to 8 187, after 28 new cases were...
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Water Woes Hit Zaka District Communities
Serious water shortages have hit communities in Zaka rural district after water points, wells ran dry and boreholes broke down. Speaking during the community feedback meeting facilitated by Community...
View ArticleMonitoring Government Responses to Covid-19 Long Term Observers’ Report #21
Introduction The reporting period was characterised by intriguing developments in the field of elections in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) lifted its suspension of by-elections on...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 206 – WCoZ Situation Report
206 days of COVID-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that, as of 20 October 2020, the total number of COVID-19 cases increased to 8 187, after 28 new cases were...
View ArticleHeal Zimbabwe Partner, Family Visions Child Trust Tackles Access to...
Regardless of the benefits and privileges associated with proper identification, it is the right of every Zimbabwean to have identity documents. This also invariably applies to women and children....
View ArticleCabinet Approves Law That Criminalises Unauthorised Engagement With Foreign...
Government has approved contentious amendments to the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] that will criminalise “unauthorised communication by private citizens with foreign...
View ArticleLuveve Residents Petition Councillor Over Water Crisis
Residents in Bulawayo`s Luveve suburb have petitioned their council representative Councillor Febbie Msipa demanding immediate action and solution to water challenges faced by residents citing that...
View ArticleMachaya Probing Kurauone’s Unlawful Arrest And Lengthy Prison Detention After...
The Attorney-General (AG’s) Office is investigating complaints filed against President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government and other accomplices of unlawful arrest, detention and malicious prosecution of...
View ArticleHeal Zimbabwe Partner, CYDT Seeks Improved Youth Participation In Gwanda
Participation is a fundamental right. It is one of the guiding principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that has been reiterated in many other Conventions and Declarations. Through...
View ArticleTanzania Throttles Internet Ahead Of Elections
The run-up to Tanzania’s elections, set for 28 October 2020, threatens to blemish the record of a country that was once considered the torchbearer of democracy on the continent. On 26 and 27 October...
View ArticleGovt Outlines School Fees Hike Formula
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education says parents have the right to challenge any fees hike amid reports that the government has set new guidelines on how fees and levies should be adjusted...
View ArticleZimbabwe Lockdown: Day 212 – WCoZ Situation Report
212 days of COVID-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that, as at 26 October 2020, the total number of COVID-19 cases increased to 8 303 after 27 new cases were...
View ArticleMACRAD Commemorate World Habitat Day With Indigenous Xhangaan People Facing...
Masvingo Centre for Research Advocacy and Development (MACRAD) collaborating with Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development Trust (COTRAD) and Institute for Community Development Zimbabwe...
View ArticleAnti-GBV Ambassadors in Makoni Tackle GBV Using Conflict Mediation Tools
Anti-Gender Based Violence (GBV) Ambassadors established by communities working with Heal Zimbabwe have made strides in tackling GBV in Makoni district. Following a Women Rights and GBV reporting...
View ArticleVISET Acknowledges the Re-Opening of the Border Posts, but . . .
Vendors Initiative for Social and Economic Transformation (VISET) welcomes the resolution by cabinet for the phased reopening of border posts beginning 1 December.Cross border traders have been...
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