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Disability inclusion vital

NANGO held a multi-stakeholder Indaba on Understanding the Process and Implementation of the Africa Governance Architecture (AGA) and Africa Charter for Democracy, Election and Governance (ACDEG). As the indaba addressed a myriad of issues, leaders of organisations championing disability inclusion expressed concern at the exclusion of disability sector in governance and election processes. It was pointed out that as NANGO directs its focus towards the looming plebiscite, the umbrella body should ensure that all processes are accessible to people different disabilities. Zimbabwe Election Support Network was applauded for its efforts to push Zimbabwe Election Commission to package its information differently. There are concerns that the information must be in braille, audios youth friendly and citizen friendly. The indaba followed a meeting that was organised by SADC-CNGO and attended by NANGO members. CSOs were familiarised with the AGA and ACEDG frameworks and how they are relevant. NANGO places value in taking stock of progress in Zimbabwe building up an engagement strategy to influence domestication of the instruments by the government of Zimbabwe. Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) that attended the indaba concurred that there is need to develop a foundation of good governance and to translate the policy documents to local languages and make them understandable to every citizens. The NANGO National Youth Sector Chairperson and National Association of Youth Organizations Director, Misheck Gondo documented feedback as he had attended the conference from 14 – 16 March 2018 in Boksburg, South Africa.

NANGO-Youth-Sector-to-engage-government-on-ratification-of-ACDEG.pdf

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National Peace and Reconciliation Conference Report 2013

Bulawayo_National-Peace-and-Reconciliation-Conference-Report-2013.pdf

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ZCTU statement on fiscal policy review

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) is seriously concerned with negative effect of the 2019 Mid-Term Fiscal Policy Review and Supplementary Budget Statement presented by the Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube on 1 August 2019. The supplementary budget, instead of giving hard pressed Zimbabweans some room to breathe, proposes a host of tarrif hikes that will further improverish Zimbabweans. In particular increases such as ZESA tarrifs by over 273%; tollgates fees by 500%, Public service Vehicle Operations’ licences; Route Authorisation fees and ZINARA services will simply mean that these costs will be passed on to consumers. Read more in the PDF below

Press-Release-Mid-Term-Fiscal-Policy-Review.pdf

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State led contract farming in maize production and farmers’ lived experiences

The dynamics of contract farming are different between food crops and cash crops with experiences, perceptions and outlook between these schemes entirely different. The government of Zimbabwe implemented a Special Maize Programme for Import Substitution from the 2016/17 agricultural season also known as command agriculture which is a state led contract farming scheme for maize. While the impacts, challenges and structure of contract farming have been documented (e.g. Mazwi and Muchetu, 2015, Moyo 2013), much of the focus of these studies have been on contract farming for cash crops. The objectives of these case stories are, therefore, to document farmers' production and market experiences in state-led contract farming for maize as a food crop and mirror their perceptions and reﬂection of contract farming for food crops across production gradients, gender and varied production capacities. Click below for the rest of the paper.

Maize_Case_Stories_Final.pdf

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