ZIMBABWE FELLOWS

VISIT TO WESTMINSTER AS PART OF THE COMMONWEALTH PROFESSIONAL FELLOWSHIP SCHEME

24-25 APRIL 2012

PROGRAMME

TUESDAY 24 APRIL

0930 Arrive at Portcullis House, Houses of Parliament

Met on arrival by Charlotte Restorick

0945 Introduction to CPA UK

Helen Haywood, Deputy Director, CPA UK

W4 Room

1000 Introduction to the Westminster System and the Legislative Process

Kate Emms, Senior Clerk, Public Bill Office

W4 Room

1100 Coffee

1130 View International Development Committee Hearing

Tax In Developing Countries, Increasing Resources For Development

Committee Room 5

1230 Lunch Meeting with Oliver Colvile MP, Vice Chair of Zimbabwe All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG)

IPU Room

1400 Introduction to the House of Lords

Rt Hon. Lord Foulkes of Cumnock

IPU Room

1430 View Proceedings in the House of Lords

1515 Tea

1530 Panel Discussion on telemedicine in Africa

Africa-UK

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technologies in order to provide clinical health care at a distance. It helps eliminate distance barriers and can improve access to medical services that would often not be consistently available in distant rural communities. Wilson Room, Portcullis House

1700 End of Day One

WEDNESDAY 25 APRIL

0945 Arrive Portcullis House, Houses of Parliament

Met on arrival by Charlotte Restorick

1015 Tour of Parliament

1100 Coffee

1130 View Speaker’s Procession and Prime Ministers’ Questions in House of Commons

1245 Lunch

1345 Diaspora engagement in Zimbabwe

Africa-UK, Africa APPG

IPU Room

1500 Tea

1530 Meeting with Kate Hoey MP, Chair of Zimbabwe APPG

IPU Room

1630 End of Programme

DELEGATES

1. Primrose Matambanadzo 2. McDonald Lewanika 3. Kumbirai Mafunda 4. Ellen Kandoro-Dingani

PRIMROSE MATAMBANADZO Primrose Matambanadzo is the Executive Director of the Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights which has trained over 1000 health professionals in health and human rights. Her Fellowship will focus on human rights, public health and health advocacy. She is also interested in acquiring relevant knowledge of social media and of ways in which civil society engages the media.

During her Fellowship she will spend two weeks at Amnesty International attached to their health and human rights desk and two weeks at Human Rights Watch, during both of which she will develop new materials for training in awareness of human rights. She will also meet officials in FCO and DFID and a range of other organisations including the White Ribbon Alliance on Safe Motherhood and the British Institute of Human Rights, and spend one week at Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum.

She will attend the following courses during her Fellowship:  Development of a Disease Control Programme at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine  Needs Assessment and Planning Tools: Disease Control at District Level at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine  Core Skills in Clinical Governance at Medicology in Manchester

MCDONALD LEWANIKA McDonald Lewanika is Director of Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, an association of more than 350 civic society organisations that share a common mission to promote democracy in Zimbabwe, working on advocacy, information, peace building, youth and human rights. He previously founded Students Solidarity Trust, a non-partisan student based organisation supporting the students movement and student activists. He is particularly keen to increase his knowledge of best practice in advocacy and current thinking around democratistation, governance and leadership and the role of civil society in the UK.

His Fellowship will be hosted by Citizens UK, the biggest community alliance in Britain. Bringing together more than 160 schools, universities, trade unions, community and faith groups, Citizens UK aims to empower communities and strengthen civil society.

He will gain experience with the Living Wage Campaign, which calls for every worker in the country to earn enough to provide their family with the essentials of life. McDonald will see how the Living Wage Foundation has signed up more than 100 employers including the Olympic Delivery Authority, the Greater London Authority, Barclays and KPMG. He will review the campaign to involve local people in key decisions about the Olympics and how the People's Promise has helped to promote affordable homes through a Community Land Trust.

Courses he will attend (tbc) during his Fellowship include:  International Human Rights Short Course at the Human Rights Law Centre  Global Corridors of Power course at INTRAC, a membership body for UK-based NGOs working for international development in London.

KUMBIRAI MAFUNDA Kumbirai Mafunda is the Senior Projects Officer at Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), an independent organisation that aims to strengthen human rights in Zimbabwe through the rule of law. Kumbirai is responsible for ZLHR’s communication strategy targeting members, partners and media outlets. He was formerly a senior reporter on the Financial Gazette. He is keen to augment his knowledge of transitional justice mechanisms and work with transitional justice experts and organisations working in countries undergoing political transition.

His Fellowship will be hosted by Common Purpose, a not-for-profit organisation that brings together people from a wide range of backgrounds to help them become more effective leaders in society. Common Purpose runs a range of leadership development courses that offer participants the inspiration, knowledge and connections to help them become more active and engaged in society. They have run four leadership programmes for Zimbabweans in the diaspora in UK and South Africa and hosted a Professional Fellow from Zimbabwe in March 2011. Kumbirai will also spend time at Amnesty International.

Courses that Kumbirai will attend include:  International Human Rights Short Course at the Human Rights Law Centre  Advanced Journalism Social Media Masterclass at The Social Media Academy  A bespoke course delivered by Media Trust in new media and presentation skills.

ELLEN KANDORO-DINGANI Ellen Kandoro-Dingani is the Media and Information Officer at the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), a coalition of non-governmental organisations formed to promote free and fair elections. She is keen to deepen her understanding of the workings of the international media on issues of democracy and elections. In particular, she would like to develop her social media skills and further her understanding of the burgeoning role of social media in the democratic process.

Ellen will be based at the Royal Commonwealth Society as a member of the Commonwealth Organisations’ Committee on Zimbabwe. She will meet a range of organisations including the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, All Party Parliamentary Group on Zimbabwe, Commonwealth Secretariat and YouGov.

Thomson Reuters will design a bespoke course to cover the following areas of interest: good governance reporting, spokesperson media training, social and multimedia training, press office management, presentation skills training, press release writing, how to raise the profile of your company . She will carry out a full review of the findings of Democratic Audit following the UK Democracy Audit of 2011.

She will also attend an introductory course on Adobe Dreamweaver at Xchange Training in London. SPEAKERS

OLIVER COLVILE MP Conservative

Mr Colvile was born in 1959 into a Royal Naval family, son and grandson of sailors. He went to Stowe public school and joined the Conservative Party’s professional staff at the age of twenty-one. He was agent for Dame Angela Rumbold for ten years and for a number of other prominent MPs and ministers.

In his maiden speech he paid tribute to Dame Angela who died in June 2010, and highlighted the problems of mental health and combat stress in the armed forces, an issue he said he would continue to raise. He also pointed to drugs and alcohol problems in his constituency.

He was elected to the Select Committee on Northern Ireland and is vice-chair of the All-Party Group on the Royal Marines and Vice Chair of the Zimbabwe APPG, visiting Zimbabwe in March 2011 as funded by the CPA UK Fellowship scheme.

Mr Colvile has called for an exit strategy from Afghanistan that would leave the country economically and politically viable. A keen cricket fan, he is a member of the MCC and Surrey County Cricket Club. He is single, and apart from cricket is also interested in rugby and horse racing.

RT HON. LORD FOULKES OF CUMNOCK

Labour

Rt Hon. Lord Foulkes of Cumnock has been a member of the House of Commons, the House of Lords and the Scottish Parliament. Until May 2011 he was a member of both the Lords and the Scottish Parliament but he did not seek re-election to the Scottish Parliament in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.

When Labour won the election in 1997 he was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department for International Development. From February 2001 he was Minister of State for Scotland until the May 2002. Lord Foulkes was made a member of the Privy Council in 2002, and stepped down from office at the 2005 general election.

Lord Foulkes serves as a member of the Executive Committee of CPA UK and Member of the Board of Governors of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy. He was a member of the Intelligence and Security Committee in the Cabinet Office from 2007 to May 2010 and has been a Member of the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy since October 2010. He has also been a member of the Lords EU Select Committee and member of the Lords EU Sub Committee on Social Policy and Consumer Protection since March 2011.

KATE HOEY MP Labour

Miss Hoey has been the Labour Member of Parliament for Vauxhall, South London since a by- election in 1989.

Miss Hoey was born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland and attended the Belfast Royal Academy and the Ulster College of Physical Education before going on to take an economics degree in London.

Miss Hoey was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to Frank Field, the Minister for Welfare Reform, after the election of the Labour Government in 1997. Before then she was a member of the Social Security Select Committee and the Broadcasting Select Committee. In July 1998 Miss Hoey was appointed as a Minister in the Home Office before becoming the UK's first female Sports Minister in 1999 - a position she held until 2001.

Since then she has been an active backbencher promoting the views and interests of her constituents in Parliament. She is very interested in foreign affairs - visiting Sarajevo at the height of the siege, monitoring the first democratic elections in Angola, and visiting Zimbabwe undercover in 2003 and 2005 to investigate the deteriorating political and humanitarian crisis.

Miss Hoey is proudly independent minded and one of the small number of Labour MPs who voted against a ban on hunting, opposed the war in Iraq, renewal of Trident, foundation hospitals, university tuition and top-up fees, ID cards, and extended detention without trial.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Dietary Requirements

Special diets (e.g. vegetarian) will be catered for if CPA UK staff are advised in advance. Please advise a member of CPA UK staff as soon as possible after arrival if you have any dietary requirements. All meals are carefully chosen, and alternative meals at the time of serving will not be possible.

Photography within the Palace of Westminster

Photography is prohibited within the Palace of Westminster with the exception of the CPA Room and Westminster Hall.

CPA UK

The CPA UK Branch office is located at Westminster Hall, Houses of Parliament, London SW1A 0AA.

Contact details:

General office +44 (0)20 7219 5373

Internal extension 5373

Fax +44 (0)20 7233 1202

E-mail [email protected]

Website www.parliament.uk/cpauk

EMBASSY

Zimbabwe Embassy, Zimbabwe House, 429 Strand, London WC2R 0JR

COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION

UNITED KINGDOM BRANCH

Presidents Rt Hon. the Baroness D’Souza CMG Lord Speaker

Rt Hon. John Bercow MP Speaker of the House of Commons

Chairman of the Branch Rt Hon. David Cameron MP Prime Minister

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Chair Rt Hon. Sir Alan Haselhurst MP (Chairperson of CPA International Executive Committee)

Honorary Treasurer Rt Hon. Kevin Barron MP

Vice Chairs Professor Lord McColl of Dulwich CBE Dr Roberta Blackman-Woods MP Mrs Pauline Latham OBE MP

Regional Representative Mr Hugh Bayley MP

Members Rt Hon. Lord Anderson of Swansea DL Rt Hon. Baroness Boothroyd OM Rt Hon. Malcolm Bruce MP Rt Hon. Baroness Corston Lord Dholakia OBE DL Rt Hon. Lord Foulkes Rt Hon. David Hanson MP Baroness Hooper CMG Mr Ian Liddell-Grainger MP Miss Anne McIntosh MP Rt Hon. Alun Michael MP Mr John Robertson MP Mr Andrew Rosindell MP Mr Gavin Williamson MP

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Director Mr Andrew Tuggey DL

Deputy Director Miss Helen Haywood

Assistant Directors Miss Hatty Cooper Mrs Edith David – Finance Miss Ann Hodkinson Mrs Susan Holmes Miss Kirsty Jackson

Operations and Communications Manager Miss Victoria Bower

Senior International Relations Officers Miss Claire Bowman Ms Rachael Cox Miss Morna Richards

International Relations Officers Ms Mariam El-Azm Ms Charlotte Restorick Mr Matthew Salik

Communications Officer Miss Julia Beck

Finance Assistant Mrs Rita Patel

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Every Commonwealth legislature that joins the CPA is invited to form an autonomous CPA branch. This includes not only national legislatures, but state, provincial and territorial legislatures. A truly global body, the CPA currently comprises 175 Branches over 6 continents and in 54 countries worldwide.

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Through activities including conferences, seminars and delegations CPA UK provides members with a practical, current and first-hand perspective on international issues facing fellow parliamentarians across the Commonwealth. This equips them to better scrutinise Government action on foreign affairs and international development issues, and can inform debates in the House. In many cases it also enhances members’ understanding of issues facing diaspora communities in the UK. CPA UK activities often serves as a launch-pad for coordinated international action between parliamentarians, laying the foundations for long-lasting positive relationships between individuals, committees and All Party Parliamentary Groups.