Mapping Peace Initiatives in Zimbabwe

Edited by Adriana Franco Chitanana

Cover photo by Godwin Chigwedere The photo is of two school girls from diferent schools, sharing an umbrella and walking together across a bridge in Buhera District of Manicaland Province.

*The Centre for Confict Management and Transformation (CCMT) is a Zimbabwean Non-Governmental Organisation working in the feld of peace and confict transformation. CCMT has a vision of a Zimbabwe that enjoys peace and harmony created through cooperation and sustainable confict management and transformation in society. To that end, it sees its mission as helping to build a culture of non-violence and peaceful resolution of all forms of confict in Zimbabwe and the SADC region by enhancing the capacity of individuals, organisations and communities to efectively manage and transform their conficts. Table of Contents

6 Abreviations & Acronyms

8 Acknowledgements

10 Introduction

11 How to use this Publication

12 The Sum of the Whole: Refecting on the Bigger Picture

14 Provincial Chapters

16 Bulawayo & Matabeleland South

28 Harare

40 Manicaland

52 Mashonaland Central

62 Mashonaland East

72 Mashonaland West

82 Masvingo

92 Matabeleland North

102 Midlands

114 Database of Organisations Abbreviations and Acronyms

7 Acknowledgments

We would frstly like to thank all of the participating t.BTIPOBMBOE8FTU5BLFTVSF.BTJJXB ;JNCBCXF organisations as they were very trusting to let us Civic Education Trust in and open up to us. They shared their stories, t .BTWJOHP "OP[JWB .VHVUJ .BTWJOHP 6OJUFE experiences and analysis of the situation across Residents and Ratepayers Association the various provinces of Zimbabwe. Without their t .BUBCFMFMBOE /PSUI 'JEFMJT $IJNB )XBOHF input, this project would have been a non-starter. Human Rights Youth Forum; Alfred Sihwa and It is their clear voices and hard work that make this Patience Malaba, Lupane Youth for Development publication noteworthy and we are deeply grateful t.BUBCFMFMBOE4PVUI#VMBXBZP(PEXJO1IJSJ for their time and contributions. Intscha.com We would like to recognise and appreciate the t.JEMBOET7JNCBJ/IVUTWF /BUJPOBM"TTPDJBUJPO hard work and perseverance of the core project of Non-Governmental Organisations – Midlands team composed of staf from the Centre for Confict We are grateful for the work and contributions Management and Transformation (CCMT), Deutsche of Anne Kwakkenbos who supported several Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit of the second round provincial workshops and (GIZ) and National Association of Youth Organisations developed the questionnaire on Youth and Confict (NAYO): Richard Chere, Adriana Franco Chitanana, Transformation. We are also appreciative of the Gladys Madara, Memory Makamba, Stembile guidance that Ronah Mugadza gave the team in Mpofu, Debra Mwase, and Vincent Tafrenyika. We the initial stages as she shared her experience acknowledge Adriana’s work to edit the publication, and advice from the American Friends Service ensuring that loose ends were tied up. We are Committee mapping done in 2009. Additionally, appreciative of the administrative and logistical the project outcomes would not have been so clear support (and smiles) from: Shingirai Cele, Godfrey without the support of Richard Gomo and his team Gwande, Noriah Blandinah Joswa, Farai Mazikana, of data capturers. and Cliford Zuva. And we will always be in debt to Last, but not least, we are grateful for the Margaret Chaikosa and Chiedza Zororo for stepping fnancial and moral support from OxfamNovib and in at a moment’s notice and blending perfectly. GIZ.1 In particular, Denise Parmentier of OxfamNovib Additionally, we cannot go without mentioning the has been very patient and accommodating interns who supported the team whenever tasks throughout the ups and downs of the project and were overwhelming and made life much easier: we appreciate her continuous support and positive Takura Mahanzu, Charity Mupasiri, Jean Pedro, and reactions. We are grateful for the support from Collen Zvandasara. Frieda Pommerehne, Harald Rettner, Masawuko Special thanks go to CCMT director Stembile Maruwacha and Kaspar von Loeben, of the GIZ Mpofu for her guidance, advice and continuous Civil Peace Service who were especially supportive support to the process. She also managed to in the early stages of the process and helped us prioritise the completion of the publication despite get our feet on the ground. Their endorsement of strenuous circumstances and the project team is the project was sustained by Johanna Bucher and very grateful for her fexibility and contributions. Dieter Schreiterer who also prioritised the sound In each province outside of Harare, local completion of the process. organisations supported the project team when it came to selecting the right participants and setting up meetings and workshops. Without their support, we would have failed this monumental task and we 1 The GIZ Civil Peace Service always works with local partners in its are therefore deeply appreciative of the work of the projects in order to identify opportunities for fostering peace which following people and organisations: exist in civil society and to strengthen local forces for nonviolent confict settlement. The vision of CPS is a ‘positive peace’ that is closely t .BOJDBMBOE 4UBO +BDIB 1FBDFCVJMEJOH BOE linked to the concept of justice. Positive peace does not only imply the Capacity Development Foundation absence of physical violence but also the creation and strengthening of participatory and inclusive structures which allow the long-term prevention of the eruption of physical violence. 8 9 Introduction

The process which culminated in this publication profles. Organisations not previously included are began mid-2011. We were searching for information also welcome to request the organisational profle about organisations working in the feld of peace, questionnaire for submission and possible inclusion. especially those operating outside of Harare. We During the mapping, it was necessary to approached several diferent sources and found that invite some provinces to meet together with their none had a comprehensive picture of who is doing neighbouring province because we were not what and where with regard to peace initiatives. able to have two rounds of separate workshops Although they shared information if it was available, for all ten provinces. Bulawayo met together with more often than not, these sources voiced the need Matabeleland South and Mashonaland Central met for thorough research to address the current gap in together with Mashonaland East. As a result of this information. combined approach, Bulawayo and Matabeleland Inspired by the challenge, we began to envision South decided their information should be refected how such information would be gathered and just as it had come out during the workshops and verifed. While developing a strategy and process, we there is a joint chapter refecting this. Nevertheless, realised that such eforts would also present us with Mashonaland Central and Mashonaland East the opportunity to gather more detailed information eventually decided to have separate chapters which about the dynamics particular to each of the ten resulted in some input being repeated across those provinces of Zimbabwe while also mapping active two chapters. organisations. Therefore, aside from producing a The Zimbabwean National Census process directory of peace actors across the country, we also also took place duting the lifespan of our project. focused on developing overviews of each province Each provincial chapter begins with background including: work context, current approaches, success information which was taken from www.zimtrade. stories, operational gap areas and recommendations, co.zw. However we have updated the provincial and priorities with regard to future action. size and population infomation so these fgures Initially, we contacted key organisations in refect the results captured in the Zimabwe National each province to help us identify and select other Statistics Agency Census 2012 Preliminary Report. organisations working on peace initiatives to invite Throughout the ‘Mapping Peace Initiatives in them to participate in provincial research workshops. Zimbabwe’ project, we received an overwhelming The frst round of workshops gathered information amount of positive feedback regarding our focus on through organisational questionnaires coupled the provinces. Practitioners both in and out of Harare with participatory workshop methods. The captured were appreciative that provincial information would data was later brought back to the provinces for be captured in a comprehensive way and made review and verifcation as well as further analysis available to the public. Due to this emphasis, we have which produced recommendations and priorities. decided to let each chapter speak through the voices After these feedback workshops, the information of the participants, without any further analysis than was captured, analysed and then compiled into the what was discussed during the workshop process. provincial chapters contained in this publication. We also felt that including a national analysis Additionally, the information which is refected chapter within this publication would detract from in the last 40 pages of this publication was lifted those voices; readers would be tempted to focus directly from the organisational questionnaires that on an overall picture and skip the details. Therefore, were flled out. This information was later fed back to we have instead provided readers with a chapter the organisation through the feedback workshop and on ‘The Sum of the Whole: Refecting on the Bigger two more rounds of email communication in order Picture’ as a way to address overarching themes to make sure the most correct version is available without detracting from the content captured in the in the publication. Nevertheless, the response rate provinces. regarding additions and corrections was not as high as we had hoped. Therefore, organisations are welcome to submit amendments to already existing 10 How to Use this Publication

This publication can be used as a reference document On Fundraising with two main sections: i) dynamics in the provinces, The publication can be used as a directory and and ii) contact information for organisations working on organisations can fnd contacts and form networks peace initiatives across Zimbabwe. This information can with those operating in the same area to work more be useful to persons working in or interested in the feld efectively and efciently. As a compilation of who is of peacebuilding and confict transformation. In the frst doing what and where, organisations can begin to link section, the provincial chapters were compiled using up and complement each other’s work rather than information collected from actors in each province and compete. This will enhance networking at the provincial include the following sections: and national levels. It can foster collaboration between 1. Provincial Background organisations as they will be able to invite those with 2. Community Needs particular expertise to facilitate workshops, for example. 3. Confict Dynamics Most importantly, the publication provides publicity for 4. Approaches to Peacebuilding organisations outside of Harare, giving them national and 5. Peace Programming international visibility. 6. Youth and Confict Transformation 7. Operational Gaps and Recommendations On Peace Programming 8. Provincial Priorities The end product will assist with fundraising because 9. Points of Contact for Peace Initiatives in the Province of content development. The reference document will support funding applications and justify support for The second section of the publication contains a database community needs. Collaborations amongst organisations of organisations working on peace initiatives in Zimbabwe. can begin to support coordinated fundraising. The The organisations are listed in alphabetical order and their priorities of each province can be worked on and provide profles include: organisation name, province where they the beginnings of proposal material development. With are based, when it was established, registration status, increased visibility, donors will also recognise and support point of contact, physical address, email, phone number, the work that is still required. website, main focus of work, involvement in peace initiatives, geographical coverage, and target group(s). The product is an answer to qualitative research During the process of information collection, and it will assist with situation mapping to inform the participants also outlined how they might programme design because it provides academically use the publication and what follows is their sound background information and a baseline situation vision of what this process could contribute to. analysis. Organisations will know the nature of conficts and where they take place. The publication will be useful On Information Sharing to quote as part of the ‘rationale’ of planned work. The The publication can be used as a reference document needs of communities sections will help identify gaps for researchers and used in schools for reference in programming and inform and improve current and and study. It can also be given to public and private future initiatives based on the key issues raised. It can libraries for further information dissemination. The be a basis for solutions, a guide to avoid duplication of essential aspect of the document is that it contains work and assist in workshop planning. Organisations learning from other provinces. We can learn what they can also use the product to guide follow-up activities are doing and how they recommend resolving certain and to implement priorities and recommendations gaps. Although currently limited, mutual learning is that came out of the process. The publication can vital, especially as there are many common thematic also assist in monitoring and evaluation of impact. areas. Aside from sharing the publication with other organisations, we will use translations into vernacular On Peacebuilding The publication can be used both as a source and tool for On Network Building confict resolution. It can assist with justifcation for the to work with communities and catalyse interactive existence of peace actors. The content can also support discussions. In this way, the publication is a tool which eforts to build peace infrastructure since actors have can create discussions within communities and across already been identifed. The points raised also help us any divides which may exist. begin to think of ethical considerations such as Do No Harm. We should also take this to parliament to ignite discussion. It can be used as an advocacy tool to approach policy makers and assist in policy formulation.

11 The Sum of the Whole: Refecting on the Bigger Picture Written by: Stembile Mpofu After meeting representatives from NGOs working required knowledge and skills. The research reveals in all ten provinces of Zimbabwe and collecting that community leaders, both traditional and their perspectives on the peacebuilding work they elected, propagate and exacerbate conficts in their are carrying out, what has emerged is a complex areas of jurisdiction by exercising their powers in a collage of the state of Zimbabwe. It is a refection partisan way. This bias may be infuenced by politics, of the daily lives of ordinary Zimbabweans, the religion or ethnicity. There is a need to assess and majority living far away from the capital city Harare, improve the level of knowledge that exists within where Parliament sits and the head ofces for the leaders to exercise their role in the practice of Judiciary, and Government Ministries are located. In governance because they remain the interface other words, most Zimbabweans live far away from between national government and the people. the place where the decisions that afect their lives Policy makers can put into place faultless policies are made. but where implementers are unable to execute them A broad interpretation of peacebuilding has or do so in partisan ways, it afects what community emerged, stemming from the recognition that for members experience and they are likely to remain Zimbabwe to be at peace, work will be required in dissatisfed with government policy. As yet, no many diferent areas. The needs that have been consistent mechanism exists within government to articulated as priority areas by communities go ensure that traditional and elected leaders are given beyond the need for an absence of violence and an orientation on their roles and responsibilities as are focused on issues of economic empowerment, leaders and thereafter continuous updates on policy access to and beneft from various resources in implementation for which they are responsible. An their provinces like land, minerals and timber. opportunity exists for a close partnership between Peacebuilding for Zimbabwe will therefore need a NGOs and government in this area of leadership coordinated approach that sees the three sectors development and capacity building. of government, business and civil society working Linked closely to the area of leadership together to build peace. Currently, linkages between development at community level, is the issue of the three sectors are limited and as refected in civic participation. This topic needs to be broken the chapters, tensions exist between Civil Society down to its lowest denominator if eforts are to Organisations and government, which see some have an efect on how Zimbabwean communities of the work carried out by CSOs being afected by build peace. Examining how community members conditions set down by government departments. behave during situations they deal with in their An example of the disconnect that exists between daily lives can provide insight into the quality of government, the business sector and civil society a community’s civic participation. This links very can be seen with regard to the Indigenisation policy. closely with service delivery issues; for example, how Little understanding exists within communities on a community participates in the running of their local the Indigenisation policy and how it can beneft school or clinic. Does the community appreciate its ordinary citizens. A lack of information from both responsibility in ensuring that the administrative government and the business sector has caused systems of the school are being run transparently conficts around the issue of community share trusts and that the school administration is accountable? with community leaders lacking a full appreciation What expectations does a community have of of how the share trust system will work and beneft itself and its local leaders? If corrupt behaviour is the community. The study refects the need for more acceptable within their sphere of infuence, it is information on policies, such as the Indigenisation unlikely that those community members would be policy, to allow community members to be able motivated to confront these tendencies outside to fully participate in and beneft from national their sphere of infuence, at the district, provincial or programmes. national levels. It is also unlikely that any leaders that In order for policies to be well implemented, emerge from that community will feel the pressure there is need for those who are tasked with policy to uphold honesty and integrity while knowing that implementation to be well equipped with the the community will be reluctant to ask very much of 12 them. Zimbabweans need to work together to avoid such consequences. The issue of devolution of power emerged as a priority area in Bulawayo and Matebeleland Provinces. Beneath this desire are strong feelings of marginalisation and the unresolved issue of the Gukurahundi massacres that took place in the 1980’s. It is within these provinces, and subsequently across the other provinces of Zimbabwe, that violence has been used to gain political power. Its efects have devastated many communities; deep divisions exist among members of the same community, making them unable to work together for their own development. The report has highlighted the need for a process of reconciliation to take place nationally in Zimbabwe so as to contribute to peacebuilding. Most signifcantly however, is that the envisioned process allows each community to defne its own course of action so that they maintain ownership of the process. This need will have to be considered very seriously by any national reconciliation process that will be implemented in future. So as to encourage a close partnership between the three sectors of government, business and civil society to achieve a peaceful Zimbabwe, each sector will need deep introspection in order to assess their various strengths and weaknesses. In this way, clarity can be reached on what needs to be improved in their work, what assistance can be ofered to other sectors and ultimately what holistic peacebuilding service each can ofer to Zimbabweans as a whole. This publication already contains a sincere introspection by various NGOs working in the area of peacebuilding which highlights both strengths and weaknesses within the sector. These include funding challenges, conficts within some of the organisations themselves and a reluctance to harmonise activities. These are areas will need to be addressed if NGOs are to continue making a diference to the communities they work in as refected in the success stories shared throughout the chapters. Similar challenges will exist within the government and business sectors and it is sincerely hoped that this refection of the status quo will provide an initial step to strengthening existing linkages and creating new ones in an efort to build peace in Zimbabwe.

13 14 15 16 17 BULAWAYO and MATABELELAND SOUTH PROVINCES Compiled by: Gladys Madara, Chiedza Zororo Provincial Background European Market. Nevertheless, there are some Bulawayo Province other products which have a great potential of Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe, being exported. The province is located in the after the capital Harare, with an area of 479 sq South Western region of Zimbabwe. It has seven km and a population of 655,677.1 It is located in districts which are: Beitbridge, Bulilima, Gwanda, Matabeleland, 439 km south-west of Harare, and *OTJ[B .BOHXF .BUPCP BOE 6N[JOHXBOF2 is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland. Bulawayo is a multicultural city with Community Needs residents able to speak at least three languages Communities in Bulawayo and Matabeleland South (including English, Ndebele, Shona, Kalanga, Sotho, provinces need access to their basic social rights. Nambya, Tonga and Venda). Bulawayo has long The education sector needs of some reforms as been regarded as the business capital of Zimbabwe access to relevant and afordable education is and is home to the National Railways of Zimbabwe scarce. Accessibility is a major challenge since because of its strategic position near Botswana and primary schools are estimated to be 11km apart South Africa. It is the nearest large city to Hwange while secondary schools are 17km apart, leading National Park, Matopo National Park and Victoria to school children having to walk long distances. Falls. The majority of the population of Bulawayo There is also an outcry regarding ‘A’ level studies belong to the Ndebele ethnic and language group, as the schools ofering education at that level, are who descend from a 19th century Zulu migration. not properly equipped and need upgrading. The The city was founded by the Ndebele king, uMzilikazi communities in Matabeleland South particularly kaMatshobana around 1840 after the Ndebele call for the promotion of local languages, such people’s great trek from Zululand. During the 1893 as Venda and Sotho, in schools and it should Matabele War the invasion by British South Africa start in teacher training institutes to facilitate the Company troops led the then king, Lobengula to employment of qualifed teachers from local areas fee from his burning capital and head north, BSAC who are accustomed to the culture in the area. troops and white settlers occupied the town. On 4 The provinces also need the inclusion of human November 1893, Leander Starr Jameson declared rights and peacebuilding in the school curriculum Bulawayo a settlement under the rule of the British at primary and secondary level. This would go a South Africa Company and Cecil John Rhodes long way in the promotion of sustainable peace. ordered that the new settlement be built on the Both provinces need for training schools, colleges ruins of Lobengula’s royal town, which is where the and universities to ofer a variety of programmes State House stands today. In 1897, the new town including medicine and law. Transparency in the of Bulawayo acquired the status of municipality, Basic Education Assistance Module is also needed. Col. Harry White became the frst mayor, and There is need to depoliticise service delivery. For in 1943, Bulawayo became a city. Bulawayo is instance, the Mtshabezi Dam is there but is not made up of the following districts Bulawayo activated due to politics. There are also disparities Central, Imbizo, Mzilikazi, Reigate and Khami. in allocation of resources for development due to politics. Communities need adequate Matabeleland South Province electricity supply coupled with a billing system Matabeleland South Province covers an area of which accurately refects usage. Infrastructure 54,172 sq km and a population of 685,046. The development and maintenance is needed with capital of the province is Gwanda. Because the regards to the electricity grid; this is especially true province sits on the edge of the Kalahari Desert it in rural Matabeleland South in areas like Matobo is a drought-prone area. It is well known for being and Gwanda. Water system development is needed the former number one exporter of beef to the in terms of dams being constructed, rehabilitation

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18 BULAWAYO AND MATABELELAND SOUTH PROVINCES of existing boreholes, and revival of the Zambezi and cleansing ceremonies as a way of healing past Water Project. Clarity is needed on roles of ZINWA and present wounds. Any Truth, Reconciliation and and City Council as there are conficts around the Justice mechanism would need to be driven by issue. Timely collection of refuse is also a concern. local communities. At a higher level, there should Communities need legal representation, be restructuring and operationalisation of ONHRI information, education and assistance to claim their so that it is not under government control. Political legal rights. This will help to create an environment will for these processes should be visible as leaders of justice so that rule of law prevails. Another from the region unite on the issue. pertinent issue is on civil registration especially with Communities call for a culture of good and regard to National Identity cards, passports and birth sustainable corporate governance to be brought certifcates. There is need for decentralisation of the into state, private and civil society organisations and Registrar General in order to easily facilitate printing institutions. There is need for respectful distribution and corrections. There is also a need to integrate the of power and representation, especially in the people and descendants from Zambia and Malawi parliament. There should be clarity and sustainability who have been in Zimbabwe for decades and are regarding commissions and organs set up by the referred to as ‘alien’. Some of these persons were (/65IFDPNNVOJUJFTJO.BUBCFMFMBOE4PVUIBOE even born in Zimbabwe but are still considered Bulawayo call for devolution and separation of aliens while Zimbabweans in those ‘alien’ countries power. The governance structures in place need to have being integrated. be accountable and properly adhere to policies to Health systems which are afordable, accessible ensure that rule of law prevails. and efcient are needed in the provinces. Emphasis Communities indicate that leaders need to is put on access to equipment, pharmaceutical take up the responsibility of ensuring peace in the supplies and infrastructure for health education. communities rather that being the ones who incite Advocacy around accessible maternal services is confict or violence. They should dismantle systems called for as there are large distances between clinics. and structures of discrimination. This would ensure Communities in the region need food security as a free, protected and safe electoral environment. they have been afected by drought which in turn Education for local government representatives also afects livelihoods of people as livestock is sold is noted as important. For instance, there is need at low prices. There is need for re-stocking which for proper training of traditional leaders on should be subsidised by the government so the communication and relationship skills in order for province can supply an export again. The irrigation them to efectively do their work. Local autonomy, scheme also needs to be revived and there should capacity, and diferentiating between the roles and be awareness-raising around environmental issues the responsibilities of various local leadership is and climate change as these also afect food security. identifed as a long term need. Transitional Justice Issues are identifed as Communities want all aspects of life essential. Communities highlight truth, recovery, depoliticised. Politics should not afect communities justice, reparations, disclosures, closure and when dealing with developmental issues, access to reconciliation as critical to move forward. For resources, food and distribution of land. There is also instance, it is important for the Gukurahundi a plea for equal standards when it comes to state massacres to be acknowledged by leadership as institutions and the security sector (police, army, it is a root cause of violence. CSOs should gather CIO) as the politicisation of this sector has killed baseline statistics in order to defend the truth about the economy. The same goes for the recognition Gukurahundi. There is need for rehabilitation and of liberation heroes, it should be based on actions integration of the victims and perpetrators, including and not afliation to political parties. Non-partisan the internally displaced to be part of the process of work ethics with regard to CSOs, local leadership rebuilding relationships in the communities. This and the justice system are also noted as essential process should also integrate psycho-social support for development in communities. 19 MAPPING PEACE INTIATIVES IN ZIMBABWE

The need for the communities to own and Confict Dynamics control their own resources is important for In Matabeleland South and Bulawayo provinces, community development. Initiatives developed conficts which are political in nature have been such as cattle ranching, calf loans, and livestock observed. Gukurahundi issues have been a bone production are supposed to beneft the locals. of contention. Politically motivated violence during This can also improve access to fnance and job elections and efects of Operation Murambatsvina creation. In this sense, there is also need for re- were witnessed in the provinces as in many others. industrialisation to support and empower the local Related to this issue are intra and interpersonal economy. Communities should have access to and conficts. People are harbouring grief, anger, and beneft from natural resources. More funds are trauma rising from state engineered and sponsored needed as initiatives are generally under-funded violence and repression. The land reform caused in the province. National budget allocation should violence since benefciaries were not from the be clear and transparent according to needs. To this local area. This also happened during Operation end, community resources should be mapped and Garikai whereby those who beneftted from the awareness-raising created around them. housing scheme were not victims of Operation Communities want respect for their languages, Murambatsvina. Politicisation of development culture and values. In relation to that, they also initiatives also causes confict, for instance the need freedom of communication and expression selective distribution of food or seed relief such as through their community media such as radio and the presidential seeds and the grain loan scheme. newsprints. They need locally owned databases for There are also intra and inter party conficts, hate historical memory and justice through collection speech, malice, exploitation of youth, violence and of information and documentation as a process politicisation of service delivery. There is need to of decentralising memorialisation. They also need prevent political confict of Ndebele people versus platforms to air out what happened and discuss other tribes in the region. For example, there is freely and openly in order to map out solutions discrimination of Sotho in Gwanda. Delineation of on how to move forward. With regards to culture, political constituencies has also caused confict. recreational and leisure facilities such as parks An example of this is Mberengwa and Insiza should be resuscitated. constituencies which keep changing sizes. As a community development practitioner I have Our organisation was established in order to help derived inspiration from the collective eforts and communities transform conficts and rebuild commitment of ordinary men and women to strive themselves for the success of their societies. We seek for a confict free environment and communities. to help communities build democratic and well- This has been done through caring and working governed structures that have the capacity to protect together despite their diverse cultural, political and women and children against political violence. With socio-economic background. the support of the community leadership, we were able to set up local peace committees and facilitate Empowerment of communities is strongly important community meetings to create dialogue echoed as a vital need. Communities should be that unlocked the issues of confict. Twenty-four empowered to make decisions, for example on the local peace community meetings were held which issue of devolution of centralised power structures greatly infuenced local chiefs to be more inclusive to localities. Education and awareness-raising of women and youth in their communities. of local communities on human rights, confict management, health, climate change and civic 6OEFSUPOFT PG USJCBM GBWPVSJUJTN JOøVFODJOH education in general is a pertinent need. This can be decision making at all levels has been a cause of achieved through trainings and capacity building. confict, oftentimes with Shona pitted against In general, the empowerment models need to be Ndebele. There is already a culture that has been improved so they can focus on individuals and developed whereby any vice or deputy position is households. supposed to be Ndebele, while the white people are assigned the role of advisors. In the case of state 20 BULAWAYO AND MATABELELAND SOUTH PROVINCES security, those forces should be deployed in the issues are tackled. Capacity building of chiefs and region they come from as language and cultural other community leaders is undertaken as people barriers can afect efciency and instigate confict. approach chiefs and other leaders when faced Conficts often arise with the trivialisation of other with conficts. Trainings on good rural governance languages such as Kalanga, Tonga, Sotho, Nambya, and confict management empower communities Venda, and Shangaan and also the issue of Ndebele to deal with arising situations. Campaigns are key language being taught by non-Ndebele speakers in raising awareness on issues. Campaigns against in schools. There has been a deliberate dilution of Gender Based Violence disseminate information language and culture through government policies. in diferent ways including poetry, theatre and The 51% black empowerment (indigenisation) talk shows. Peace tournaments are also carried policy already discriminates the white, coloured out as various sports bring people together which and Indian Zimbabweans making it a source of promotes positive community interactions. Peace confict. The case of marginalisation of the region prayers, rallies and demonstrations are part of is also a problem with state level, civic society and violence prevention mechanisms in communities. donor approaches all having centralised systems in Hotspot tracking is also done to look out for potential Harare. confict situations in targeted communities. The de-industrialisation of Matabeleland has Counselling, psycho-social support and caused conficts which are economic in nature. mediation are usually used as methods of solving There has been exploitation and looting of natural conficts at family and community levels while resources such as extraction of minerals to develop lobbying leadership and encouraging participation other regions with environmental degradation left in in national issues such as debates on national its wake, and in some cases invasion of sacred places. healing are used on the macro level. Research and There have been conficts between communities documentation is performed in order to prepare for and the Environmental Management Agency (EMA). and set up issue-specifc trainings. In some confict Repossession of mining claims needs to be done situations, access to legal services (litigation) transparently. Employment opportunities have is an important means of resolving conficts. been denied to locals, preferring to bring workers Organisations working in same ward should identify from other regions such as Mashonaland. There is synergies which would further their work. insufcient funding for developmental projects In all eforts to resolve conficts in the provinces, in Matabeleland, over centralisation regarding communities are involved through diferent the control of resources and issues of corruption. structures and strategies. Existing structures include These also include the under-investment and lack community peace committees and peace gardens. of infrastructure in the education and health sector. Strategies involve community mobilisation and Donors need to decentralise or adopt a quota system planning peace initiatives involving community to take care of marginalised regions. Sustainable leaders and members. In some communities, development of the region would resolve economic youth are put in charge of programmes and conficts. The dollarisation process has been a cause the whole community is involved in talk shows. of confict since people lost their savings, pensions and medical aid. Issues of property buying, licensing, Over the past 10 years I have been working with public transport and police have been sources of volunteers and what it inspires me is the positive confict in the region. attitude I see in them and our contributions towards positive change. I have learnt that conficts, big or Approaches to Peacebuilding small, can be resolved simply through dialogue. In Dialogue is used to resolve conficts in Bulawayo any confict it is important to communicate. and Matabeleland South Provinces. Community members are encouraged to speak about Gukurahundi. Inter-faith and inter-cultural dialogues are promoted as religious and cultural 21 MAPPING PEACE INTIATIVES IN ZIMBABWE

Peace Programming pioneer initiatives in confict transformation. Youth Organisations in the Bulawayo and Matabeleland can make a meaningful contribution to confict South provinces focus on several areas of work transformation if they are empowered to stand including: advocacy and lobbying, research up against being used to perpetrate violence. and writing, documentation, capacity building, Peacebuilding initiatives through civic education information sharing and dissemination, youth and capacity building in confict transformation empowerment, poverty eradication and sustainable will enable youth to contribute positively to community development, good governance, peacebuilding in Zimbabwe. legal assistance, confict transformation, gender One of the key lessons in our programming is that awareness, human rights monitoring, child project sustainability is linked to the extent to which protection, community media and HIV/AIDS the community is involved in planning. A number awareness. In the two provinces, work is mainly of young people participated in our activities and done through, community meetings, workshops, thereafter, some of them started peace initiatives. focus group discussions, sport, political education, Young women developed and lead a community dialogue, media, art and literature. The most frequent group which seeks to promote integration and target groups for the provinces are youth. Women, community healing through arts. This group is community or traditional leaders, children below youth-led and also funded by the young people in the age of 17 and general community members the community. are also targeted. The benefciaries are usually met on a monthly basis with some meeting them daily There is limited youth participation in confict and others weekly. The most common outcomes transformation processes as they lack awareness, expected from their work are: communities living education and interest in peacebuilding initiatives. in peace and tranquillity, improved community Culturally, young people are not encouraged to and multi-stakeholder participation, empowered voice their opinions, and when they do they are not communities with capacity to deal with confict, taken seriously by their elders. The communities in sustainable livelihood and community development Matabeleland South and Bulawayo also mentioned and respect for human rights regardless of race, that the political environment afects objective age or gender. The most frequently mentioned participation of youth in confict transformation. gaps identifed in the confict transformation Tribal conficts also have a bearing on the programmes are: lack of fnancial resources, lack contribution of youth to confict transformation of knowledge and education including confict processes. transformation, inadequate collaboration amongst Domestic policy can shape and determine stakeholders and lack of technical capacity. the scope and limitations of the role of youth in confict transformation. Some opportunities are Youth and Confict Transformation opening up through the Zimbabwe Youth Council In the provinces, youth is understood as describing and young people are being educated about individuals between the ages of 15 and 35 years. confict transformation in schools. However, current Youth are involved in projects and programmes domestic policies were formed on political grounds through participation in capacity building and coordinated at national level. As such, they workshops, meetings to discuss issues afecting do not contribute constructively to peacebuilding them as well as developing possible solutions and and the impact of policies depends on the fair ways forward. In communities, some youth are implementation of mechanisms. viewed as perpetrators and victims of violence. They have played an active role in political violence and have also been used by people in civic society to be in the frontline during street protests. However, it was noted that young people are the majority of the population and a powerful group that could 22 23 MAPPING PEACE INTIATIVES IN ZIMBABWE

Operational Gaps and Recommendations

Level Gap/ Challenge Recommendation 1. 1. Organisational 1. Lack of appropriate skills/technical 1. Create synergies, network with well established knowledge in implementation of organisations, capacity building for human peacebuilding resources 2. Lack of resources e.g. money for 2. Share programmes with others, formulate programmes, transport, proper new strategies of resource mobilisation and ofces. Lack of equipment i.e. ofce fundraising, start income generating projects furniture, computers 3. Creation of groups and networks, build 3. Selfshness and disjointed capacities of organisations to implement peace programming initiatives, look at existing networks to analyse 4. Inability to attract funding and address gaps and challenges 5. High staf turnover 4. Need for proper planning, engage government 6. Changes at organisational level to change its attitude towards NGOs, engage 7. Lack of branding (sustainability) by donor community, capacitate organisations to organisations get funds from localities, income generation, approach local businesses 5. Improve remuneration, improve management system 6. Change management, skills for self-sustenance 7. Identify mandate and stick to it instead of changing according to ‘hot topics’. 1. 1. Community 1. Lack of access to information on 1. Civic education provided to the community confict transformation 2. Depoliticise development programmes 2. Politicisation of developmental 3. Create supportive structures, create synergies issues 4. Training and capacity building on roles and 3. Duplication of development responsibilities, visionary leadership connected initiatives with communities, lobbying for candidate 4. Biased leadership screening standards 5. Lack of participation 5. Community empowerment through capacity 6. Lack of buy-in from community building leader and authorities 6. Create a good working relationship with local 7. Resistance by community authorities members, lack of ownership of 7. Practice a bottom up approach in programmes by communities programming, initiatives should come from 8. Polarisation of communities community 9. Lack of coordination 8. Building awareness through advocacy, 10. Poverty afecting participation community confdence building 11. Ownership of communities by 9. Strengthen NANGO, environmental scanning of politicians and ZRP causing denial who is doing what and where of access 10. Approach to community needs are essential for relevance and sustainability 11. Change of laws

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1. 1. Provincial 1. Confict over boundaries 1. Restructuring of boundaries, engage policy 2. Failure to penetrate some areas makers, engage communities 3. Lack of synergies, duplication of 2. Engage local authorities e.g. PA, DA, Headman, eforts chiefs and those giving power to the local 4. Lack of fnancial resources, looting authorities of resources, funding comes 3. Create synergies through Harare 4. Decentralisation of resources, they should 5. Lack of accuracy, efciency and come directly to Matabeleland proper representation and service 5. Strengthen advocacy on devolution of power of citizens 1. 1. National 1. ‘One size fts all’ approach 1. Wider consultation and region-specifc 2. Centralisation programming 3. 6OTUBCMFQPMJUJDBMFOWJSPONFOU 2. Decentralisation of decision making 4. No structured programming or 3. Civic education to resolve political instability in outline for peace initiatives the community 4. Develop a standardised approach to peace initiatives 1. 1. Resources 1. Donor absence in Matabeleland 1. Afrmative action for donor funding to favour 2. Most programmes are donor driven traditionally marginalised 3. Centralisation and lack of 2. Programmes should be based on needs on the sustainable funding for sustainable ground, more infuence on donor thinking to programmes address needs, start with baseline study 4. Donor fatigue and fight 3. Decentralisation of funds 5. Donor fund cost of activities vs. 4. Self-reliance should be encouraged. Network vision of organisation with well-established organisations to scout for things like equipment i.e. furniture, computers 5. Funding should be according to vision of organisation, not activity oriented

Provincial Priorities The communities of Matabeleland South and Communities can be educated while conducive Bulawayo want Matabeleland to be declared a environments for conficting groups to dialogue are separate state as a frst priority to creating peace created. Devolution of power is also a priority while in the region. They indicate that a lot of conficts respect for human rights and engaging in character will be prevented and solved in this way. The bone building for children are also important to create of contention are the ethnicity divides between peace in the regions. the Shona and Ndebele which has continuously perpetuated selective distribution of resources and opportunities. Peace can also be built through awareness-raising on peaceful co-existence and its advantages i.e. development, prosperity.

25 Points of Contact for Peace Initiatives in Bulawayo and Matabeleland South Provinces: Bulawayo Abammeli Lawyers Network AFROMEDIA Bulawayo Agenda Bulawayo Integrated Youth Survival Alternative Project Children Solutions Centre Trust Christian Legal Society of Zimbabwe Churches in Bulawayo Emmaus International Habakkuk Trust Ibhetshu Likazulu Intscha.com Masakhaneni Projects Trust Mission to Live Trust Radio Dialogue Trust Shalom Project Trust Youth Network for Alternative Development - Youth NAD Zimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy Associations Zimbabwe Human Rights Association Zimbabwe Research and Public Forum ;JNCBCXF8SJUFST6OJPO

Matabeleland South Kulani Trust Media Institute of Southern Africa - Matabeleland South Plumtree Development Trust Plumtree Pastors Fraternal Plumtree Residents and Development Association Public Information Rights Forum 6CVOUV:PVUIJO%FWFMPQNFOU Youth in Mining

26 27 28 29 HARARE PROVINCE Compiled by: Debra Mwase

Provincial Background to the exercise of government powers. In Harare, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a communities need access to correct information province covering the greater Harare area and that depicts a truthful picture of what is happening. Chitungwiza. Nicknamed the Sunshine City, Currently, the media is polarised and this puts the Zimbabwe’s capital is the seat of government and public in a difcult position as they cannot access largest city. The province has an area of 872 sq km truthful information from the press which is the and a population of 2,098,199. It is Zimbabwe’s major source of public information. In a normal largest city and its administrative, commercial, democracy, leaders are accountable to the citizens and communications nerve centre. Politically the that they represent. As such, people in Harare need province is an MDC-T stronghold, currently the to continuously engage with local leadership, party holds all the province’s constituencies save for particularly the local authority and the Harare POFCFJOHIFMECZUIF;"/61'QBSUZ)BSBSFIBTB City Council, regarding issues to do with good pleasant subtropical highland climate. The average governance. annual temperature is 17.95 °C, rather low for the Citizens in Harare need civic education tropics, and this is due to its high altitude position including on what politics is really about, this will 1 and the prevalence of a cool south-easterly airfow. enable citizens to efectively participate in their governance. Communities need to know what Community Needs exactly their place is in the governance process. Zimbabwe has accumulated history of socio- They desire to be equipped with the necessary tools political oppression, repression and ongoing that would enable them to engage with national, trauma which has had a profound and continuing regional and international bodies should dialogue efect on diferent categories of people in society. with their local leadership fail. For instance, Communities in Harare need psycho-social support, DPNNVOJUJFT OFFE JOGPSNBUJPO PO UIF 6/4$3 healing, empowerment and reconnection in order 1325 on Women, Peace and Security its contents, to address the trauma they have sufered. Youth applicability, language to use and communication played a negative role during the episodes of TUSVDUVSFTPGUIFCPEJFTMJLFUIF6/UPCFBCMFUP political violence and are in need of rehabilitation. engage these and make their messages relevant. There should be projects aimed at assisting youth and ofering them alternative confict resolution Economic empowerment is needed in the methods. Communities in Harare have had to live Harare Metropolitan area. Most government with the reminder of the violence that deeply divided empowerment initiatives fail to reach people on the communities in 2008. This gives rise to the need the ground as they become hijacked by political for some form of skills enhancement in basic confict parties. Examples of empowerment projects that management training. People in Harare also expect the communities need include: nutrition gardens, the police to carry out its mandate of protecting entrepreneurship skills empowerment so as to them efectively and to apply the law in just manner ensure sustainable livelihoods. People in Harare are without fear or favour. still in great need of gainful employment. Formal employment was the major source of reliable income The province needs vibrant democratic for most families in Harare before the fourishing of institutions that embrace the principle of informal and backyard industries in the capital due accountability, participation, transparency, and to economic collapse. Farming activities also need integrity which allow for grassroots participation. to be around the city as agriculture is a proftable There is need to provide open, democratic safe venture. Currently, land is the means of production spaces where people can freely exercise their in Zimbabwe and urban dwellers want a share of it, constitutional rights. In an open and democratic especially the farms surrounding Harare that have community there is free press which keeps the been acquired by the government. Communities public informed and provides checks and balances in Harare also expect to beneft from the mineral 1. Accessed on: http://www.parlzim.gov.zw/attachments/article/128/ resources of the country like diamonds. Through Harare%20Provincial%20Profle.pdf 30 HARARE economic empowerment they can be rid of the were political in nature and a few socio-cultural prevailing donor dependency syndrome that the conficts were tied to the economic deprivation of province is facing. society. There is need to understand, respect and Land has been a major source of confict in uplift youth as they are key members of society. Harare, as urban dwellers have tried to beneft from Currently youth are facing limited livelihoods the land reform programme. The communities options, are the most vulnerable group to HIV and view the land redistribution process as marred by are usually blamed for the violence and criminal greediness and that farmland around Harare was not activities that communities face. There is need to enough to cater for its growing population. Another redefne the role of youth in nation building as well dimension of the land confict is the ambiguity in as reduce their vulnerability to social and political the tenure system. This has been observed mainly vices. Economic empowerment would ofer youth in Epworth Ward 7 where it is not clear who owns alternative livelihood strategies so that they are the land: the Methodist Church or the Local Board. not vulnerable to manipulation by politicians. Land is being used to gain political support and It was a dream come true when we became a legally only members of one party are benefting from the registered organisation, registration was difcult land reform programme. The implementation of the as there were no funds. All we had was a young, economic empowerment and indigenisation policy passionate, vibrant and strong team that is fully is a source of confict in the province and causes committed and passionate about OVC’S and young violence. In Mbare, ownership of open spaces, as people. We frst worked with Precious Jewels from in other suburbs, is highly contested. Harare City Mufakose; having our frst ever children’s home to $PVODJM BOE 6QGVNJ LV7BEJLJ B NJMJUBOU ZPVUI work with was exciting. We had a team building FNQPXFSNFOUHSPVQDMPTFMZBMJHOFEUP;"/61' retreat on education because it had been brought to are currently in confict over the Easipark deal. our attention that the children’s school grades were Harare province is the cultural melting pot of dropping. Through the exercise, we discovered the the country and conficts arise with regard to culture reasons behind the dropping grades were because particularly on issues to do with gender equality and of chores at home, ill treatment and abuse. After the social construction of the ideal woman. Much of the retreat, we noticed and received feedback that these conficts have been caused by the prevalence grades of most of the children had improved. of patriarchy which is rooted in dominance of men over women. Some people have ascribed this Communities in Harare need afordable confict as caused by the generation gaps in the and reliable social services from council such as: community with the older generation holding onto functional water and sanitation systems, well past social norms and practices whilst the younger equipped health facilities, schools that ofer generation tries to adopt a ‘modern’ and European the highest quality of education possible and type of lifestyle. This confict has manifested itself recreational facilities. Harare province residents in the form of physical violence in the home with need access to basic food commodities at afordable majority of female murder victims being killed by prices. The province has a large commuter labour their partners. Other causes of domestic conficts force that needs a safe, reliable and afordable observed are due to fnancial issues and infdelity. public transport system especially in metropolitan areas like Chitungwiza, Epworth and Ruwa which The city contains a mixture of races and tribes are currently being serviced by private operators. which has led to various conficts related to the issue of tribalism. These conficts are rooted in Confict Dynamics issues of unfulflled needs, inequalities, disparities The conficts observed in Harare province are mainly in the allocation of resources, marginalisation and witnessed in high density suburbs such as Mbare, unfairness. The conficts are mainly between Shona Highfeld, Mabvuku, Epworth, Budiriro, Glen View and Ndebele tribes. Ndebeles feel they are being and Dzivarasekwa. Many of the conficts observed discriminated against because they are the minority.

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The issue of tribalism is a concern in various sectors factionalism is rife in all the major political parties. including the economic sector and the political Retributive violence has also been observed as arena. victims of political violence seek revenge against Social vices like theft, rape, murder, and perpetrators. This shows a need for national healing. assault have been observed in places like Mbare Political leadership should add their voices to the where they are oftentimes being perpetrated current reconciliation discourse. CZ $IJQBOHBOP 5IF ;"/6 1' BMJHOFE ZPVUI Communities are also in confict with local militia group has been accused of abusing their authorities regarding the quality of representation political power by committing various crimes in by ofcials and have gone on to question the the suburb with impunity and under the guise legitimacy of their election. Residents feel that of politics. Vandalism of community facilities like their leaders are corrupt and only concerned with swimming pools and boreholes have also led to enriching themselves as opposed to delivering conficts in the area. It appears as if not all residents meaningful change to residents’ lives. For instance, view these facilities as centres for development residents complain that leaders allocate residential and lack a sense of ownership of the properties. and commercial stands to themselves and their During the 16 days against gender based violence associates which they in turn resell to residents at and together with hundreds of young women (and exorbitant prices. Conficts between elected and some older women and men), we marched against appointed councillors arise as they often clash over rape. The atmosphere of young women driven by the policy issues. Elected councillors have often pointed need to speak out and protest against the violation out that special interest (appointed) councillors of such a basic and undeniable important human do not have the mandate from the people and right, namely the violation of one’s intimacy, one’s therefore should have limited powers in terms of self control and one’s own being, was stunning. Those decision-making. young women and men were united. The march cut Communities in Harare feel their constitutional through all separations in terms of religion, culture, rights are not being adequately respected, for language and any other diferences one can think example freedom of association and assembly. of. During this march, everyone participating had The major cause of this is the interpretation of the the same goal and same objectives. It made us feel provisions of POSA which are being used by the so proud. We showed the world that many voices police to bar lawful gatherings. When residents can come together as one and (at least for just that seek clearance from the police they are often told moment) we could make a diference. that they cannot conduct the meeting since the The issue of diverse political ideologies and police do not have enough manpower to secure the lack of tolerance has resulted in confict between venue. Although religious gatherings are exempted diferent political parties. The conficts are usually from POSA, police stopped a prayer meeting in characterised by violent acts that lead to physical Glen Norah and several people were arrested for injuries and destruction of property. Youth violating the law. were overwhelmingly singled out as the major The security sector is polarised. The police do perpetrators of political violence. Residents noted not apply the law in a uniform manner as some that they experience not only violent acts but also people commit crimes with impunity. Police are threats. There is general ignorance over the meaning seen as key drivers of corruption as they constantly of politics among the youth as they have only been receive bribes from criminals committing various exposed to violent methods of political persuasion. crimes in the community. Communities in Harare also Intra-party conficts have been observed in observed polarisation of Civil Society Organisations Harare; party members try to position themselves (CSOs) as a major driver of confict. It is increasingly strategically as the country heads for an election. difcult to separate CSOs from political movements. There appears to be lot of suspicion and mistrust among members of the same political parties and

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Approaches to Peacebuilding to gain an in-depth appreciation of confict issues, Organisations have formed strategic partnerships while documentation and publication of incidents with all willing political parties and government of violence helps raise public and international structures and work together to implement awareness. Cases of violence are documented by activities lobbying government bodies. The Organ locally based focal persons, who also raise alerts on of National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration potential fashpoints. (ONHRI) and JOMIC have been called to address Organisations encourage communities to own recurring conficts especially in relation to retributive the process by registering as CBOs so as to replicate violence. the initiatives. Communities are also involved in Capacity building activities are also being programme design and planning through the use carried out to address the conficts that have of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) techniques been observed. These include awareness like appreciative inquiry and Regenerated raising activities in the community on human Freirean Literacy Economic Empowerment rights and peacebuilding through workshops through Community Technology (REFLECT). It and public meetings. Organisations carry out is the desire of NGOs to involve the community trainings in peacebuilding, confict resolution and in peacebuilding activities from the planning transformation. The trainings are usually conducted stage up through the evaluation of the project with the assistance of community members who are and to work with existing community structures. skilled in confict transformation and management. Organisations frst seek the commitment of local Peace Programming leadership which helps ensure that all participants The focus areas of organisations in Harare are from the community. Metropolitan are varied and include issues to do with While addressing conficts, some organisations women and youth; human rights and civic education; attempt to address the immediate needs of confict management and transformation; political communities. Activities carried out include psycho- leadership development and monitoring of the GPA; social support through group therapy sessions and transparency and accountability; trauma healing healing workshops, provision of free legal services and legal assistance to victims of organised torture. to victims of violence and human rights defenders Most of the organisations in the province use as well as engaging partners to fund community workshops, dialogue, distribution of IEC materials, projects that help address humanitarian needs of advocacy, lobby and sport in their work. Most of communities. the organisations meet with their benefciaries on a monthly basis whilst a few meet them on a weekly Some organisations confront confict by basis. Most organisations hope their work will bringing the conficting parties together to discuss bring about peace and tranquillity in the province. their issues. This is done through community Some of the outcomes that organisations expect dialogues and mediation sessions that create are: improved community and multi-stakeholder platforms for conficting parties to deal with their participation, good local governance, transparency diferences. During these sessions, constructive and accountability. In carrying out their work, confrontations are encouraged so as to ensure the organisations face three major gaps: lack of fnancial continuity of the process and to avoid worsening resources, inadequate collaboration among the confict. These activities are carried out at stakeholders and lack of knowledge and awareness the invitation of the community and community on issues to do with confict transformation. leadership is involved in the planning of the activities. Some organisations use research and documentation as a way of addressing conficts they observe in various communities. Research is used

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As a community radio initiative we involved various Our commemoration of World Habitat Day focused interested groups, such as people with disabilities, on the theme ‘End Forced Evictions’ and included to secure a police clearance for a road show that we Installation Theatre depicting the type of life that sponsored. People living with disabilities owned the people live in Hatclife Extension and Hopley show, reading out a list of their grievances such as Farm. As the set-up was very interactive with all unemployment, the need to end political violence aspects of life out in the open, the event and the and the need to license community radios which approach managed to catch the public’s attention. could give them a voice. They presented a petition Since then, one of our young spokespersons from to the city of Harare, ZESA and the Parliament of Hatclife Extension has met with the Zimbabwean Zimbabwe after the road show. This received a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Housing and lot of media coverage. We were proud to help the the African Union Council of Ministers of Housing to disadvantaged speak out as it is our core mandate stand up for the right to shelter. as a community based radio station. We have now refocused our strategies to meaningfully involve There are several challenges that organisations our target communities in all activities for greater encounter while engaging youth. Firstly, they are impact. a mobile population and it is difcult to engage them on a long term basis as they move according Youth and Confict Transformation to educational, professional, or social (e.g. marriage) The defnition of youth in Zimbabwean society is prospects. This greatly afects continuity and varied, however in Harare there is general consensus sustainability of youth projects. Secondly, societal that youth refers to anyone who is below the age attitude toward young people is not constructive. of 35 years whether married or not. Working with It is generally believed that age comes with wisdom youth is largely restricted to youth organisations and that young people cannot lead when the older whilst others only have youth issues mainstreamed generation is still there. Third, youth fear being into their programmes and others work with reprimanded by their political leaders if they engage everyone across the board. Organisations who work in peacebuilding activities. As they are mostly specifcally with youth usually involve young people unemployed, they heavily rely on the income they in the initial programme design, implementation and get from perpetrating violence. Lastly, government allow them to manage the programme themselves. failure to prioritise youth needs in the national They conduct various activities including self- healing and reconciliation process combined with help projects and peacebuilding programmes. weak national youth policies which marginalise Some organisations encounter youth as victims or youth, cause and reinforce confict. perpetrators of violence whilst others work with them as participants at rights awareness workshops. The role of youth in confict has been viewed as negative for many years. Powerful political actors have used them to perpetrate violence promising money, employment and other economic gains. However, youth have many new ideas on confict transformation that are yet to be explored. As youth are considered the major perpetrators of violence, they can provide efective solutions to confict if they are constructively engaged to champion peacebuilding initiatives.

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Operational Gaps and Recommendations

Level Gap/ Challenge Recommendation

1. 1. Organisation 1. 6ODPPSEJOBUFEQSPHSBNNJOH 1. Form synergies with organisation in the same feld of showing lack of cohesion work by implementers because 2. Donor forum lobbying for countries specifc support of competition resulting in that responds to the needs of the communities duplication of activities and 3. Explore other sources of funding like the corporate double dipping. sector 2. Donor themed programme 4. Finding ways to document experiences and sharing 3. Inadequate fnancial resources successes so as to learn best practices 4. Limited documenting of 5. Training in efective strategic planning needed by experiences and sharing of all. Come up with early warning systems and share success stories information on potential fash points 5. Organisations do not think 6. Establishing grassroots networks to act as conduits for strategically they are reactive programming in those communities. and not proactive. They do not red fag issues in time 6. Accessibility of some communities which are no go areas like Mbare and Epworth

1. 1. Community 1. Lack of information with regard 1. Coordinated information dissemination by NGOs who to national processes carry out civic education in the community as well as 2. Lack of skills in confict other institutions like the ZEC and JOMIC management and 2. Capacity building, customised skills training peacebuilding. Organisations carrying out this work in communities do not have comprehensive skills transfer or training programmes. This means that when the organisation leaves the area the work they had started is not continued.

1. 1. Resources 1. Inconsistency in terms of 1. Donors should invest more in long term funding funding. Some donors have 2 especially in the feld of peacebuilding year cycles whilst others have 5 2. A need to come together to defne peacebuilding and to year cycles this makes it difcult develop common values for us to adhere to to sustain a long term project as funding for long term processes is not available. Peacebuilding work is unlike humanitarian, it involves long term processes 2. Failure to stick to core values causes distrust especially when aligned to specifc party/political views.

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Provincial Priorities The highest priority area in Harare is healing, empowerment and reconnection to address the trauma that communities have endured in recent years. The second highest ranked priorities for the province is security in the sense of a) security mechanisms for all citizens so that they are protected from physical harm, b) security and safety awareness training so that they are able to assess risk and respond accordingly, especially CSO personnel, and c) access to legal representatives in the event of an arrest. The ffth priority was economic empowerment especially for youth and women.

37 Points of Contact for Peace Initiatives in Harare Province: Africa Community Publishing and Development Trust African Reform Institute Centre for Community Development in Zimbabwe Centre for Peace Initiatives in Africa Chitungwiza Community Peace Building Partnership of Zimbabwe Trust Civic Education Network Trust Community Peace-Building Partnership of Zimbabwe Helpline Zimbabwe Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee Joshua Foundation Zimbabwe Musasa National Association of Non-Governmental Organisations National Council of Disabled Persons of Zimbabwe National Movement of Catholic Students Pacesetters Youth Network 3FTFBSDIBOE"EWPDBDZ6OJU

38 39 40 41 MANICALAND PROVINCE Compiled by: Adriana Franco Chitanana, Vincent Tafrenyika, Chiedza Zororo

Provincial Background Manicaland Province is in the eastern part of In August 2008, we had a workshop in Nyanga on Zimbabwe. It borders Mozambique on its eastern national healing and reconciliation. The beginning border and the provinces of Mashonaland East to was tense because of hard-line divisions between the north, Masvingo to the south and south west political parties; additionally, some church and Midlands province to the west. Manicaland representatives were also clearly partisan which has an area of 36,459 sq km and a population of exacerbated the tension. Long deliberations broke 1,755,000. The capital of the province is the town through when they agreed that there was need of Mutare which was founded in 1897 and is the for people to reconcile due to the election violence third largest city in Zimbabwe. Mutare is divided earlier that year. Toward the end of the meeting, two into 7 administrative districts. The districts are run members of the main political parties stood up to by the rural district councils, which are composed of announce that they would no longer live as enemies, members elected from the wards in the district. The but move on with life since they are neighbours. seven districts are, Buhera, Chimanimani, Chipinge, There is poverty in the midst of plenty: 1 Makoni, Mutare, Mutasa and Nyanga. diamonds, plantations, tourist resorts as well as an ethanol plant exist in the province yet some Community Needs communities remain very poor. The greatest need During the 2008 political violence, Manicaland in the province is a policy framework that ensures was severely afected with some communities that the general population benefts from the local completely severed from the outside world. The resources. wounds of this violence are still fresh in some communities and they have not had opportunities Due to the economic downturn in 2007, many to share or talk about it. Because of this, Zimbabweans left the country in search of greener communities need disclosure and closure to move pastures. A teacher also went, but the pastures on. The integration of peace and development were not as green as he thought and he was absent is essential to build peaceful communities and from work without ofcial leave. He came back late for the communities to take ownership of peace 2007, went through disciplinary proceedings and initiatives. The knowledge that confict can be was reinstated. However, his employers negated a tool of development should be embraced by to process his salary, but he carried on without communities. Principles of peace include: peace remuneration for three years. Our legal intervention education, protection, tolerance, knowledge and helped resolve the confict and the teacher received respect for human rights (including movement and all his salaries, benefts and bonuses. He has since assembly), unity, community building and confict started a business and extended his family home. transformation. Players in the province believe that The existing livelihoods and structures in the culture is strong hence there is need to integrate communities should be strengthened, especially and understand indigenous knowledge of peace as with regard to agricultural projects. Employment well as contemporary approaches. for youth is necessary to decrease violence and help address the problems of drug and alcohol abuse. Economic empowerment, poverty alleviation and income generation is necessary and could be sourced from formal or informal employment, sports or the arts. The implementation of the empowerment policy should aim at youth on the ground and achieve results. Communities also need food security in order to provide protection from hunger. An essential requirement for this is a stable economy and government and the creation 1. Accessed on: http://www.zimtrade.co.zw/pdf/market%20briefs/ MANICALAND.pdf of synergies between communities in the province. 42 MANICALAND

Another need highlighted by Manicaland Province is service provision. Communities are A district chairperson raped eight married women concerned about the quality and reliability of during the 2008 presidential runof. He believed and service delivery especially water, power and boasted that he was above the law since he was refuse collection. Communities want quality and doing everything in the name and protection of his afordable health services, facilities and equipment. party and its president. Husbands of the raped wives Infrastructure development is needed regarding were chilled to the bone in fear of his party and its road networks, industries and communications. functionaries. One victim was courageous enough Adequate power supply is necessary as it afects the to report her case. Our legal department researched phone network and other major services. In general, and documented the indecencies with witnesses. public service needs more support so they can be The man was arrested and sued in his personal responsive to needs of communities. For example, capacity. He was tried at the Magistrate court, was teachers need higher remuneration to do their found guilty and sentenced to 52 years in prison. jobs instead of concentrating on private lessons for Today, people in the area know that perpetrators of supplemental income. There is a lack of community violence and crime can be reduced to size by the law. centres where youth can access services or engage Also other would-be violators of human rights have JOQPTJUJWFGPSNTPGSFDSFBUJPO6TFSGSJFOEMJOFTTPG taken heed of the rule of law, principles of justice service delivery for youth needs to improve as well. and respect for individuals. For example, the age diference between nurses At the economic level, conficts arise regarding or other providers and youth make it difcult to natural resources in the province. Conficts also discuss issues. develop over project ownership as community members fght over these as well as the allocation Confict Dynamics of resources and implements. At times there is stock Manicaland province has witnessed diferent theft and confict between farmers and buyers types of conficts that can be broadly grouped into as well as farmers and the Grain Marketing Board. political, social, economic and religious. The political Harvesting brings about confict as boundary conficts are witnessed from family and village up to issues crop up and lead to violence. The way the district and provincial levels. Partisan politics afect indigenisation is being implemented also causes a public service delivery, for instance the distribution lot of confict. of aid and resources raises conficts between Socially, there is a signifcant amount of councillors and traditional leaders who feel their gender violence in the province which should power is threatened if they are not involved in the be addressed. The violence is not only caused process. Chieftanship inheritance is also mentioned by men abusing women, but the inverse can as a source of confict as well as the violation of also be true. Young people are afected by the human rights by these leaders according to their generation gap as leaders in companies and moral and cultural values. structures consider youth a disadvantage and rarely give them a chance to gain the experience they need. Conficts also arise between villagers that are being relocated by authorities and resettlement creates power struggles between tribes.

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In Buhera district in 2010, we sought to engender Approaches to Peacebuilding the apostolic white garment churches to improve Whenever organisations work with communities, protection of women and girls. The family conficts the frst step is to consult, engage and encourage experienced in the community were mostly grounded local leadership to participate in the process. They on religious teachings, particularly the marrying of perform project baseline studies when beginning of girls from the age of ten and the general abuse of their work and evaluations to measure impact. women. Our organisation used dialogue as a primary Organisations operating in the province also method to deal with the conficts: identifying root strive to involve partner organisations to avoid causes and assisting the development of possible duplication of eforts. Organisations use awareness- solutions. We also empowered the community with raising campaigns to sensitise the community on alternative dispute resolution methods and legal the topics and disseminate important information. information particularly the domestic violence act Consultations are done using the ethnographic that speaks to the protection against abuse. With approach and local level participation is emphasised continued interaction the community opened up while participatory tools are also used during about the issue of forced early marriages. Initially, meetings and workshops. community members justifed their approach and In November 2008, we conducted two leadership quoted bible verses in support of their religious and confict transformation workshops in Dora. beliefs. However, through dialogue the impact of There had been serious violence and disruption of early marriage on the girl child in terms of health community peace in the area. This was the frst time issues, self esteem, access to education and their that perceived perpetrators and victims of violence contribution to the family, community and nation held dialogue: one side seeking forgiveness, the other was discussed. The community slowly realised granting forgiveness. We managed to facilitate that that there were no advantages for young girls as safe space and the local leadership then resolved to a result of early marriage. The community decided work together in an inclusive ward committee for to identify individuals within their community who the development of their community and equitable could be trained as peer educators, who would be distribution of resources. a resource to the community and assist in confict There are many methodologies that are resolution. One outcome of this decision was that employed to gain interest from communities and one girl was returned to her family by the Bishop to transmit messages: dramas, simulation and role who had married her. In addition, this community plays; teambuilding among heterogeneous groups; became the eyes of the police regarding violations dialogue; workshops; traditional approaches like of women’s rights. shuttle diplomacy; mediation; research; problem- There are a lot of churches in the province solving; training; empowerment; IEC material and the splitting and mushrooming has also distribution; sports; and capacity building or caused confict related to resources and leadership advice on: advocacy and lobbying, petition-writing, positions. There are a lot of white garment churches demanding accountability, referrals, and litigation. in the province and they are conficting with the Whatever methods are chosen they should send out government on vaccinations and wether to send a clear message that what we want is peace. For this children to hospitals and school. The structural reason, organisations must carefully choose their confict between religion, law and culture regarding methods as some do not clearly represent peaceful diferent opinions and standards on particular topics approaches. also leads to confict. However, the preservation With youth as a target group, road shows and of culture in all aspects of life is important and galas are especially popular. Music is popular and misunderstanding of this can cause confict as well. helpful when artists take a stand on a particular Film could help address this if it includes promotion issue, for instance some Oliver Mutukudzi songs of indigenous ideas and culture instead of merely which encourage respect for women. Organisations copying the ‘Western’ style. are also using online platforms and social media to

44 MANICALAND access young people. Film and images are also very In 2008, while driving to Chimanimani South powerful when it comes to stirring emotions on a constituency, we were afected by the harsh particular topic. Examples of this can be taken from environment from the police who were manning other African communities to help Zimbabweans road blocks and interrogating everyone. As we understand efects of confict. entered the villages, we met youth calling us regime Practitioners often depend more on quantitative change agents. We had been asked to go back but research than qualitative, but strengthening the we insisted on proceeding. After two hours of being qualitative side will increase understanding of the held as hostages, they let us go and we managed achievement of programmes, especially when it to see victims [of political violence] in mountains, comes to peacebuilding. Organisations working some with deep cuts on the heads and others with towards confict transformation prefer to bring all diferent wounds all over their bodies. We took parties together. They invite leaders and candidates pictures, interviewed them and gave them food. from diferent persuasions to share platforms with each other. This is seen as the most efective way In Manicaland, work is mainly done through to build peace in the political arena. For example, technical and capacity building, community there was a JOMIC march in the province where participation, political education and workshops. people were wearing t-shirts which had the symbols The most frequent target group for the province of various political parties side by side and this is youth and traditional leaders while women and was seen very positively. Traditional methods are children below the age of 17 are also targeted. The also important as the extended family village and benefciaries are usually met with on a monthly methods of confict resolution are useful and could basis with some meeting daily and others weekly. also be applied at the macro level. Most importantly, The three most common outcomes expected in order to build peace, women, youth and children from their work are: communities living in peace must be involved and this should be implemented and tranquillity, improved community and multi- BU DPVOUSZ MFWFM BMPOH XJUI 6/4$ SFTPMVUJPO stakeholder participation and respect for human and other related international conventions. rights regardless of race, age or gender and empowered communities with capacity to deal Peace Programming with confict. The most frequently mentioned gaps Organisations in the province focus on several identifed in the confict transformation programmes areas of work including: sustainable agriculture are lack of knowledge and education including and resource management, community based confict transformation, leadership training in agro-processing and marketing, peacebuilding and confict management, lack of participation by all confict management, capacity building, human members concerned and lack of fnancial resources. rights defence, advocacy, democracy and good governance, food security, water and sanitation, Youth and Confict Transformation provision of free legal services, counselling, HIV/ Manicaland generally agrees that the group referred AIDS awareness and caring for orphans and to as youth are persons between the age of 18 and vulnerable children. 35, whether married or unmarried. Organisations include youth in their programming with particular emphasis on creating peace clubs, income generating projects, providing technical skills, capacity building, psychosocial support and sports. In Zimbabwean confict, the role of youth is often described as perpetrators of violence who are manipulated and used by politicians due to their lack of employment. Young people are also described as potential channels for peace and organisations emphasised that they need to reject political violence, receive education in peacebuilding and confict resolution as well as be 45 MAPPING PEACE INTIATIVES IN ZIMBABWE empowered to infuence decision making as they are the future of Zimbabwe. However, youth may fnd it difcult to participate in confict transformation processes because the majority of young people are not gainfully employed which leads to lack of fnancial independence and leaves them vulnerable to manipulation. Another challenge is that culturally, young people are not encouraged to express their views. There is therefore need for domestic policies to be improved to allow for the participation of youth in peacebuilding initiatives as well as enable youth to contribute to national decision making.

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Operational Gaps and Recommendations

Level Gap/ Challenge Recommendation

1. 1. Organisational 1. Funding (Programming & 1. Cost-sharing, social entrepreneurship; Institutional) approach donors as a group or consortium, 2. Follow up communication (results of joint applications; leaders and employees to funding) receive training in fnancial management and 3. Commitment of employees to the investments act (some are there for the money), 2. Training on report-writing, knowledge exchange, but it is also hard to work when emphasis not only on activities but also on salaries are not there points of success, categorically collect info 4. Expertise and training of staf during activities to have the careful details, 5. Founders syndrome in organisational strengthen M&E systems, responsible persons leadership, personalisation of (Results-Based Management and Outcome organisations, Board of Directors Mapping recruited based on support for 3. Continuous sharing of mission and vision Executive Director instead of of the organisation and full involvement of expertise all employees, support and more thorough 6. Registration of organisations- programme design expense, takes time, and at times no 4. Training to address lack of knowledge in M&E need for it fnancial budgeting and reporting, knowledge 7. Dependency syndrome- lack exchange, examples of action and morals from of volunteerism, expectations CSOs who expect the same from leadership in of material gains (also part of the communities implementers gap) 5. Institutional capacity; institutional memory, 8. 6SCBOCBTFEPSHBOJTBUJPOTDBOOPU de-personalising things; apply corporate easily understand rural feld work governance standards foundational documents; participants elaboration of succession plans and grooming of 9. Organisations being funded for future leaders youth activities are not involving 6. Focus on registration frst before programming youth implementation 7. Volunteerism requires some minimal support (lunch, transport etc.) or if the person is well resources; otherwise volunteerism is not genuine because of the need (nor realistic), volunteerism should not equate abuse 8. Be sensitive to target groups so you can understand them and not create fear, baseline study should guide operation, organisational ethics are important regarding approaches and procedures, mentorship and orientation (including manual) on feld operations 9. Organisation should focus on an area where they have expertise not what is available, motivation is important, youth participation in projects and adults available for advice, this has to be genuine and groups should be open to it

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1. 1. Community 1. Lack of information 1. Awareness-raising 2. Fear of victimisation/ participation 2. Fostering sense of ownership 3. Lack of coordinated efort 3. Request from community members (lobbying 4. Partisan leadership leaders) 4. Clear explanation of benefts, defnition of peace as non-violence should be clear when entering communities; diference between responsibility and authority; being very careful about presenting a neutral face of the project, even careful about gestures because it can lead to difculties; maintain and stick to who you are for consistency; Do No Harm – Anderson: do not exacerbate already existing confict 1. 1. Provincial / National 1. Political interference and political 1. Demonstration against the authorities intolerance. 2. Need for engagement between local authorities 2. Lack of coordination within local and other stakeholders authority and other stakeholders 3. Advocacy, transparency, disclosure of resource 3. Poverty amidst plenty (diamonds, value and extraction, disclosure of revenue gold) (resources) and payment of taxes, training of people to ask questions and advocate for themselves 1. Resources 1. Donors stifing creativity by 1. More government support of local NGOs to stringent requirements: very little avoid trap of foreign donor manipulation/ variety in activities funded pushing of agendas. E.g. in Kenya, 95% of 2. Donor fatigue and manipulation budget comes from GNP and 5% from foreign 3. Donors seem to be drifting more partners. Let’s get Zimbabwe to this level, we towards implementation. need to tighten the screws on revenue system; 4. Forums required where donors resource revenue from minerals, border come to recognise under-funded crossing/trade organisations

Provincial Priorities Manicaland placed youth empowerment and youth participation in peacebuilding as their top priorities for the province. Also prioritised is the integration of traditional methods of confict resolution and contemporary approaches. Youth integration in peace initiatives is also crucial. Incorporating peace and confict resolution in school education curriculum is essential. Poverty reduction and economic empowerment of all was also a top priority for the province.

49 Points of Contact for Peace Initiatives in Manicaland Province: Caritas Mutare $IJLVLXB&DPMPHJDBM-BOE6TF$PNNVOJUZ5SVTU Churches in Manicaland City of Mutare Housing and Community Services Educators Association for Human Rights Legal Resources Foundation Living Hope Trust Mutare Ministers Fraternal Partnership for Development Initiative Trust Peace-Building and Capacity Development Foundation 4UVEFOU3FQSFTFOUBUJWF$PVODJM"GSJDB6OJWFSTJUZ Tsuro Trust Youth Alive Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Human Rights Association Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights Zimbabwe Peace and Counselling Centre

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Provincial Background Since we began our work with young women The province of Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe, in 2009, there has been a notable increase in has an area of 28,347 sq km and a population the number of young women attending public of 1,139,940. Bindura is the provincial capital. meetings and advocating for recognition of their Mashonaland Central is mainly a rural province in rights. Thirty women are now skilled in tailoring which a number of commercial farms are found and our institute has distributed sewing machines especially in the Mazowe area. There are 8 districts, to get them started. The young women have also namely: Mount Darwin, Guruve, Muzarabani, organised discussions on social issues afecting Rushinga, Shamva, Bindura, Mazowe and Mbire. them and their communities. It is not only the young Two major languages, Shona and Korekore, are women who have benefted from the programme, mainly spoken in Mashonaland province. Farming their communities also beneft from the products and mining are the major economic activities.1 developed by the young women. Mashonaland Central is clearly distinguished from some other provinces in that since 2000, it has been Employment and economic empowerment are a political hotbed. It is also unique for great cotton needed, especially for youth. This can be attained and citrus farming activities. There are huge deposits through skills training and access to microfnance. of granite and it was with granite from this province People generally need education and training this that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe was constructed. relates to capacity building in various areas that include project proposal development and fnancial Community Needs management. Legal education on domestic Peacebuilding organisations identify community violence issues is also needed. Communities have needs when they conduct evaluation exercises inaccurate perceptions about Non-Governmental of their projects/programmes, through baseline Organisations (NGOs) and awareness should be studies and consultations. Community meetings raised to clear these misperceptions. Leadership are also platforms for gathering information training for public leaders is also necessary which around community needs. Projects should not would support good governance in the areas of be imposed on communities. There is need for service delivery and allocation of inputs, land and community involvement, community participation stands. Corruption is rampant and there is therefore and community driven projects for sustainable need to enforce relevant laws that deal with this development to take place. Only facilities that are social ill. relevant to communities should be established. Community members need to own processes In Mashonaland Central, there is a culture of such as national healing. There is need to preserve violence that needs to be addressed as people want natural resources and improve service delivery and peace that results in a conducive living environment. infrastructure like clinics, schools and roads. In Social, human and food security are also called for. addition, Mashonaland Central communities have a It is believed that a lack of entertainment leads to need to preserve their cultural identity. anti-social behaviours. In addition to sustainable sources of income, the communities require The easy fow of information is limited to recreational facilities in order to curb community urban areas. Mashonaland Central communities social problems. need information on national issues including the constitution, national healing, women and human Confict Dynamics rights issues, and information on services such as the Bureaucracy is a source of confict in Mashonaland acquisition of birth certifcates. Information is often Central, especially so when it comes to the limited to urban areas. The province needs more information on peacebuilding, income generating operation of peace initiatives. The province points projects, the domestic violence act, and the to the confict context in the country as the main constitution. obstacle. It is not easy to acquire clearances to carry out organisational activities. Bureaucracy 1. Accessed on: http://www.zimtrade.co.zw/pdf/market%20briefs/ MASHONALAND%20CENTRAL.pdf afects NGO-Government relations. Security issues 54 MASHONALAND CENTRAL afect research in terms of gatekeepers. Chiefs, refuse to take part in the project and work against for instance, are not willing to share information its establishment and development in various ways. because they fear being victimised. Intolerance In some cases, councillors themselves add to the and fear make it difcult for communities to actively problem by inviting and involving only or mostly participate in the activities run by peacebuilding ward members who belong to their political party. organisations. There is a confict between traditional and Political conficts arise as a result of elected leaders that needs to be solved. This misconceptions by the communities. Diferences in confict, which stems from lack of clarity on roles political ideologies cause conficts. Both inter- and and responsibilities, sees the two parties clashing intra-political party conficts result in fghts over regularly and is common across most, if not all community projects as people perceive that the districts in Zimbabwe. Communities are afected by project should beneft ‘them’ and not ‘the others’. this as leadership will be divided when it comes to The fght over feld and homestead boundaries, participation in community development meetings. caused or strengthened by unclear boundaries, also For example, a councillor may invite village heads results in violent conficts. and community members because he/she feels or he/she is responsible for development in the The province was a no-go area for NGOs community. However, a headman can instruct his characterised by politically motivated violence. Our village heads not to attend the meeting because organisation began consultation meetings with key he feels he is in charge of community development stakeholders such as local authorities, community and should therefore be the one to call for such a leaders and political parties. We carried out a needs meeting. In most cases, this is evident when the assessment to see how to intervene and eventually councillor is of a diferent political party than the started to implement peacebuilding meetings as headman. When they are both from the same a methodology to bring communities together. political party, it is not a problem for village heads Workshops on peacebuilding and human rights to attend meetings. were conducted and these raised awareness on human rights violations. Peace committees were There are conficts that stem from diferences established to spearhead peace meetings and between or clashes of culture and Christianity are comprised of stakeholders such as all political practices. These conficts make the implementation parties, kraal heads, churches, youth, women and of peace initiatives and the observance of human other infuential persons in the community. The rights difcult. Members of a certain church or the idea was well accepted by the local authorities and church itself may decide to work on Fridays and its inclusiveness and non-partisan approach gave rest on Saturdays since their religion stipulates that it legitimacy. Dialogue was introduced as a way Saturday is a resting day. These church members of resolving matters and mediation skills was part come into confict with other people in the of the training ofered to the peace committees. community, the Chief in particular, as he orders This helped to break the barrier between political that no-one should work on Friday because it is a parties whose representatives then started meeting traditional day of rest (Chisi). at community peace initiatives which improved In Mashonaland Central, there are gender-based interaction and developed tolerance. conficts related to unequal access to resources and Community development projects are headed decision-making, particularly regarding land. Some by councillors and they have political afliations churches allow men to marry as many as 20 women clearly known to community members. If an and in most cases, the women are below 18 years organisation consults with a councillor afliated of age. It is impossible and at times dangerous to a particular political party in order to establish for an organisation working on HIV/AIDS to raise a community project meant to beneft everyone, awareness within these churches emphasising that people will begin to afliate the organisation and marrying young women/girls is illegal and increases the project with that political party. As a result, they exposure to HIV/AIDS through Multiple Concurrent 55 MAPPING PEACE INTIATIVES IN ZIMBABWE

Partnerships (MCP). Accusations of witchcraft also It was very difcult to establish the Peace and tear families apart and afect family-community Governance Department at Bindura University relations. A person can be ostracised once labelled as the institution is renowned for its excellence in a witch. In some few cases, people are murdered by the Hard Sciences. After some spirited buying in other family members. and lobbying with the authorities we started with a University-wide course in Citizenship Education Approaches to Peacebuilding and Confict Transformation and eventually set up Quite a number of methods are employed by the department. The department has a thrust in peacebuilding organisations in Mashonaland Research, Documentation and Publication as well Central as they manage conficts. Communities as community involvement. We have increased are involved in most, if not all of these approaches. visibility and collaborations with both civil society Peacebuilding organisations appreciate some of the and government on issues of peace and governance methods because they are participatory in nature, which has increased our research outputs. We tapping into the real life experiences of communities. are also developing home-grown frameworks for Such methods include theatre (performing arts), peacebuilding. engaging communities in sporting activities during which they build their relationships, Focus Group Other methods used in Mashonaland Central Discussions and initiation of projects that bring are dissemination of information; facilitation people together. Community gardens, for example, of peacebuilding workshops; public meetings encourage sustainability through involvement of and public lectures on peace, leadership and benefciaries and give project benefciaries a sense governance; producing position papers in order to of ownership regarding the community projects or lobby for the implementation of positive changes activities. in response to confict situations; research and In most instances, organisations involve publication; facilitating dialogue, mediation and communities while instituting peacebuilding negotiation; formation of peace committees; and interventions. Through certain interventions, working in collaboration with other organisations. communities themselves decide on the confict issues to be discussed so that the exchange is specifc Peace Programming and responsive to community needs and interests. The main focus or areas of work in the province Communities participate actively and informatively includes information dissemination and advocacy as a result. Some organisations however, suggest on gender and human rights issues, sharing themes and facilitate processes that allow theoretical foundations in peacebuilding communities to discuss the particular themes. networks, research, civic education on human rights and citizen participation in democracy and The province encourages ownership of projects development. The organisations operate through by communities. Likewise, organisations work very technical capacity building of communities, closely with communities. For example, local leaders information dissemination, community workshops are consulted before activities are implemented. and meetings, advocacy and lobbying. As their This allows the leaders to provide input and target groups, organisations generally work with suggest how activities can be best implemented. In all community members: traditional leaders, addition, network builders from within a community leaders of political parties, women, men, youth, are identifed to mobilise participants for confict the disabled, people living with HIV/AIDS, children management and peacebuilding activities. Sub- and government departments/ institutions. Most committees are set up to spread peace projects in peacebuilding organisations interact with their communities. As an example, trained community project benefciaries on a monthly and quarterly members train others in their community. basis, while others meet their target groups weekly or as necessary.

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As a result of their work, organisations expect their roles in confict transformation. Nevertheless, to ultimately see communities living in peace and the government political philosophy has a major tranquillity. Most organisations would like for infuence on these things. there to be an improvement on community and multi-stakeholder participation in peacebuilding processes. Some other project outcomes are realisation of a sustainable livelihood, respect for human rights regardless of race, age and gender, and empowered communities with capacity to deal with their own conficts. The most frequent programmatic gap mentioned is lack of fnancial resources for organisations. As a result, they are not able to implement their activities with as much scope as they would like.

Youth and Confict Transformation Youth were generally defned as those people, men and women, falling in the age range of 15 to 35 years. All organisations agreed that they involve youth while carrying out their work. They are involved through education on initiating and runing income generating projects, participating in research activities and being part of peace committees. Youth participation is said to be based on the will of the authorities. Good leadership, contributes to positive youth participation. Young people should be involved in the development, implementation and evaluation of projects that include them as a target group. They should also participate in economic and community development issues. Due to their level of energy combined with unemployment, their role in Zimbabwean confict was largely seen as that of perpetrating political violence because they are easily manipulated. However, youth can play an important role in peacebuilding by changing their attitudes, refusing to be used by politicians, championing information dissemination and advocating and lobbying for peace initiatives. It is difcult for youth to participate in confict transformation processes because they are easily manipulated by politicians; they are not understood by the elderly, hence their ideas are not accepted; and they are not involved in governance and decision making activities. There is need to involve youth in policy formulation as domestic policy has infuence on their lives and

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Operational Gaps and Recommendations

Level Gap/ Challenge Recommendation

1. 1. Organisation 1. Lack of coordination by NGOs (monopolising 1. Organise all stakeholders for a meeting i.e. operations), lack of networking in areas of NGOs in areas of operation operation 2. Encourage self funded sustainable projects 2. Insufcient resources, especially fnancial 3. Lack of expertise e.g. relationship management; lack of adequate technical knowledge 4. Interference in programming and implementation of programs by political parties 5. Confict within our own institutions leading to factionalism e.g. in youth organisations – issues to do with founder member syndrome 6. 6OBWBJMBCJMJUZPG.P6TGPSMFHBMPQFSBUJPO 7. Staf mobility/turnover due to failure to access institutional funding 8. Corruption and nepotism 9. Lack of strategic planning. In instances where plans exist, there are gaps in implementation

1. 1. Community 1. Lack of community ownership or 1. Community involvement at all levels i.e. responsibility on donor-supported projects planning, implementation, monitoring and 2. Misconceptions by communities of civil evaluation society organisations – labelling as regime 2. Greater involvement of political parties change agents in the programmes to address political 3. Lack of political tolerance antagonism against CSOs 4. Lack of knowledge of project management 5. Failure by trained community members to engage and disseminate information or knowledge to other community members 6. Interference in organisational activities by some community members so as to gain personal and political mileage

1. 1. Provincal 1. Bureaucracy informed by political interests 1. Establish stronger relationships with 2. Some organisations face competition from top leadership; need to have clear bigger organisations that ofer project understanding of how structures operate participants higher allowances/incentives 2. There is need to standardise allowances 3. The process of acquiring provincial clearance given to project participants to carry out activities is frustrating and time consuming

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1. 1. 1. Legislation – NGO registration process is 1. Lobby governments to have fexible National cumbersome registration processes or procedures; decentralisation of registration processes to the provinces

2. Resources 1.3. High expectations (donors want immediate results) 2.4. Some donors delay disbursement of funds 3.5. Donors generally fund temporary interventions only and not permanent ones 4.6. Donor-driven projects: Other donor agendas result in implementing partners diverting from their main focus of work

Provincial Priorities The main priority for peace in Mashonaland Central is youth awareness on peacebuilding knowledge. With knowledge on peacebuilding, youth have the potential to make positive changes within their community. Political stability was raised as the second highest priority which if it prevailed would contribute positively towards provincial development. Ranked number three was the fght against corruption with number four being the need to engender development. Political tolerance was ranked number fve and like political stability, communities believe that tolerance of diferences in political ideologies will minimise conficts and assist the development of the province.

59 Points of Contact for Peace Initiatives in Mashonaland Central Province: Civic Education Network Trust Department Of Peace and Governance Institute for Young Women Development Zimbabwe Civic Education Trust Zimbabwe Human Rights Association

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Provincial Background After the 2008 political violence, there was hatred Mashonaland East province covers an area of in our community and people were living in fear. 32,230 sq km with a population of 1,337,059. As a youth organisation we wanted to bring young The province has 9 districts: Marondera, Mutoko, people together as they were both victims and .VE[J 6[VNCB.BSBNCB1GVOHXF 8FE[B perpetrators of political violence. These young Chikomba, Goromonzi, Seke and Murehwa. people were fuelling violence hence there was Marondera is the provincial capital. The province a need to come up with a project to make these is largely composed of rural communities.1 young people work together. We decided to think of a model whereby at the end of the project they Community Needs would realise that team work is important in our Peacebuilding organisations in Mashonaland East lives. We used music and had sessions to discuss identify community needs as they carry out their certain issues that took place in that period and organisational activities. Such activities include highlighted the disadvantages of violence. We conducting surveys, interviews, sourcing information then used young established artists to spice up the from government departments, observations, project and it did very well on national radio and workshops, meetings and Focus Group Discussions. television. The participants say: ‘Wow, we did it!’ Communities do not want projects to be imposed on them. The communities need to be involved in Youth in the province particularly need the design and implementation of projects meant employment, as well economic empowerment. for them. This ensures developmental sustainability. Access to microfnance and entrepreneurship can People generally need education and training. address these needs. Recreational facilities are also This relates to capacity building in various areas that needed so that youths can desist from engaging in include project proposal development and fnancial antisocial behaviour. management. It also relates to legal education on domestic violence issues. Communities generally Confict Dynamics have wrong perceptions about Non-Governmental Bureaucracy is a source of confict in Mashonaland Organisations (NGOs) which need to be cleared up. East, especially so when it comes to the operation of peace initiatives. The province points to Mashonaland East communities realise that the confict context in the country as the main information is limited to urban areas. This includes obstacle. It is not easy to acquire clearances to information on national issues – peacebuilding, carry out organisational activities. Bureaucracy women and human rights issues, income generating afects NGO-Government relations. Political projects, national healing, the domestic violence act, conficts arise as a result of misconceptions by the and the constitution. There is need to enforce laws communities. Diferences in political ideologies that deal with corruption as corruption is a problem cause conficts. Both inter- and intra-political party in the province. Good governance is needed, conficts result in fghts over community projects especially in areas of service delivery, allocation of as people perceive that the project should beneft stands, land and agricultural inputs. ‘them’ and not ‘the others’. The fght over feld and Peace is a need since there is a culture of homestead boundaries, caused or strengthened by violence in the province. Processes such as national unclear boundaries, also results in violent conficts. healing should be owned by communities. In October 2008, we wanted to hold a youth There is need to conserve natural resources and workshop on business management skills. Two improve services ofered by clinics and schools. weeks before the workshop we got wind of political In addition, Mashonaland East communities interference: politicians thought the workshop have a need to preserve their cultural identity. would mobilise the youth to support another party. We visited the two political parties who were fghting over our workshop and we resolved the 1. Accessed on: http://www.zimtrade.co.zw/pdf/market%20briefs/ MashonalandEast.pdf issue. The workshop was successful. 64 MASHONALAND EAST

Community development projects are headed Saturday is a resting day. These church members by councillors and they have political afliations come into confict with other people in the clearly known to community members. If an community, the Chief in particular, as he orders organisation consults with a councillor afliated that no-one should work on Friday because it is a to a particular political party in order to establish traditional day of rest (Chisi). a community project meant to beneft everyone, In Mashonaland East, there are gender-based people will begin to afliate the organisation and conficts related to unequal access to resources and the project with that political party. As a result, they decision-making, particularly regarding land. Some refuse to take part in the project and work against churches allow men to marry as many as 20 women its establishment and development in various ways. and in most cases, the women are below 18 years In some cases, councillors themselves add to the of age. It is impossible and at times dangerous problem by inviting and involving only or mostly for an organisation working on HIV/AIDS to raise ward members who belong to their political party. awareness within these churches emphasising that There is a confict between traditional and elected marrying young women/girls is illegal and increases leaders that needs to be solved. This confict, which exposure to HIV/AIDS through Multiple Concurrent stems from lack of clarity on roles and responsibilities, Partnerships (MCP). Accusations of witchcraft also sees the two parties clashing regularly and is tear families apart and afect family-community common across most, if not all districts in Zimbabwe. relations. A person can be ostracised once labelled Communities are afected by this as leadership a witch. In a few cases, people are be murdered by will be divided when it comes to participation in other family members. community development meetings. For example, a councillor may invite village heads and community The 2008 elections resulted in violence and members because he/she feels or he/she is extensively strained relations between MDC and responsible for development in the community. ZANU PF. Through our peacebuilding project, we managed to bring together representatives of However, a headman can instruct his village heads both parties, the police, the DA and traditional not to attend the meeting because he feels he is leaders. We worked together with them in problem in charge of community development and should identifcation, planning and setting up of a therefore be the one to call for such a meeting. In planning and monitoring committee. As a result, most cases, this is evident when the councillor is of relations have improved and there is now harmony, a diferent political party than the headman. When tolerance and respect for each other. they are both from the same political party, it is not Approaches to Peacebuilding a problem for village heads to attend meetings. Organisations in Mashonaland East use the Our area of operation is politically contested so following methods in carrying out their work, as we devised a strategy to use traditional leaders they seek to resolve community conficts: Focus and local authorities to arrange and organise Group Discussions, information dissemination, meetings and workshops. Ours role is facilitation of sporting activities, theatre, conversation cafes, discussions. In this way, we have been able to hold galas, facilitation of peacebuilding workshops and meetings and workshops that have both ZANU PF discussions on social networking platforms such as Facebook. Communities are involved in initiatives in and MDC members in attendance and tolerance various ways that include deciding on peacebuilding has increased because of this. topics for discussion, mobilising participants for There are conficts that stem from diferences peacebuilding activities and setting up committees between or clashes of culture and Christianity that spread peacebuilding knowledge to others. practices. These conficts make the implementation Local leaders in the communities are often of peace initiatives and the observance of human consulted when organisations are planning and implementing their work. rights difcult. Members of a certain church or the church itself may decide to work on Fridays and rest on Saturdays since their religion stipulates that

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Our organisation conducted desk research and an Youth and Confict Transformation out of ofce survey through which we discovered Youth are people who are in the age range of 16 that many youth are starved of essential information to 35 according to organisations in the province. e.g. on indigenisation and empowerment, Organisations involve young people in their advocacy and peacebuilding. To address this, we projects through workshops and meetings where conduct workshops to train youth and disseminate youth issues are discussed. Some organisations information to them. We have also opened a equip youth with skills that allow them deal with Facebook page that has been growing extensively. conficts and social issues by themselves. The We use it as a social network to post issues and the participation of youth is understood as involving responses and opinions guide our next steps. We them in all areas of youth development from the partner with various government ministries to get local to national level and in sectors like economic information and disseminate it to young people empowerment and indigenisation. In addition, in the province. They are now freely coming to our youth participation entails young people being ofces to get information and information fows in given space and freedom to participate in decision both directions. making processes without being intimidated. Essentially, youth should be efectively engaged Peace Programming in all spheres of life and consulted on issues and Several organisations operating in the province decisions that afect them. identify peacebuilding as a major focus area as they conduct trainings and advocacy on the issue. Other Generally, young people are manipulated focus areas for Mashonaland East organisations are into perpetrating political violence by those who skills training, entrepreneurship development, HIV/ have fnancial and political muscle. The violence AIDS, capacitating youth to actively participate usually takes place during election periods. in governance and development, and women’s Sadly, youth also become victims of violence. empowerment. Most of the work is done through The province emphasises that youth can play a workshops, community meetings, technical capacity positive role in confict transformation. They can building and facilitation of dialogues. Youth are the utilise their intellectual skills and energy towards most commonly targeted project and programme peacebuilding in communities and refuse to be benefciaries. Other benefciaries include traditional conduits of political violence. When young people leaders, government departments and institutions, become enlightened about confict transformation, general community members, local authorities, they can become ambassadors of peace and men, women, political party leadership, small peace can eventually prevail in the country. to medium enterprises and business persons. Our area of operation is largely known to have Organisations meet with benefciaries usually on a politically linked violence. This violence is carried monthly basis. Some meet their benefciaries on a out by youth who are drawn from the community weekly basis. by some political leaders for their personal gains. The work of peacebuilding organisations This situation necessitated the birth of our youth is limited in diferent ways: by lack of fnancial association in response to the 2008 status quo. At resources, political interference, difculties in frst, we faced stif resentment from local community registering organisations and lack of participation members as we were suspected to be a politically by some stakeholders. Organisations in afliated group. However, through widespread Mashonaland East expect the following outcomes awareness campaigns the society has since opened from their work: communities living in peace and up and operations are fowing smoothly with the tranquillity, sustainable livelihood and community community’s support. development, empowered communities with capacity to manage their own conficts, improved community and multi-stakeholder participation, and, respect for human rights regardless of race, gender and age. 66 MASHONALAND EAST

There is a growing number of NGOs that are into peacebuilding and the activities of these organisations are led and or implemented by youth. However, several reasons make it difcult for youth to participate in confict transformation. Some communities feel youth cannot efectively address old people. Young women are seen as inferior to their male counterparts. Financial constraints hinder youth participation in confict transformation as the lack of bus fares makes it difcult for them to implement activities. Some community members restrict the role of confict transformation to the elders. In addition, local leadership may not allow the youth to participate in confict transformation as they believe their age makes them unable to give advice. Young people in the province call for government policy to include youth participation in peacebuilding. Domestic policy can have infuence because it will design a regulatory framework and structures that empower youth to participate in confict transformation. Some policies hinder youth initiatives as there are people who feel threatened by such initiatives. The community wants youth to be represented by themselves: “Imagine someone at the age of 65 representing youth. This person may have views and perceptions diferent from youth.”

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Operational Gaps and Recommendations

Level Gap/ Challenge Recommendation 1. 1. Organisation 1. Lack of coordination by NGOs 1. Organise all stakeholders for a meeting i.e. NGOs in areas (monopolising operations) of operation 2. Insufcient resources, especially 2. Encourage self-funded sustainable projects fnancial 3. Have clearly spelt constitutions that are regularly reviewed; 3. Confict within our own there is need for transparency and accountability institutions leading to factionalism e.g. in youth organisations – issues to do with founder member syndrome 4. Lack of networking in areas of operation 5. Lack of expertise e.g. relationship management; lack of adequate technical knowhow 1. 1. Community 1. Lack of community ownership 1. Community involvement at all levels i.e. planning, or responsibility on donor- implementation, monitoring and evaluation supported projects 2. Greater involvement of political parties in the programmes 2. Misconceptions by communities to address the political antagonism against CSOs on civil society organisations – labelling as regime change agents 3. Lack of political tolerance 4. Lack of knowledge on project management 5. Failure by trained community members to engage and disseminate to other community members 6. Interference in organisational activities by some community members so as to gain personal and political mileage 7. Interference in programming or implementation of programmes by political parties 8. 6OBWBJMBCJMJUZPG.P6TGPSMFHBM operation 9. Staf mobility and turnover due to failure to access institutional funding 10. Corruption and nepotism 11. Lack of strategic planning. In instances where plans exist, there are gaps in implementation

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1. 1. Provincal 1. The process of acquiring 1. Need to follow protocol provincial clearance to carry out activities is frustrating and time consuming. In some instances, there are problems associated with youth organisations – they are reluctant to follow protocol 2. Bureaucracy informed by political interests 3. Some organisations face competition from bigger organisations that ofer project participants higher allowances/ incentives 1. 1. National 1. Legislation – NGO registration 1. Lobby governments to have fexible registration process is cumbersome processes or procedures 2. Decentralisation of registration processes to the provinces 1. Resources 1. High expectations (donors want immediate results) 2. Some donors delay disbursement of funds 3. Donors fund temporary interventions only and not permanent ones 4. Donor-driven projects. Donor agendas result in implementing partners diverting from their main focus of work

Provincial Priorities Mashonaland East felt that employment creation was the highest priority for peace in the province. Political tolerance was ranked as the second highest priority in order to have peaceful communities. If there is political tolerance, peace can prevail and development can take place unhindered. The third priority is youth empowerment as it will ensure that youth become responsible for their own development and the development of their communities. The establishment of community courts was ranked as the fourth priority for peace in Mashonaland East. Indigenisation is also a priority for the province.

69 Points of Contact for Peace Initiatives in Mashonaland East Province: Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace Centre for Youth Empowerment Marvel Acts Youth Organisation of Zimbabwe Mudzi Youth Association Murewa Young Entrepreneurs Association Nomadic Tribe Nyahunure Community Trust Silveira House Wedza Youth Entrepreneurs Association Youth Development and Aids Trust Youth Initiatives for Community Development

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Provincial Background qualifed personnel. Mashonaland West also needs Mashonaland West province is located in the North- better water and sanitation services including an West part of Zimbabwe, it is home to 1,449,938 improved sewer reticulation system for its urban people and covers a total surface area of 57,441 centres like Norton, Chegutu, Kadoma, Chinhoyi, sq km. It is situated in agricultural region 2. The Karoi and Kariba. province is divided into six administrative districts Communities in Mashonaland West also need namely Chegutu, Hurungwe, Kadoma, Kariba, to participate actively in the governance of their Makonde, Zvimba and the provincial capital is province. They seek to be informed about public Chinhoyi. Shona and English are the main languages issues, to monitor the conduct of their leaders and spoken in the province. 1 Farming, mining and representatives and to express their own opinions fshing are the predominant economic activities in on issues that afect them. Communities hope to be the area. The province also hosts tourist attractions consulted before policies are formulated. It was also such as Chinhoyi Caves, Lake Kariba, Mana Pools noted that the community needs greater access to and provides a gateway to neighbouring Zambia information from diferent sources (both print and through the Chirundu border post. electronic). Community Needs Mashonaland West, like any other province Communities in Mashonaland West province are in in the country, has experienced various episodes need of sustainable sources of income. The province of violent confict in recent years. It was noted by needs to strengthen its farming activities as well that there is need for a healing and reconciliation as expand markets for its farming produce. There process in the province as well confict resolution is also need to provide both formal and informal activities that will address the conficts that are employment for the urban population. happening at both domestic and community level. The province has rich mineral deposits like gold, The community also needs tolerance of diferent platinum and chrome as well as lucrative fshery cultural, political and religious views. reserves at Lake Kariba and Mazvikadei Dam in The province needs to be equipped with Banket. Various tourist attractions in Mashonaland the necessary skills and knowledge in terms West attract signifcant revenue for the country. of civic education. Communities also need Communities feel the province is not beneftting economic and social empowerment, particularly from its resources and there is need to devise a for women and young people. There is need for remittance plan that would see revenue made from gender mainstreaming in all project as the needs these resources assisting the development of their and aspirations of women and men are varied. communities. Although all provinces contribute Meaningful engagement of young people in to the revenue of Zimbabwe, much of the national governance, economic recovery programmes and development programmes are mainly beneftting development at local, regional and national level is Harare. Communities are concerned about the essential. disproportionate allocation of resources; attention is on the capital and yet, ‘Harare is not Zimbabwe, and Confict Dynamics Zimbabwe is not Harare’. Residents from small towns Economic conficts in the province centre on access are also dissatisfed with developmental projects to and management of land and natural resources. which only beneft the provincial capital, Chinhoyi. With agriculture as the major economic activity in The community also needs a holistic approach the area, conficts over land boundaries have been to development. Development activities should observed in both rural and resettlement areas. cover all aspects of life: infrastructural developments Conficts arise with regard to management of including construction of schools, health facilities, resources in the area, especially land and mining roads, dip tanks and provision of adequate and resources. Mashonaland West lies in the Great Dyke which has abundant mineral wealth and prime soils 1. Accessed on: http://www.zimtrade.co.zw/pdf/market%20briefs/ suitable for various agricultural activities. At some MashonalandWest.pdf 74 MASHONALAND WEST farms designated by the Ministry of Agriculture the workplace and in the community. Conficts for resettlement, the Ministry of Mines has also arise over poor service delivery by town councils allocated mining claims on the very same piece and the power utility ZESA. Conficts between NGOs of land. As mining claims take precedence over and the Ministry of Education also occur regarding agriculture, naturally, conficts arise between the distribution and use of condoms in schools. two parties allocated the same piece of land. Witchcraft accusations have also been observed There have also been conficts over the in the community. These lead to conficts between management of Community Share Trusts that have the person accused and the whole community and been established by mining companies. These have often they are shunned by community members. been observed in Zvimba, Chegutu and Mhondoro, Although it is difcult if not impossible to gather where there are fears that these trusts will be used convincing evidence of witchcraft, it still remains a by political leaders to mobilise support for their deep seated belief in Shona culture. parties. There is growing concern of whether the Diferent political parties witness intra-party Trusts will indeed beneft the local communities conficts as they seek to revise their provincial or a few powerful individuals. The major issue is structures and during primary elections. Political that some top ofcials have allocated themselves parties usually have internal rivalries that play out positions within the trust that will enable them to get and have at times degenerated into violent attacks. big chunks instead of having chiefs heading these It is usually ordinary party supporters who sufer ventures. This is worsened by lack of information as as a result of these conficts. Parties are often in to the laws governing Community Share Ownership confict with each other due to diferent political Trusts. ideologies and lack of tolerance of each other’s view 2 Chieftainship wrangles have often caused point3. Political conficts are prominent in Chinhoyi, confict and have divided communities. The complex Makonde, Munyati, Kariba and Hurungwe. chieftaincy inheritance in Shona culture has led There are also conficts between government 1 to several succession disputes in the province.2 and civil society organisations around various issues Complexities in the local government structure including the constitution making process. NGOs have also led to confict, particularly with regard to in the democracy and governance sector feel that traditional and political boundaries. For instance, in the COPAC draft constitution does not do much to Mhangura and Makonde, chiefs are fghting over curtail executive powers and does not give a true areas of jurisdiction. In Hurungwe North, there are refection of the views of the Zimbabwean people two chiefs in confict: one claims that part of the hence giving rise to fears around the posterity of ward is under his jurisdiction because the majority the constitution. These conficts are mainly due to of the people in the area are his subjects given the issues to do with the perception that government fact that on their national identity cards they are does not trust NGOs and has therefore placed classifed as being under his traditional authority, several laws and policies that restrict their work, for the other claims that the whole ward is under is instance, the Public Order and Security Act (POSA) under his chieftaincy. and the proposed NGO Bill. NGOs also have conficts Domestic disputes were also identifed as among themselves and are constantly competing conficts that are prevalent in the community. for funds. This is seen by the duplication of eforts Participants noted that cases of rape, domestic and double dipping in some areas whilst there is violence, promiscuity, incest and other marital minimum NGO presence in areas that are in greater problems were observed in the community. Sexual need. and Gender Based Violence is also present at home, 2 Under Shona customary law chieftaincy is bestowed on a clan and 3 Participants were hesitant to clarify how political conficts play out in passed from one household to the next, this system is heavily reliant on their province, this could be due to fear of intimidation or harassment. oral tradition and makes it vulnerable to inheritance disputes, unlike in Ndebele culture where direct inheritance is practiced, i.e. a son inherits from the father 75 MAPPING PEACE INTIATIVES IN ZIMBABWE

Approaches to Peacebuilding To deal with issues of domestic confict, church Dialogue between conficting parties is one leaders are targeting couples with counselling of the methods that organisations in Mashonaland and relevant workshops and seminars. In these West use to mitigate confict in the province. seminars, marital issues are discussed openly and Key stakeholders and relevant government solutions to problems are identifed and used. As a departments are invited to the dialogue sessions. result, there has been a notable decline in domestic In order to involve the whole community, some violence and divorce. Some organisations employ organisations conduct open session discussions a confrontational approach by exposing the with the general public on identifed confict issues. perpetrators of violence hoping that naming and Organisations also engage key policymakers and shaming them will act as a deterrent factor. implementers by holding consultative meetings. Capacity building and empowerment is also Sports and the arts are also used as way a popular methodology. Various organisations of addressing confict in the province. Theatre distribute education and information materials to performances and dramas can spread the message community members who can use these in their of peace. These activities are entertaining and at the own initiatives. Organisations also carry out in- same time contain valuable messages and attract depth research to deepen their knowledge base large crowds. Sports are used to get youth to engage and understanding of the confict issues at hand. constructively with each other across the political Research fndings are used to inform communities divide. Community social work enables conficting on the root causes of conficts. parties to work together in a community project. Conficting parties are asked to help clean up their Peace Programming area together. In this way, they work together for Organisations in Mashonaland West have the good of their community and at the same time varied focus areas, namely: women and youth construct better relationships. empowerment, human rights, peacebuilding, HIV/ AIDS, constitutional reform, media monitoring and In Hurungwe district, Mangasi and Chirasa village are provision of free legal services to women. The major surrounded by rivers and have poor road network groups that are targeted by NGOs in the province causing villagers to have limited access to the health are women, youth, general community members, facilities, schools and marketing of their produce is SMEs and church leaders. Most of the organisations difcult. People living in the area realised a bridge meet their benefciaries on a monthly basis whilst would improve their lives, but because of their a signifcant number meet weekly and very few political diferences and acts of political violence, meet quarterly. CBOs fnd it easier to meet more they could not work together. With the chief’s frequently with their benefciaries because they permission our theatre group started performing are within the community and do not have to peacebuilding plays across the village. We also incur travel costs to access their benefciaries. All managed to source cement for the construction of organisations in the province hope their work will the bridge. The villages joined hands in constructing bring peace and tranquillity to their community. the bridge with the help of an engineer who gave Other outcomes that were common include: technical advice and our group kept encouraging behavioural change, sustainable livelihoods and them through the process with plays about peace. community development. Some of the gaps in A bridge was constructed and is of great beneft programming that were noted are: lack of fnancial to the community. The community has learnt that resources, political interference and inadequate unity, commitment and full participation yields development. The local leaders, chiefs, and village collaboration amongst stakeholders. heads can now take into consideration the villagers opinions before passing a decision. Villagers have established better relationships and can interact well despite their political diferences.

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We run a sports programme in Makonde district youth in income generating projects has helped which covers six communities. Whenever the them focus more on things that bring bread and soccer teams from two particular communities had butter to their tables. a match, there would be fghts and insults making Realising that there was a confict between young the matches violent. Through investigations, it was people because of their political afliations, revealed that the rift between the communities we managed to bring young people together was caused by how the community had been from all political parties to denounce political resettled and the relationships that had developed violence and to advocate to leaders for a peaceful thereafter. To assist with positive relationship community through the campaign: Love Peace, building, we planned for a select team that Love Zimbabwe. The event managed to bring would include players from both communities. over 100 youth leaders together and reached We resolved to frst facilitate a meeting of key more than 8000 members of the public in April stakeholders from both communities who were 2012. This event was followed by a peace pact the main parties to the confict. By confronting signing ceremony between the young people each other and talking about issues from their from the main political parties in Mashonaland past they were fnally able to get to the root cause West province under the theme: No Way to Peace, of their confict and saw how they had come Peace is the Way. to be enemies. We were able to have the select team of the two communities and they won the The participation of youth in confict transformation tournament’s 2010 soccer shield. has been afected by several challenges including Youth and Confict Transformation cultural beliefs on the position of young people Youth in Mashonaland West are defned as people in the community. The general feeling is that only below the age of 35 years, however the minimum age elderly people should lead discussions. This has is varied between 0 and 18 years. Youth organisations made it difcult for youth to take a leading role in have more formalised ways of engaging youth confict transformation. Another challenge young than other organisations. Young people are mainly people face is lack of information on confict involved in self-help projects, although some transformation and most processes are determined organisations impart knowledge on how to utilise by older and powerful politicians who do not involve resources through various programmes of citizen them in the initial stages of confict transformation. engagement for community development. Youth Other factors that afect participation of the youth have also been seen participating in various other can be addressed by efectively using alternative projects as volunteers. Meaningful participation media and new technologies as these are accessible of youth in the province is about engaging young to most young people. people in the planning and implementation of the project and at all levels, from village to provincial level as well as involving them in decision-making processes. Young people play a critical role in confict in the province, frstly as perpetrators and victims of violence and secondly as agents of peace. Despite being viewed as the major culprits of violence, youth have demonstrated their potential to infuence confict management in their communities. Peace initiatives carried out by young people have caused a major shift in the perceived and actual role of young people in confict transformation as they are now participating in a positive manner. Involving 77 MAPPING PEACE INTIATIVES IN ZIMBABWE

Operational Gaps and Recommendations

Level Gap/ Challenge Recommendation

1. 1. Organisation 1. Inadequate Funding: NGOs are grappling with 1. Basket funding: Participants shortages in funding their projects. In some cases recommend that this would help they have had to cancel worthwhile projects as a as more funders are more inclined result of funding constraints. It was noted that there towards funding coalitions as they is general decline in donor funding as a result of bring about better impact than donor fatigue. giving money to small individual 2. Lack of capacity leading to poor organisational organisations. systems e.g. absence of strategic plans, code 2. Organisational mentoring of ethics: In Mashonaland West most of the programme, establishing M&E organisations were formed as a result of needs systems in organisations within the community and were voluntary informal 3. Establishing an NGO workers groups or part of a religious organisation hence committee to look into staf welfare there was never concern over coming up with of NGO personnel elaborate documents or investing in skilled human 4. Adequate remuneration, mandatory resources. audits 3. Wage/salary discrepancies leading to high staf 5. Afliation to relevant networks, turnover: Most local NGOs are unable to pay as symbiotic operations of NGOs much as international NGOs which are increasingly decentralising to the provinces thereby attracting the much needed skilled labour. Another factor is that the working conditions in some organisations are appalling, this is worsened by the fact that there is no overall governing body for NGOs nor are the employees unionised. 4. Corruption in the identifcation of benefciaries as well as handling of donor funds 5. Poor Networking among organisations 6. 6OTUBCMFHPWFSONFOUQPMJDJFTTPNFPGXIJDIIBWF led to the restriction of the operations of NGOs e.g. when NGO activities were banned just before the 2008 election and some policies that compromise the security of staf.

1. 1. Community 1. Cultural barriers. Community have set norms 1. Adherence to cultural norms and customs that they adhere to which might be and values will ensure that the difcult for NGOs to understand. For example, community’s perception of NGOs traditional leaders are treated with utmost respect remains positive whilst some NGOs might want political leaders to 2. Community research/analysis or take the lead in development programmes. needs assessment. Involving the 2. Diferent needs of communities vis-a-vis community in planning PSHBOJTBUJPOBMQSPKFDUT6TVBMMZ/(0TDPNFUP 3. Information dissemination and a community with a project already developed community capacity building without consulting the community about its 4. Depoliticising community processes needs, this leads to communities having no sense of ownership of the project and this afects the sustainability of the project once the organisation pulls out. 3. Low knowledge and literacy levels 4. Political and religious polarisation

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1. 1. Provincal / National 1. Provincial projects not refective of the whole 1. 6TFUIFCPUUPNVQBQQSPBDIXIFO province planning for projects 2. Bureaucracy, adherence to protocol by provincial authorities for instance it takes an unnecessarily long time to get clearance to work in an area. 3. Political constraints that inhibit civil servants from carrying out their work 4. Hijacking of projects by political leaders

1. 1. Resources 1. Late disbursement of funds 1. Setting conditions for timely 2. Shift in funding patterns due to the global fnancial disbursement of funds this entails crisis and donor fatigue that NGOs also submit reports on 3. Dictatorial tendencies: donors dictate projects time and if disbursement is late 4. Reluctance to support salaries and administration communicate with donor that 5. Lack of follow up mechanism implementation will be late hence need for extension 2. Explore local fund raising opportunities such as from mining companies.

Provincial Priorities The major priority for organisations in Mashonaland West is economic empowerment as poverty and fnancial desperation are the reasons why most people engage in violent acts. Addressing the economic needs of youth through income generating projects and job creation will reduce their vulnerability to manipulation. The second highest priority for the province was social service delivery particularly in the health and education sector. The third priority noted was that government should resolve the issue of land tenure particularly in cases where mining claims were taking precedence over agricultural purposes. Tied to that is the need to diferentiate between criminal mining activities (chikorokoza) and informal mining. It was also noted that lack of tolerance was causing discord in the province and unity of purpose emerged as the fourth priority in the province. If people put aside their selfsh pursuits and work together for the development of the province then there can be harmony in Mashonaland West. The ffth priority was hard work and participation in peace initiatives. For people in the province, if everyone was sincere and took part actively in peacebuilding programmes, the initiatives would bring about meaningful change to the whole community.

79 Points of Contact for Peace Initiatives in Mashonaland West Province:

Amnesty International Zimbabwe Baptism of Fire Theatre Centre for Youth Empowerment and Development Farm Community Trust of Zimbabwe Kariba Youth Trust Makonde Focus MISA Zimbabwe Mhangura Theatre Time Musoromuchena Skills for Life National Constitutional Assembly Pentecostal Assemblies of Zimbabwe Practical Empowerment and Networking Youth Association Young Peoples Network on HIV and AIDS Young Women Leaders Forum Youth Action for Dialogue Network Zimbabwe Youth in Farming Zimbabwe Civic Education Trust Zimbabwe Junior Achievements ;JNCBCXF/BUJPOBM4UVEFOUT6OJPO Zimbabwe Peace Project Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association Zimbabwe Youth Council

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Provincial Background Media houses should also report responsibly and Masvingo Province is in the south-eastern part of without bias with regard to all their articles. The Zimbabwe. It borders Mozambique on its eastern province also needs free and fair elections and border and the provinces of Matabeleland South voter education for peace in their communities. to the south, Midlands to the north and west and People in Masvingo acknowledged that Manicaland to the north east. The province has an the government has put in place good policy area of 56,566 sq km and a population of 1, 486, 604. documents. However, communities need and The capital of the province is the town of Masvingo demand serious implementation of these policies which was founded in 1890 making it the oldest including accountability and transparency from town in Zimbabwe. Chiredzi and Triangle and are local leaders and duty bearers. In order to address the other major towns in the province. The Karanga this, leaders need training and capacity building, people form the majority of the population of the especially for the fnancial ofcers to ensure province. Masvingo is divided into 7 administrative accountability. This also holds true for leaders and districts. The districts are run by the rural district duty bearers for service providers where corruption councils, which are composed of members elected and nepotism are rampant. Communities need from the wards in the district. The districts are Zaka, quality and afordable service delivery including Bikita, Chivi and Masvingo located in the centre of clean water, electricity, refuse collection, health the province, Gutu in the north and Mwenezi and facilities and equipment, transport systems and Chiredzi in the south and east respectively. All these good road networks. The infrastructure in the seven districts have business centres known as province needs to be developed with particular 1 growth points. reference to roads and industries. Both provision of areas of operation for informal traders should Community Needs be addressed with while efective consumer rights Residents of Masvingo need peace and reconciliation are also necessary. Education must be afordable in the communities, especially those afected by the from primary level up to tertiary level. Teachers 2008 violence. Police have to take other state actors should receive living wages so they can do their seriously and ensure that there is security of the work and not have to concentrate on private person and the society at large, including taking lessons in order to receive supplemental income. issues of domestic violence seriously. Police should be non-partisan when it comes to issues of arrests Our passion is to empower community members and justice in cases of political violence. Victims of and improve their livelihoods through efective violence and rape need special assistance regarding integrated management of environmental resources education and income generation. Orphans of to the total satisfaction of all stakeholders. Mostly victims of violence also need support structures. through volunteerism, we have managed to train a People must be given a chance and the support total of 400 community members in environmental to go through a healing process including spiritual management. Following the training, there was support due to the violence and injustice. increased knowledge and practice of conservation agriculture. Environmental management has Zimbabwean democracy should be resuscitated generally improved as there has been a decrease through the existence and practice of tolerance and in the rate of deforestation, and at least 400 justice. As it is now, the justice system is abused by households are practicing conservation agriculture people approaching the police and making false and enjoying signifcant yields. reports, but the accused are al ways the ones whose time and energy is wasted until investigations Districts such as Chiredzi, Mwenezi and Chivi, prove the accusations are false. Traditional leaders among others are in need of food aid as they are need capacity building so they may be unbiased afected by drought. Food related conficts are and non-partisan in the execution of their duties as witnessed in these communities. Investment they often align themselves with a political party schemes for infrastructure development such as instead of serving all members of the community. irrigation should be prioritised. There should also be transparent procedures for allocation of stands. 1 Accessed on: http://www.zimtrade.co.zw/pdf/market%20 briefs/MasvingoProvince.pdf Residents of Masvingo Province want to embark on 84 MASVINGO some income generating activities; credit facilities province. With regard to NGOS in particular, the with reasonable interest rates should be availed to Governor has banned several from operating in the them. General livelihoods support is also required province. Conficts also exist within NGOs between for the vulnerable livelihoods in the province and the board and the secretariat levels. those who are historically marginalised. The elderly After the ban of the 29 NGOs in Masvingo, our need social security and the workers need salaries organisation managed to engage the stakeholders and wages above the poverty datum line. The and have almost all the bans lifted. Only one NGO disabled and their rights need to be considered and out of 29 is still banned and we continue to negotiate Women and youth play a critical in the with the governor’s ofce. We played a pivotal role development the province. Women need to be in making sure that the afected organisations incorporated and there should be special assistance managed to engage the governor and build their for those who have families. The province needs relationships with government institutions. assistance and capacity building regarding gender sensitivity. Men do not allow their wives to run At the economic level there are conficts over for ofce or campaign and men use women to Masvingo’s natural resources including confict over de-campaign other women. The patriarchal boundaries and land reform. Conficts also arise society needs to be addressed culturally through between the rich and the poor. Social conficts are education and sensitisation and women’s clubs also present including cultural conficts. Various should be resuscitated. Young people should denominations including traditional churches are be recognised and capacitated with life skills also a source of confict as people then become through various trainings and awareness of their hardened in their diferent belief systems. Conficts civil rights through civic education is required. arise between churches and this afects families especially when diferent members belong to We held peacebuilding workshops in Mwenezi diferent churches. focusing on women and their involvement in the HIV/AIDS related conficts also exist between traditional structures within the community. There discordant couples, due to stigma and discrimination was a special focus on the traditional justice system and around death and inheritance. Confict also as women were not allowed to attend or participate occurs at the family level with children being in such systems. After our work, women are satisfed deserted or families breaking apart. When children as they are now allowed to attend chief’s court cases with a disability are born, they are sometimes and can contribute during the discussions. sacrifced for traditional medicine in exchange for Confict Dynamics money. Other conficts arise in tertiary institutions The Zimbabwean community is highly polarised with sexual harassment by Great Zimbabwe male along political lines and these conficts afect lecturers against female students in what is often development. The efect is seen in many realms referred to as the ‘bedroom interview’. Similar of society including: fair application of the law conficts also arise between bosses and their (arrests), public service delivery, opportunities for secretaries. employment (favouritism of some over qualifed candidates), opportunities for education and quality of education, opportunities for loans and scholarships, food aid, and elections including imposition of candidates. Traditional leaders, elected leaders and some appointed and employed civil service employees were pointed out as contributors to confict as they are involved in nepotism as selective application of the law, thus widening the community diferences which are mainly along political lines. Abuse of authority can be seen as there are selective bans or permissions given to political parties or NGOs to operate in the 85 MAPPING PEACE INTIATIVES IN ZIMBABWE

Organisations in the province use particular methods Most female students at Great Zimbabwe and when it comes to peace specifcally, including: peace Masvingo polytechnic campus faced sexual concerts, sports peace tournaments, peace clubs, harassment from lecturers who demanded sexual rehabilitation, relationship building, workshops, favours in return for high marks to be awarded awareness campaigns, prayer meetings, support to them in assignments and fnal examinations. groups, public meetings called by traditional leaders, Such harassment was also stemming from non- role plays, economic empowerment through income academic staf such as security guards who would generation projects, and counselling (regarding take advantage and harass female students if they domestic conficts and political violence). When it returned to the school premises after the gate had comes to legal action, legal advice is given on steps been locked. We held group meetings where the and process, including recommendations. Reports ladies had a safe space to open up about their about crimes are encouraged and citizen’s arrests problems and this enabled us to document the also take place. cases and come up with solutions. We are pleased to say such cases are now few, and the greatest Peace Programming pleasure we have is that most female students now Organisations in the province focus on several have the courage to report such cases without fear areas of work including: skills development, of victimisation. human rights awareness, workers’ rights, legal aid, peacebuilding and confict resolution, advocacy Approaches to Peacebuilding and lobbying, good governance, civic education, Organisations in Masvingo use a wide variety capacity building, information dissemination and of approaches to encourage peace initiatives in sharing, disability rights, humanitarian aid and the province. Communities are involved in the food security, water and sanitation, environmental development and choosing of these diferent management, primary health care, performing arts methods which include traditional leaders, infuential as well as HIV/AIDS prevention, mitigation, care and people and government departments. Community support programmes. In Masvingo work is mainly members are trained to organise and facilitate done through: advocacy and lobbying, workshops, meetings and use their skills to teach to other technical and capacity building, dialogue, community members. Participatory approaches political education, counselling, sport and income such as Participatory Rural Appraisals are used as generation projects. well. In this way, communities inform organisations of their priorities so they can be worked on. Advocacy As the frst HIV support group in Masvingo, we have eforts are aimed at all levels of society so that facilitated the formation, training and coordination sensitisation can happen within the community as a of more than 500 other support groups in the whole. This also includes Information, Education and province and we have since expanded our target Communication (IEC) materials being developed group to include disadvantaged rural farmers, youth in accessible formats for people with disabilities. and orphans and vulnerable children. Masvingo We managed to resolve conficts at local schools and Province now has over 1000 support groups within the community through dialogue. However, empowered to carry out their own activities. We we still face the challenge of ofcial registration have also facilitated the formation and training of as an organisation. Despite this, we have a good advocacy teams representing the interests of people relationship with our local authorities such as the living with HIV at ward, district and provincial level. councillor. Venues are ofered to us free of charge so The organisation also facilitated the training of we may conduct some of our activities. The Public CHASA’s (community HIV &AIDS support agents), Relations department at the local police station has who are people on ART that volunteer to follow begun to invite our cooperation in order to solve up on defaulters (according to medicine collection some of the domestic violence disputes. We have records) and help others maintain drug adherence. learnt that by holding a dialogue, each participant This concept has proved to be very successful and has room to air out their views on the issue and only may soon be recognised by the Ministry of Health as then will a conclusion be drawn up. a best practice.

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The most frequent target group for the province The organisation was established as an umbrella is youth. Other target groups include: women, body representing students’ interests in lobbying traditional leaders, general community members, the government and other relevant bodies. We local authorities, people living with HIV/AIDS, small spearheaded a response to a challenge of poor to medium enterprises and business persons. The enrolment and access to education among students benefciaries are usually met on a monthly basis, in Masvingo Province. We did this through lobbying with some meeting daily, quarterly and weekly. of academic administrations to extend registration The three most common outcomes expected from their work are: communities living in peace closing dates in tertiary institutions and mobilised and tranquillity, improved community and multi- students for peaceful demonstrations when stakeholder participation, and sustainable livelihood our lobby eforts failed to achieve the intended and community development. The most frequently objectives. Since our intervention, authorities have mentioned gaps identifed in confict transformation been more cooperative in terms of being fexible programmes are: lack of fnancial resources, lack of about registration deadlines. This has signifcantly participation by members and limited coverage of cut down on the number of deferring students the programmes. from 1,500 to 300 in Masvingo Province. One of the important outcomes is that there is less stress Youth and Confict Transformation associated with registration processes and there In Masvingo, youth were described as individuals have been reduced cases of students failing to between the ages of 15 – 35 years of age. Most graduate due to logistical challenges. An estimated organisations include youth in their projects or work 4,300 fnal year students managed to graduate with them through livelihood projects, capacity without incident. building, dialogue and discussion forums, drama and sports. In Zimbabwean confict youth are often described as used by politicians to perpetrate violence. Young people are also described as having the potential to positively transform confict if empowered and supported so they can refuse to be used by politicians to engage in violence. The role of youth in confict transformation in Masvingo Province could be encouraged by youth driven confict transformation processes, establishment of committees of youth that act as human rights defenders, economically empowering youth, creating networks, advocacy initiatives and sport. Although youth have the potential to make a positive impact in their communities, they are economically marginalised and left out of development programmes. This exposes them to manipulation and abuse. Culturally speaking, youth in the province are not considered to be mature enough to contribute to confict resolution. Another obstacle to their involvement in peacebuilding is that youth in Masvingo are not united. There is need for domestic policies to be improved in order to enable them to transform confict. National policies should involve economic empowerment and ensure that youth are meaningfully involved in decision making processes whether political, social or economic. In addition, it is essential to ensure that the concerns of youth are addressed. 87 MAPPING PEACE INTIATIVES IN ZIMBABWE

Operational Gaps and Recommendations

Level Gap/ Challenge

1. 1. 1. 1. 2. 2. 3. 3. 4. 4. 5. 5. 1. 1. Community 1. 1. 2. 2. 3. 4. 3. level 4. 5. level 5. 6. 7. 6. 8. 7. 8. 1. 1. Provincial 1. 1. 2. 3. 2. 4. 3. 4. 1. 1. 1. 1. 2. 2. 3. 3. 4. 4. 5. 5. 6. 6. 7. 7. 8. 8. 9. 9.

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Provincial Priorities Masvingo Province placed economic empowerment for all youth regardless of political afliation as the highest priority for the province. The second highest priority is the importance of afordable and high quality education. Rehabilitation of victims of violence is also considered a top priority to address the political and other forms of violence in the province. Free and fair elections were ranked as another important priority for the province to achieve peace. The ffth highest priorities in Masvingo are: mainstreaming meaningful participation in political and electoral processes and youth driven confict transformation processes.

89 Points of Contact for Peace Initiatives in Masvingo Province: Amnesty International Batanai HIV & AIDS Service Organization CARITAS Chivi Residents and Rate Payers Association Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development Community Working Group On Health Consumer Council of Zimbabwe Dzimbahwe Poets Environment Management Trust Family Aids Caring Trust Gutu Youth Forum Masvingo Agenda Masvingo Community Skills Empowerment Masvingo Confict Management Association .BTWJOHP6OJUFE3FTJEFOUTBOE3BUFQBZFST Association Public Information Rights Forum - PIRF Bikita Students Solidarity Trust 6OJUFE$IJSFE[J3FTJEFOUTBOE3BUFQBZFST Association Women’s Action Group Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe - Masvingo Chapter WCoZ Young Women’s Forum Youth Alliance Masvingo Youth and Environment Action Support Network Youth Forum for Restoration of Democracy Youth of Zimbabwe for Transparency and Progress Zimbabwe Aids Network Zimbabwe Association of the Visually Handicapped (ZAVH) Zimbabwe Chamber of Informal Economy Association Zimbabwe Civic Education Trust ;JNCBCXF$POHSFTTPG5SBEF6OJPOT Zimbabwe Human Rights Association Zimbabwe National Network of People Living with HIV ;JNCBCXF/BUJPOBM4UVEFOUT6OJPO

90 91 92 93 MATABELELAND NORTH PROVINCE Compiled by: Adriana Franco Chitanana

Provincial Background People of the province have political needs Matabeleland North is a province in western including the call for devolution of power and a Zimbabwe. It borders the provinces of Midlands new constitution. Communities want more and and Mashonaland West to the east and northeast better political education in order to encourage respectively, and the province of Matabeleland an appreciation of political participation as a right South and the city of Bulawayo to the south. The and enhancement of the voter registration process. Zambezi River defnes its northern border, while The province calls for a healing process specifc its western border is shared with the country of to Matabeleland to take place because of the Botswana. It has an area of 75,025 sq km and a government sponsored Gukurahundi massacres population of 743,871. Lupane is the capital of the which occurred in the early 1980’s. This violence province, with Hwange and Victoria Falls as the only caused trauma on many levels. Communities note towns in this province. Products available in this that women and youth are especially afected as province have managed to fnd their way to export the violent past makes them hesitant to participate NBSLFUT TVDI BT UIF &VSPQFBO 6OJPO "NFSJDB politically. There is a lack of death certifcates issued South Africa, Namibia, Zambia and Botswana. The after the violence which makes it difcult for youth following are the Districts, which make up the and children to access identity documents and also Matabeleland North Province: Binga, Bubi, Hwange, afects young people who are trying to register to -VQBOF /LBZJ 5TIPMPUTIP 6NHV[B1 vote. Additionally, communities need special focus on the support for and encouragement of women’s Community Needs participation in politics. Communities in Matabeleland North have economic, Due to culture, women could not stand up and QPMJUJDBM TPDJBMBOEDVMUVSBMOFFET6OEFSFDPOPNJD speak; they did not have a voice in any meeting. Nor needs, communities lack education and training so were they allowed to go to work or become leaders. that they can take advantage of local resources and This was all because of lack of knowledge and has opportunities. The province needs employment since changed. Women are trained and taught opportunities, and especially systems that allow many things such that many women are even for employment of local youth. Natural resources getting leadership posts. Many ideas can be shared from the province should beneft the locals. There when women are included. are many resources in the province, for example: the timber in Tsholotsho and Lupane, minerals in Bubi In Matabeleland North, communities need and tourist attractions in Victoria Falls. Communities social and cultural support. The enhancement of in Matabeleland North also need working capital to civic education and information dissemination is venture into businesses e.g. in Binga, locals do not urgently necessary especially due to the remoteness have resources to venture into the fshing industry. of the province. Correct information taken from Ranching is another opportunity but locals, especially communities should feed into national processes youth, are not involved in that industry either. while accurate national information should fow back to communities as well. National radio The need for community development progress and coverage is lacking and community radios should success among the community youth and residents be established to help address this point. Civic inspired the establishment of a Youth Empowerment education and information are both elements that Leadership Programme. Trained youth support the can assist in changing the attitudes and perceptions community as they are now fnancially independent of young people. There is a need for facilities that through the use of locally available resources. Young will train youth to be (self) employed and there people can now employ other young people, rent should be better access to funding for youth-led out their own buildings and work together. People initiatives. Money is visibly spent in Harare and not come and work together irrespective of the cultural going to youth who live deep in Zimbabwe. The or environmental diferences. impression is that the Youth Funds for Matabeleland 1. Accessed on: http://www.zimtrade.co.zw/pdf/market%20briefs/ North and South, Midlands and Masvingo are not MATABELELAND%20NORTH.pdf 94 MATABELELAND NORTH yet accessed because of lack of personal links to the Confict Dynamics Minister of Youth, Development, Indigenisation and Several instances of political conficts were Empowerment and the director of the Zimbabwe mentioned in Matabeleland North. There is a Youth Council (ZYC). severe marginalisation of youth voices due to age Starting something new in our community is discrimination and the generation gap between difcult because some of the elders do not allow youth and adults causes confict as well. Political funny or fashionable things. A few youth formed conficts are said to afect advocacy work for young a group to support their rights. Every Tuesday they people. Structures in communities do not embrace had meetings while the parents were busy at work. empowerment of women so this creates confict Discussions were short and straight to the point so between communal systems and development that the parents would not fnd out. The day when initiatives. Political conficts also exist within civic our parents caught us in a meeting, they asked us society and tend to create more confict. The COPAC to continue. They listened and decided to support us constitution-making process also highlighted the all the way. political conficts in the province. The indigenisation movement was mentioned as a source of potential Afordable and accessible health and confict resolution, however it is currently being education facilities as well as development of used to give ownership of provincial mines to infrastructure, sanitation, social services and persons other than the local population and this human capital development are called for by the creates a lot of tension and frustration. province. Matabeleland North is the lowest ranked regarding education at Primary, Ordinary (O), and As a result of our work, some perpetrators were Advanced (A) levels. Secondary schools are mostly arrested and cases of violence declined signifcantly without laboratories. In Nkayi, 50% of primary in most communities. The public is now free to and secondary teachers are untrained. There are express their views without fear. few secondary schools ofering ‘A’ level education The province also pointed to tribal conficts (Hwange – 2, Victoria Falls – 1, Hwange Rural – 1). rising from the non-recognition of the following There is no college in the province, although there groups: Tonga, Nambya, Nyanja and others. Shona is is a new university being built in Lupane. The used by default for certain public services. However, university was supposed to be pro-agriculture but the language is not used by all peoples. When due to few laboratories in secondary schools, few inquiries are done in English, especially regarding people from the province will be able to access ofcial records, the response is in Shona which is that university. In general, there is a need to travel frustrating and wrong. Communities criticise that to Bulawayo for higher education. In Matabeleland local people are denied opportunities or fred, North there are no training institutions for tourism even from menial jobs due to tribal favouritism. despite the presence of major tourist attractions. At training institutions, local people are not given Nor are there mining schools despite the presence opportunities. Culturally speaking, the province of mineral resources. maintains that traditions should be conserved, but Shelter programmes are not getting to the they also recognise that these sometimes leave intended benefciaries and need to be reviewed. young people out of processes. Regarding HIV/AIDS The province wants to promote development of issues, young people try to discourage polygamy to youth centres for advancement of sport, culture, reduce Multiple Concurrent Partnerships (MCP), but information sharing and dissemination, and for traditionally, it is the right of the men to have more talent identifcation and marketing. Another wives if they want. improvement needed is that the Hwange museum Destruction of local languages has also created is in a dilapidated state and the Binga museum problems with regard to the development of local needs further development. Museums should also culture. For example, in Binga, many Shona and be developed in Lupane, Tsholotsho, Nkayi and Ndebele people fail to appreciate Tonga as a local 6NHV[B #VCJ language. Other local languages are also present in 95 MAPPING PEACE INTIATIVES IN ZIMBABWE various regions of the province including Lupane, stakeholders in dialogue and discussions to promote 5TIPMPUTIP /LBZJ 6NHV[B BOE #VCJ 5IFSF BSF understanding and further interests. Traditional actually over 13 languages in Matabeleland North leaders, politicians, local council members, churches but there is failure to recognise them. Young and civic society can bring about confict resolution people of all races also do not meet to discuss by lobbying for policies that support the local issues together and this creates further division and constituents. For instance, some advocacy eforts prejudice. are focused on investments in the province and that Conficts around the environment are also these must beneft locals. common in Matabeleland North. The Victoria Falls Promotion of tolerance between groups and rainforest was being protected by locals, mainly appreciation of diferences is another methodology youth, but in one area a restaurant was erected used in the province. This is also connected to without an environmental assessment being done. language choice and choice of words. The Chibuku In general, Lupane and Hwange have been taking Road to Fame Festival is an excellent example care of their environment. However, for example, of showcasing and celebrating diferences as natural gas exploration in Jotsholo has degraded the local groups perform in their own languages. environment substantially. The timber extraction This formula should be used more often so that and destruction in Lupane, Nkayi, Tsholotsho, and people familiarise themselves with each other. Jambezi is severe. There is a resettlement plan which Confict transformation is also promoted through placed people in the National Parks, especially in public meetings and awareness raising campaigns Jambezi area. This has led to lions killing cows and help create tolerance. Training on peacebuilding elephants killing people. There are also boundary and confict transformation is done to educate issues in the province as Hwange National Park is people on the causes and dynamics of confict partly in Lupane. so they are also more aware of the part they play In Matabeleland North, there are several in creating confict. Research is also carried out conficts around land. Youth try to get mining or to map and understand the causes of confict. hunting rights but are sidelined and unable to fully Traditional methods of confict resolution can be access systems of opportunity. Land redistribution very successful. For instance, there was a domestic also creates confict which refers to a time where dispute involving adult brothers who were fghting Shona people from outside of the region were over the inheritance from their parents. The confict resettled into Matabeleland provinces creating escalated and a local headman presided over the cultural confict because of lack of tolerance and case and emphasised that he would decide how to favouritism. This led to unequal distribution of share the wealth amongst the family members. All resources, land, water, coal, and hunting quarters. the belongings were listed down and the headman There is also a historical confict within the province started to share the items equally and everyone was because textbooks do not present the whole story happy. as information is left out. For instance, some things DMBJNFEBTTVDDFTTFTPG;"/6BSFBDUVBMMZTVDDFTTFT Peace Programming PG ;"16 "OPUIFS FYBNQMF JT UIBU +PTIVB /LPNP Organisations in the province focus on several areas was portrayed as a betrayer of the struggle in the of work including: youth empowerment, leadership Zimbabwean History textbook “The Dynamics of training, entrepreneurship development, promotion History”. of culture, minority rights, community development and participation, human rights advocacy and Approaches to Peacebuilding reporting, agriculture, HIV/AIDS awareness and There are several diferent approaches to community arts for development. In Matabeleland North, work work used in Matabeleland North. Advocacy eforts is mainly done through workshops, technical and involve top leadership, as well as traditional and capacity building, information dissemination, sport political leadership. There is engagement of various and Focus Group Discussions. The most frequent

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target group in the province is youth. Women, civil Networking with like-minded youth organisations society organisations and community members are has helped the youth to understand what other also targeted. The benefciaries are usually met on a young people are doing around the world. This monthly basis, with some meeting daily and others has contributed in their personal development and quarterly. essential life skills. The youth have since motivated The three most common outcomes residents to take the lead in claiming their rights expected from their work are: empowered through the establishment of the Victoria Falls communities with capacity to deal with confict; Combined Residents Association now spearheading communities living in peace and tranquillity; programmes that demand accountability from duty and improved community and multi-stakeholder bearers. A change in power relations between the participation. The most frequently mentioned old and young has been realised with young people gaps identifed in the confict transformation now holding infuential positions in the community. programmes are: lack of fnancial resources, lack For example, one male youth representative sits of knowledge and education including on confict in the Victoria Falls City diplomacy committee; transformation, lack of technical capacity and one young woman holds the position of Secretary inadequate collaboration amongst stakeholders. General in the Chinotimba Residents Association; one young man is the District Vice Chairperson of a political party while another young woman was elected Village Assembly Committee Secretary. Youth and Confict Transformation Matabeleland North generally agrees that the group referred to as youth are persons between the ages of 16 and 35. Organisations include youth in their programming through the following

97 MAPPING PEACE INTIATIVES IN ZIMBABWE methods: trainings, workshops, acquisition of small plots for self-reliance through poultry or basketry, information about indigenisation, emphasis on art and culture, and spreading values of a culture of tolerance and non-violence. In Zimbabwean confict, youth are often described as perpetrators and victims of violence as they are used by politicians as campaign tools. As such, they are the key players in confict resolution and should be encouraged to shun violence and participate in peacebuilding projects. The province also noted that youth play both positive and negative roles in confict transformation as they can be protagonists or antagonists of peace. It was agreed that youth are a vulnerable group who is not able or allowed to participate fully in national processes. It is therefore difcult for young people to participate in confict transformation processes. Reasons for this include manipulation by those with power and money, not being taken seriously as a group, fnancial constraints, political afliations or labelling and age discrimination. The province emphasised the need for domestic policies to be improved especially regarding the National Youth Service which OFHBUJWFMZ JOEPDUSJOBUFT ZPVOH QFPQMF 6OFRVBM access to indigenisation opportunities and domestic violence were also mentioned as challenges whose policies should improve in order for youth to have more opportunities and to deter the acceptance of a culture of violence. Devolution of power was also emphasised as an important change that is needed so the provinces can focus funding towards youth development. Current national participation by youth in the province is low because they are not supported by local or political structures. However, it is important that youth be recognised and invited to community development platforms as well as enabled to play an active role in national development. Youth participation is about considering and executing ideas and recommendations that come from young people; only then is it successful.

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Operational Gaps and Recommendations

Level Gap/ Challenge

1. 1. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 2. 3. 4. 1. 1. Community 1. 1. 2. 3. 2. 3. 4. 4. 5. 5. 6. 6. 7. 7. 8. 8. 1. 1. Provincial 1. 1. 2. 3. 2. 3. 4. 4. 5. 5. 6. 6. 7. 7. 8. 8. 9. 9. 1. 1. 11.

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1. 1. National 1. 2.1. 2. 3. 3. 4.2. 4. 5.3. 5. 6. 7.4. 6. 8.5. 7. 9. 6. 11. 7. 12. 13. 14.

1. Resources 1. 2.1. 2. 3. 4.2. 5. 6. 3. 7. 4. 8.3. 5. 9. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 4. 16. 17.5. 18.

Provincial Priorities Matabeleland North placed devolution of power as their top priority for the province. The second highest priority for the province is about information on political tolerance and that the government of Zimbabwe should allocate resources equally. The third highest priority for the province was a tie between two topics: a) that the government should facilitate the drafting and adoption of a minority rights policy framework which should be included in the national constitution, and b) that discrimination especially based on language and culture should be eliminated and people of diverse backgrounds should work together. Thereafter, the next three topics tied as the fnal area of priority for Matabeleland province: a) awareness raising and advocacy on peacebuilding through festivals in communities, b) national healing and 100 accountability by constituting an independent truth and reconciliation commission to address 1983 massacres, and c) respect for everyone’s language, culture and way of life in the province.

Points of Contact for Peace Initiatives in Matabeleland North Province: Bubi Agriculture Center Busy Island Youth Society Hwange District Youth Development Coalition Hwange Human Rights Youth Forum )XBOHF6SCBO"SUT"TTPDJBUJPO Lupane Youth for Development Nambiya Development Organisation Trust National Youth Development Trust - NYDT Rural Communities Empowerment Trust Sustainable Agriculture Trust Tsholotsho Development Association

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Provincial Background in areas where donors have been turned away Midlands is a province with an area of 49,166 sq km (e.g. Mberengwa, Lower Gweru, Chiwundura, and a population of 1,622,476. Gweru is the capital Nhema). Youth and women’s empowerment is also of the province. It is home to various peoples. As a called for by Midlands Province including access central point in Zimbabwe it has a blend of Shona, to (positions of) leadership, employment and Ndebele, and Chewa among various other languages equal access to means of production, especially spoken in Zimbabwe. It has the third largest city in regarding women and their ownership of land. Zimbabwe which is Gweru, followed by Kwekwe, Within this vein, it was also highlighted that which is considerably the town with the richest education and awareness-raising for both men industries in both mining and manufacturing with and women on gender issues is very important. gold mines all-over. The following are the Districts The topic of identifying and reducing Gender which make up the Midlands Province: Gokwe Based Violence (GBV) was specifcally pointed out North, Gokwe South, Gweru, Kwekwe, Mberengwa, as a way of understanding and promoting confict Mvumba, Shurugwi, and Zvishavane.1 resolution at the micro-level which could lead to peaceful transformation at the macro-level as well. Community Needs Access to afordable and high quality Communities in Midlands Province want to live peacefully and without disturbances, even when education as well as information is also important there are political activities, elections or the for the communities in Midlands Province. Access to distribution of aid. The understanding of peace a variety of media with a plurality of information is spans a wide set of circumstances: tolerance, called for. Communities need quality and afordable respect, harmony, trust, tranquillity, love, afection, information to know what is going on in their areas self-esteem, peace of mind, living in a non-violent and the country; this could also be addressed environment, being able to participate freely, and through electronic blogs and information services. the co-existence of political beliefs without fear There should be equal opportunities in electronic of violence. The vision of peaceful communities and print media for all political parties. Education of encompasses every person’s access to human citizens and particularly youth was also highlighted rights. This includes the basic rights to life and social as a powerful confict prevention tool which can give cultural and political rights. Those rights especially young people other options in life so that they are emphasised were freedoms including freedom from less likely to commit violence. In addition to formal fear, political freedoms, and freedom of speech (and education, civic education is needed to support after speech). Midlands communities need equal peaceful communities. This should include human and non-partisan access to opportunities without rights education and preservation and respect for favouritism, nepotism, harassment, intimidation, public utilities including road signs, schools and discrimination or segregation. Citizens need full clinics which should be free from political afliation participation, including that of women, youth and through grafti or otherwise. Awareness-raising children. They also want a safe and threat-free life. around the rights of those living with HIV/AIDS will Communities need all freedoms so that citizens may help reduce stigmatisation. Access to afordable enjoy all their rights as enshrined in the constitution. antiretroviral treatment (ART) is also needed in Midlands Province also emphasises Midlands communities. School education on sexual empowerment of their communities as an reproductive health rights should be encouraged important element of living peacefully. Economic for basic knowledge and awareness. Citizens also empowerment would contribute towards confict need information provision and sensitisation so prevention by lessening or eliminating conficts they can demand creation of medical services. over resources. Economic development such as Another need highlighted by Midlands Province (self) employment and income-generating projects is service provision. Communities need equal and are very important for the province, especially non-partisan access to services emphasising that 1. Accessed on: http://www.zimtrade.co.zw/pdf/market%20briefs/ service providers should be neutral. Proper service Midlands.pdf 104 MIDLANDS delivery includes access to quality and afordable: ofce bearers should be non-partisan. Communities roads, water and sanitation, electricity, health care, do not want bribery to be necessary for regular education and recreational facilities for children services including the school system, and especially and young people. For instance, in the case of the regarding equal access to services. There should education system, teachers do not receive a living be respect for civic rights and order, for example wage as civil servants, so parents have to pay extra fairness with regard to queues and waiting in the fees to give them incentives to work at the particular order that you arrive. school. Access to adequate loan and payment Communities also want to know about the systems should also be provided so as to decrease the use of funds received by all civil servants from occurrence of debt collectors terrorising community service providers. They also need ZIMRA to desist members. Psychosocial support, especially to from creating more taxes and expenses for citizens Orphans and other Vulnerable Children (OVCs) and especially those who have already adhered their caretakers, should be provided and temporary to previous regulations and paid those dues. shelters and/or safe houses should be made available ZESA should fnd other means of fnancing rural for victims of domestic and political violence. electrifcation than charging urban dwellers for The bottom line is that communities and these costs (a minimal charge should be negotiated community members need stability. They need to with consumers). be able to rely on certain basics and have some The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) soldiers, knowledge and trust about the future so as to CID, CIO, and other state security forces and feel comfortable and not remain uncertain. This traditional leaders must remain non-partisan and is especially important because of the fnancial be reminded of their responsibilities and the way collapse which necessitated the change from the they should operate so that the rule of law may Zimbabwe Dollar to a multi-currency economy. be equally applied. Communities do not want Through this process, the pension system was their citizens to be repressed and instead call for re-set and everyone lost their retirement funds. arbitration mechanisms so that conficting parties The Gweru community had for a long time can meet and resolve conficts. Midlands Province complained about unfair distribution of electricity, communities should be equally accessible for unfair billing and more hours of load shedding in the development work and food aid. suburbs of Mkoba. After noticing all these problems Midlands Province also calls for leadership and the association had to engage the electricity support structures of violence to be restrained. They company to try and resolve the problem that had want leaders to be clear and adhere to their stance created more tension between the community and on non-violence. They need churches to genuinely the power company. After dialogue meetings, some preach non-violence and there should be no more of the issues were resolved. The community of Mkoba political bases at schools or elsewhere. Midlands started enjoying equal distribution of power. The wants all political parties to have equal access to billing system improved. The confict was resolved space for rallies and there should be encouragement between ZESA and members of the community of holding joint rallies with mixed political party who had developed a tendency of beating up any members. Midlands Province suggests that the employee of ZESA whenever he/she visited their Members of Parliament have a slot during their houses to perform meter readings. Members of the community feedback programmes to specifcally community also had the privilege to know more discuss and denounce violence. The communities about the problems facing the power company. We need JOMIC to be transparent at all levels regarding have succeeded through dialogue but other things their recommendations and proper transmission of remain beyond our control as they are of national these to the community level. Midlands communities level. need these things for themselves and also so that Communities in Midlands Province call there can be improved bilateral relations with other for transparency, accountability, anti-corruption countries (increased trade, etc.) which will beneft measures and equal application of the law. Public 105 MAPPING PEACE INTIATIVES IN ZIMBABWE communities across Zimbabwe. They also desire for example Zvishavane, are handling cases of more positive international exposure and cultural rape and domestic violence which are supposed to exchange programmes. be handled in criminal courts. Domestic conficts have to do with cultural issues, or are between Confict Dynamics parents and their children, or are apparent during Several instances of political conficts were the inheritance process (where the widow has mentioned in Midlands Province. Partisanship is problems accessing inheritance from the estate the main problem which induces favouritism and of the deceased husband), or the (non)payment violence on diferent sides of party lines. Mberengwa of maintenance contributions to the ex-wife and/ was mentioned as a hot spot as well as Chirumhanzu or children. Economic confict at household level which have both had houses burnt and citizens and domestic violence is apparent, especially in maimed during election periods. Conficts also arise cases of misuse of family income, for instance when between councillors (elected ofcials) and council proceeds from cotton harvesting are consumed civil servants in Gweru urban. In Kwekwe, there is by the husband whereas the wife is the one who politicisation of access to natural resources while in earned those funds. Mberengwa and Chirumhanzu, NGOs are viewed as agents of regime change. In Gokwe, Mberengwa, Lower Gweru, and We held a dialogue session in Chiruwara with Zvishavane, there are cultural practises which work diferent political party members living in the same against women’s empowerment. In Mberengwa- community, who could not draw water from the Shurugwi, there was also a case of a son beating same source. After the workshop they managed to his mother which highlighted the lack of respect forgive each other and they are now living peacefully for women. Cultural conficts such as Kuzvarira also together and draining water from the same source. violate women’s rights when a girl-child is handed Economic conficts also arise in communities over from one family to another in order to appease in Midlands. There is ferce competition over avenging spirits. Gender stereotypes are also rooted resources especially with regard to mineral claims. in community life, at times causing confict. For Although relief aid comes in, it is inadequate, and example, in Chiwundura there is a school headed by the distribution of this aid is often partisan in areas a lady and the male teachers were uncomfortable such as Zhombe, Kwekwe, Chiwundura, Shurugwi working under her leadership, but this was resolved and Lower Gweru. NGOs are also in confict within through mediation by the local chief. the province as they are duplicating eforts, for In 2011, men in the community were openly and instance in Shurugwi, which causes benefciaries to violently against the appointment of a female ‘double dip’. For example, some NGOs give transport head at their local school on cultural grounds (men reimbursements, others do not; some provide food should naturally be the heads in all community in certain cases while others do not. This brings up settings including schools). We engaged the expectations in the community which can cause community through dialogue and the assistance frustrations and confict. Another confict arises of two local chiefs which resulted in the community from the incentives given to community volunteers accepting the headmistress in the spirit of gender which can be seen as not enough when compared equality and professional competency. to the amount of work they actually do. In Midlands, There are also conficts around religion in there is also confict between the rate payers and Midlands Province. For example, churches have service providers due to poor service delivery of split because of difering doctrines. Places of water and electricity as well as garbage collection worship and pilgrimage also pose a threat to in urban areas. environmental conservation and lack of proper Conficts based on issues of gender are also sanitation standards. The generation gap is also common in communities of Midlands. People being exacerbated in some churches where youth complain that traditional leaders in communities, are banned from churches under the pretext that

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they are perpetrators of violence. Confict may Transparency, accountability, and good governance also arise between family members who practice are practised by organisations as they implement religion versus those who engage in traditional their training or capacity building programmes. worship as they blame one another for problems The community approach in the Province that arise. In Midlands, there are also tribal conficts focuses on empowering communities so they between Shona, Ndebele, Mberengwa, Masase, may be self-reliant. Civic education is a major Kezi and Dolo. For example, in Lower Gweru a contribution to empowerment, especially focusing school had three teachers from Mashonaland who on human rights, voter education and law. were teaching core subjects in Shona to Ndebele Community members, villagers and schools are also speaking children. encouraged to form Peace Clubs to foster harmony and non-violence at various levels of community life. Approaches to Peacebuilding Communities are approached through a number of There are many approaches used for exciting methodologies including theatre, sports community work in Midlands Province. The work ‘edutainment’12, and competitions to attract large is done on a basis of common values especially crowds in order to spread positive messages and including a non-partisan approach. They want important information. Community members who to support communities so they can resolve exhibit a high level of skills in a particular area confict in their own way. When approaching a such as gender, peace, advocacy or HIV/AIDS are community for the frst time or starting work on a new topic, baseline surveys are used to set up a proper Monitoring and Evaluation systems. 2 These are methods which involve education and information dissemination through entertainment. 107 MAPPING PEACE INTIATIVES IN ZIMBABWE crowds in order to spread positive messages and We began a dialogue in Mkoba South over the issue important information. Community members who of safe and clean water by gathering community exhibitcelebrated a high as champions level of skillsfor that in issue. a particular Community area residents and the local authority. At frst it was suchempowerment as gender, also peace, comes advocacy from the or introduction HIV/AIDS are of very difcult and tense, but tensions reduced as celebratedincome-generating as champions projects. for that issue. Community parties got to know each other. The stakeholders empowerment also comes from the introduction of demanded to be notifed prior to water cuts and A popular methodology to use at community income-generating projects. refused to accept exaggerated water bills. The local level is training. Peacebuilding trainings target A popular methodology to use at community authority explained that it was a problem caused traditional chiefs, village heads, councillors, church level is training. Peacebuilding trainings target by old pumps and electricity and that they are leaders, and community members. Furthermore, traditional chiefs, village heads, councillors, church replacing the pumps. The residents acknowledged Training of Trainers (ToT) are also used to train leaders, and community members. Furthermore, these facts and water shortages have now individuals who then carry the topic forward within Training of Trainers (ToT) are also used to train improved. The community also knows that it is the community and are in touch with their trainers individuals who then carry the topic forward within their responsibility to report broken down pipes who follow up on progress made. These trainings the community and are in touch with their trainers and cases of vandalism of council property. are on peace and gender issues and involve several who follow up on progress made. These trainings people within each district. Communities are also Communities are also capacitated with are on peace and gender issues and involve several trained on self-sustenance and formation of support regard to advocacy and lobbying. Some of the people within each district. Communities are also groups. Community training on communication advocacy targets leadership including Members of trained on self-sustenance and formation of support is popular and done with community members Parliament, chiefs, and village heads. Other eforts groups. Community training on communication and church groups. Also common is specifc engage service providers on issues which are is popular and done with community members psychosocial support training for community based causing confict with and within the communities. and church groups. Also common is specifc counsellors dealing with victims of violence and Another approach includes community campaigns psychosocial support training for community based other community members seeking support. on particular issues, such as peacebuilding, focused counsellors dealing with victims of violence and at ward level. other Dialogue community and mediation members are seeking other methodologiessupport. usedDialogue frequently in andMidlands mediation communities. are Dialogues other Peace Programming methodologieson peacebuilding used and con frequentlyfict resolution in Midlands involve Organisations in the province focus on several communities.local leaders including Dialogues those on from peacebuilding the church and or areas of work including: confict management, conyouthfict sector. resolution The dialogues involve localcreate leaders space to including resolve dialogue, peacebuilding, women, civic education, thoseconficts from between the church diferent or interest youth groups sector. such The violence against women and children, human dialoguesas political create parties, space while to resolvethey also con buildficts networksbetween rights, youth participation, HIV/AIDS, development, diacrossferent con interestfict lines. groups In some such cases, as political a Community parties, governance, electoral reforms, relief work, capacity whileCharter they is made also build up as networks a Code ofacross Conduct conf throughict lines. building, legal rights, and healing. In Midlands, Inwhich some members cases, a Community agree to respect Charter certain is made values. up as work is mainly done through dialogue, advocacy aStill Code other of meetingsConduct throughare focused which on membersthe micro-level, agree and lobbying, technical and capacity building, toencouraging respect certain couples values. communication. Still other meetings are community participation, political education and focused on the micro-level, encouraging couples workshops. The most frequent target groups for the communication. province are women and youth while community members, local authorities, men, community and traditional leaders, political parties and leadership, and all citizens are also targeted. The benefciaries are almost always met on a monthly basis. The most common outcomes expected from their work are: communities living in peace and tranquillity, followed by empowered communities with capacity to deal with confict, and improved community and multi-stakeholder participation. The most frequently mentioned gaps identifed in

108 MIDLANDS the confict transformation programmes are: lack of In Gweru, we have successfully carried out a voter fnancial resources, limited programme coverage, registration programme for youth. The main lack of technical capacity, lack of leadership training challenge we faced was that there was only one in confict management, and lack of participation registration centre in the town and the staf refused by stakeholders. to register youths for one reason or another. After consulting ZLHR lawyers, the staf at the registrar Youth and Confict Transformation generals’ ofce responded by opening another Midlands generally agrees that the group referred registration centre in Mkoba whose staf is youth to as youth are persons between the ages of 18 and friendly. 35, whether married or unmarried. Organisations include youth in their programming with particular emphasis on the creation of youth training centres, dialogue, ‘no to violence’ campaigns, peace clubs, training, leadership and sexual reproductive health. In Zimbabwean conficts, youth is often described as perpetrators of violence who are manipulated and used by politicians to cause confict for their political gain (most common during elections). Young people are also described as the potential catalysts for peace and organisations emphasised that youth need education and economic empowerment as they are the future of the country. The province also noted that youth play a positive role in confict transformation as they realise the importance of peace and are taking part in peace campaigns in various communities. Despite these signs and the willingness of youth to take part in confict transformation, there are potential limitations which include unemployment, lack of fnancial independence, their voices not being heard because of cultural norms, and a general lack of activity which can drive them towards politics and violent competition. Because of this, there is an emphasis on the need for domestic policies to be improved in order to avail opportunities to unleash the positive potential in youth for confict transformation. Current national participation by youth in the province is quite limited because they are not involved in processes or decisions and should be given platforms where their views can be aired and heard.

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Operational Gaps and Recommendations

Level Gap/ Challenge

1. 1. 1. 1. 2. 3. 2. 3. 1. 1. Community 1. 1. 2. 2. 3. 3. 4. 4. 5. 5. 1. 1. Provincial 1. 1.

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1. 1. National 1. Lack of political support/ will. 1. Engagement of the policy makers 2. Lack of vehicles for transport to outreach areas, lack 2. Engage donor community. of ofce 3. Capacitate young women through 3. Limited participation of young women due to fear young women forums 4. Media licences restricted 4. Lobby and advocacy for media 5. Religious intolerance freedom and repeal of restrictive laws on information dissemination 5. Encourage dialogue within and between the parties concerned

1. 1. Resources 1. Political instability 1. Civic education to eliminate 2. Lack of computers , donor fatigue politicisation of programmes 3. Donor prescription, donor dependency syndrome, 2. Try to do fundraising projects 4. Donors frequently change topics (income generating projects), self reliance, form coalition for donor appeal 3. Break free of the donor cycle/trap, long term projects should include fexibility, improve negotiation and defence of project focus and implementation 4. Re-align proposals to include your focus as well as the new angle, needs assessment at grassroots level

Provincial Priorities Finally, Midlands wants transparency within their Midlands province places ‘Civic Education to all communities along with respect for human rights citizens in the province’ as their top priority. They and diversity. describe this as being a tool that creates awareness in communities. This should include education on confict management and peacebuilding and a special focus on educating young people to denounce being used as tools of violence. Following civic education, communities want religious groups to preach the fundamental aspects of the gospel of Jesus Christ / Allah / Jah by teaching people that love is natural and hate is satanic. The third priority for Midlands province is tolerance. This refers to tolerance of each other’s world view and respect for agreed terms. Midlands wants to turn warring parties into allies through the belief that, “Peace should start with me. I should accept other people’s mistakes and not always be partisan.” Midlands believes that the best way to create peace is to maintain the right way of living within your community. Midlands also places encouragement of dialogue between confict parties as a priority.

111 Points of Contact for Peace Initiatives in Midlands Province: Adventist Development and Relief Agency Catholic Commision for Justice and Peace Centre for Confict Management and Transformation Civic Education Network Trust - Civnet Gweru Agenda Heal Africa Trust Jointed Hands Welfare Oragnisation Lutheran Development Service Midlands Confict Management Association Mkoba South Confict Management Musasa National Association of Non-Governmental Organizations National Council of the Disabled Persons of Zimbabwe National Volcano of Hope Nkabazwe Community Radio Initiative Padare Men’s Forum on Gender Students Christian Movement of Zimbabwe Women International Coalition Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe Youth Initiative for Democracy in Zimbabwe - YIDEZ ;JNCBCXF$POHSFTTPG5SBEF6OJPOT Zimbabwe Council of Churches Zimbabwe Election Support Network Zimbabwe Organisation for Youth in Politics

112 113 114 DATABASE

115 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

Abammeli Lawyers Bulawayo Jul-12 Trust Freedom Mazwi - 8th foor, Fidelity Life [email protected] 263773798329 Promotion and protection of Through educating citizens on Bulawayo, Matabeleland Youth, women and men who Network Researcher Building, Bulawayo human rights and assisting available mechanisms of legally North, Matabeleland South are victims of human rights people whose rights have been dealing with past and present abuses violated injustices

Adventist Harare Jan-80 Registered Pansi Katenga - 2 Princess Drive, katengap@ Food security, Health, Education, Advocacy for children’s rights, Gokwe North, Gweru, Orphans and other vulnerable Development and Country Director Highlands, Harare adrazimbabwe.org/ www. Economic Development and ofering capacity building in Bulilima, Binga, Harare children and other vulnerable Relief Agency - [email protected] adrazimbabwe.org Emergency Management child protection to community Metropolitan, Ruwa groups in communities. ADRA Zimbabwe +263 4 leadership 776786/88/93

Africa Community Harare Nov-94 Trust Kathy Stewart 145 Exploration House, zimbookteam@gmail. 2634253608 Facilitating research, publishing Promoting non-violent Bindura, Shamva, Mazowe, Provincial, District and Publishing and Metropolitan Cnr Robert Mugabe com and capacity building in communication, involving the Mt Darwin Ward leadership with the Development Trust and Fifth, Harare marginalised communities local authorities from provincial communities they lead, war - ACPD and the institutions that level to the lowest level veterans, political leaders support them for democratic and their supporters, church development, good local leaders governance, peacebuilding and gender equality

African Reform Harare Jan-12 Trust Cynthia 38 Arundel School [email protected] 263772438068 Political leadership development Raising awareness of issues of All regions in Zimbabwe Current and future policy Institute - ARI Metropolitan Hakutangwi - Road, Mount Pleasant, confict to current and future makers Executive Director Harare policy makers and political leaders AFROMEDIA Bulawayo Mar-12 Registered with Sifelani Tsiko 10 Natal Road, [email protected] 263733478515 www.afromedia.org Social and development news Uniting the community through Communities in both Zimbabwe Media Belgravia, Harare human interest news coverage marginalised and elite Commission with the aim of equipping everyone Amnesty Masvingo Dec-99 NGO Tichayana 2nd Floor ZIMRE tichamlambo@gmail. 263778016702 Human Rights Pregnant women and International Mlambo Building com displaced people and prisoners of conscience Amnesty Mashonaland Jan-61 Paul Nechishanyi 13661 Gunhill paul.innocent@yahoo. 263773215711 www.amnesty.co.zw To end human rights abuse Mashonaland West Marginalised groups and International West - Mash West Local Chinhoyi - 48 Tsanzwa com around the world victims as well as perpetrators Zimbabwe Coordinator Doma, Mhangura Baptism of Fire Mashonaland May-89 National Arts Sibanda S - 329 Chikangwe, Karoi [email protected] 263773658277 Peacebuilding and community Hurungwe Ward 17, Chief Entire community Theatre West Council of Director participation Nyamhunga, Mangisi Village Zimbabwe Batanai HIV & Masvingo Dec-92 PVO Peter Marimi - 6 Rekayi Tangwena [email protected] 263772405790 www.bhaso.org Empowerment of people infected Empowering HIV positive Masvingo Province People living with HIV, HIV AIDS Service Information Ofcer Avenue, Masvingo and afected by HIV/AIDS for people to advocate for their Support groups, Youth and Organization - positive living rights and services due to them. disadvantaged farmers (rural) BHASO Bubi Agriculture Matabeleland Sep-11 Not Registered Sethulo Ndebele Siganda ndebelesethulo@ymail. 263772861049 Agriculture and self employment Focus group discussion Bubi Young women Center North com projects

Bulawayo Agenda Bulawayo, Oct-02 Civic Society Busani Ncube- Bulawayo Agenda, [email protected] +263712 642 932, www. Defending human rights, Bulawayo, Matabeleland Civic society organisations Matabeleland Organisation Programs Manager Number 49 A, Josiah +263775576232 bulawayoagenda. peacebuilding North, Matabeleland South, who share same values North, (CSO) Tongogara and Fourth com Midlands, Masvingo Matabeleland Avenue, Bulawayo South, Midlands, Masvingo Bulawayo Bulawayo Jan-08 Welfare John Ndebele - Ofce 3 Dan Square buiysapyouths@yahoo. 263773715982 Youth empowerment and Peace caravan, peace garden, Nkayi Youth aged 18-35 years, Integrated Youth WO/26/93 Director Building Cnr Josiah com community development, peace tournaments communities Survival Alternative Tongogara/4th peacebuilding and good local Project - BUIYSAP Avenue Bulawayo democracy Busy Island Youth Matabeleland Jan-08 Registered with Kelvin Ncube 5613 Mkhosana, kelvin2killtoo@yahoo. 263777019159 We are involved in promoting Peacebuilding, we attend Hwange Urban, Hwange Youth between 16-35 years Society North Ministry of Youth Victoria Falls com youth participation in decision workshops which are organised Rural and Victoria Falls from the community and Development making processes. We train youth by Coalition of which we on behavioural change, HIV and meaningfully participate as we AIDS and entrepreneurship partake in peacebuilding sports galas after the trainings and we share the information gained to the audience

116 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

117 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

CARITAS Masvingo Aug-99 Faith Based Oppa Rukara 14 Hofmeyer Street, [email protected] 263772570822 Humanitarian work, food Training on disaster risk Masvingo District Wards 1 All age groups at churches, Organisation Masvingo security, HIV/AIDS issues, Water reduction and transformational and 2; Bikita Wards 4, 32, 12, traditional leaders and the and Sanitation, and orphans leadership 13, 15, 18, 19, 31 councillors.

Caritas Mutare Manicaland May-72 Under Roman Nhamo St Dominic High nhondoyomoto@cadec. 2632060504 www. Food security, livelihood, water Through empowering Nyanga and Chimanimani All ages Catholic Church Hondoyomoto School, Cnr Hebert co.zw caritaszimbabwe.org and sanitation, community communities to participate Chitepo and J Moyo, capacity building actively in development work in Mutare their areas. Catholic Midlands Mar-72 Faith Based Nobert Mauta- No. 77 kopje Road, gwerevendewillard@ 263775160751 Advocacy for positive policies Through social behaviour Midlands, Mashonaland West Churches and communities Commission for Organisation Coordinator Gweru gmail.com in cultures, beliefs and change and communication. and Matabeleland South. through church and Justice and Peace practices within churches and community working groups. - CCJP communities in a bid to reduce or eliminate diseases including HIV and AIDS and also the elimination of infant deaths Catholic Mashonaland Jan-77 Faith Based Phillip Muyengwa All Souls Mission P.Bag philliptmuyengwa@ 263734584604 To advocate and work for justice Peacebuilding activities Mutoko All community members Commission for East Organisation 501, Mutoko rocketmail.com and peace, guided by the social through engaging political regardless of political Justice and Peace - teaching of the church for a just parties to come together and afliation, religion and Zimbabwe and peaceful community. coexist. disability. Centre for Harare Jun-04 Trust Philip Pasirayi - 220 Samora Machel centrefordevelopment@ 263772697782 www.ccdz.org.zw We promote meaningful Lobbying policy makers for Mashonaland West, Traditional leaders, youth, Community Metropolitan Director Ave, Harare gmail.com community participation peace friendly legislation, Mashonaland East, women and councillors Development in dialogue with community Mashonaland Central Zimbabwe - CCDZ stakeholders on healing, rehabilitation and integration Centre for Confict Midlands Feb-2003 Trust Stembile Mpofu - 28 Oxford Ave, [email protected] 2634788154 www.ccmt.org.zw Community confict Facilitating community confict Midlands Province Community members facing Management and Director Newlands, Harare transformation and intervention confict, government, district Transformation - peacebuilding and traditional authorities CCMT Centre for Youth Mashonaland Dec-11 Trust Henry Muwungani 4014 Cold Stream, henrymuwungani278@ +263773393458, Peacebuilding through dialogue We are doing trainings on Chinhoyi, Kariba, Karoi, Youth 18 – 35 years Empowerment West - Director Chinhoyi gmail.com +263734 935 943 between the policy makers, peace building, creating Makonde, Mhangura, and Development community leaders and young platforms for young people to Sheckliton, Alaska, Chegutu, (CYED) people through training, share and discuss challenges Bulawayo, Matabeleland education and advocacy. or problems that afect them at North, Mashonaland Central ward or village level. Centre For Peace Harare Feb-01 Trust Judith Kamutepfa 5 Corrine Close, judykamutepfa1@yahoo. www.cpia.org.zw Promotion of sustainable peace, Through national dialogue, Matabeleland North, Political parties, youth, Initiatives in Africa Metropolitan - Operations Blufhill, Harare com & judykamutepfa@ stability and security in Africa engaging all stakeholders Matabeleland South, women, chiefs, headsmen, - CPIA Director gmail.com through confict prevention, from grassroots to high Mashonaland Central, churches, MPs, Judiciary, resolution and management stakeholders as well as national Mashonaland East, Diplomats, NGO’s, Traditional reconciliation Manicaland leaders Centre for Youth Mashonaland Oct-12 Zimbabwe Youth Mudimu G.T 1 John White Crescent [email protected] 263775030643 / Training and Advocacy. Mashonaland East - Youth between the age of 18- Empowerment East Council Chairman Winston Park, 263774431245 Marondera, Chikomba, 35 , local authorities, fnancial Marondera Wedza, Mrewa, Mutoko, institutions, government Mudzi, Goromonzi and departments, industries and Manyame SMEs

Chikukwa Manicaland Jan-96 CBO Trust Chester Chenjerai Private Bag 2029, [email protected] 263773231572 www.chikukwa. Peacebuilding and sustainable By conducting training Chimanimani District ward Leaders, educators, Ecological Land Use Organisation Chituwu- Director Chimanimani org.zw agriculture workshops with local 10. community members, school Community Trust - leadership, community training leavers, school children, CELUCT OVCs and other likeminded organisations/ institutions. Children Solutions Bulawayo Jun-08 Trust MA MR. Mpumelelo Nketa Housing Ofce, [email protected] 263774085546 Children and youth participation, Youth mobilisation Nketa Constituency - Children, orphans, child Centre Trust 151/2007 Ncube - Executive Room 9, Bulawayo advocacy, HIV/AIDS, information through sport, information Bulawayo headed households, youth: Director dissemination dissemination, workshops for unemployed, in-school and young people in school, social out of school media for transformation - Facebook, twitter Chitungwiza Harare Jan-06 Trust Mrs Ellen 4678 Mukwereza Way 263712758893 To teach chiefs and village We teach the community Chitungwiza Urban Chiefs, headmen, local Community Peace Metropolitan Rangarira Unit C, Chitungwiza heads confict management confict management and authorities, health ofcers Building Partnership and transformation, mediate transformation councillors, district of Zimbabwe Trust conficting parties in the administration, residents community, make space for association, headmaster, dialogue with stakeholders in police lawyer, advisors and Chitungwiza and in rural areas the community

Chivi Residents Masvingo Mar-12 Voluntary Zivurawa Lot 391 Box 35 Chivi [email protected] 263777104280 Improved service delivery Making the local authorities Chivi Growth point and Chivi residents, business and Rate Payers Organisation Growth Point, Chivi for rate payers, government accountable for service business service centres. community and capital Association - CRRA accountability and advocacy delivery, budget process and projects done by the council. and information sharing with development of projects. residents.

118 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

119 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

Christian Legal Bulawayo Jun-01 Registered with Gerald Matiba - Suite 5, Winchester [email protected] 263774908325 Legal assistance/litigation, The organisation has a Bulawayo, Midlands, Children, Youth, Women, Men Society of the Registrar of Executive Director House, Fife Street and confict transformation and programme entitled Act Justly Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe Deeds 4th Avenue, Bulawayo gender justice, human rights Initiative. This action seeks Matabeleland South monitoring, child protection, promote non-violence and budget monitoring enhance popular participation of citizens in transitional justice and legislative processes. Churches in Bulawayo Jun-12 Trust Pride Ndlovu 13 Robert Mugabe, churchesinbulawayo@ 263773526894 Lobby and advocacy, Facilitating workshops on Bulawayo, Matabeleland Traditional leaders, political Bulawayo - Programme Scripture Union gmail.com development, peacebuilding peacebuilding, confict North, Matabeleland South leaders and the grassroots Manager management with traditional, level political leaders and grassroots Churches in Manicaland Rev. Joseph Elim Pentecoastal [email protected] 263772971882 Human rights and confict Capacity building community Manicaland Province Community leaders, Manicaland Waziweyi - Church, 30 Second management and capacity leaders, engaging policy traditional leaders, youth and Coordinator Street, Mutare building makers and political parties. church leaders. City of Mutare Manicaland Aurther Chinaka- Mofart Ofces, 2632060823 Community development Mutare Urban Residents, investors Housing and Director Chimanimani Road Community Services Civic Education Harare Jun-94 Trust Wellington 5 Wingate Road, [email protected] +263 4 481 777-9, Civic education, peacebuilding, The peacebuilding programme The whole of Zimbabwe but All citizens especially Network Trust – Mbofana - Highlands Harare +263 777 045 630 leadership development, voter helps people that are divided specifcally Bulawayo, Harare, grassroots people Civnet Executive Director education by confict to reach out Mashonaland Central, to each other and mend Mashonaland West and broken relationships through Midlands provinces where facilitated dialogues; inclusive there are physical ofces development initiatives in the community; and promotion of human rights and laws

Community Peace- Harare Jan-08 Trust Martin Matamba / Stodart Gymhall, [email protected]; 263774611315 Confict management and We promote dialogue, Southern District - Mbare Men, women and the youth Building Partnership Metropolitan Tapera Jamanda Pazarangu Road, martinmatamba@yahoo. peacebuilding mediation and provide of Zimbabwe - CPPZ, Mbare, Harare com trainings Mbare Chapter Community Masvingo Jan-08 Trust Zivanai Muzorodzi cotradresearch@gmail. 263773120615 To prevent political violence in Through engaging youth Masvingo Province Youth in general, particularly Tolerance - Information and com communities and promotion of in various activities like victims of political violence Reconciliation and Research Ofcer tolerance and reconciliation to peace tournaments and and the perpetrators. Development - post-confict communities. establishment of peace youth COTRAD groups.

Community Masvingo Jan-98 Community Entrance 3164/42 Muchecheni [email protected] 263773298452 Primary Health Care Through health literacy Masvingo Urban and Chiredzi Youth, women, men, Working Group On Based Takaidza - District Street, Hillside programmes Urban community leaders and Health Organization Chairperson Masvingo health workers Consumer Council Masvingo Feb-45 Quasi Ndumiso 136 Robertson Street, [email protected] 26339264748 www.ccz.org.zw Mediating between consumers of Zimbabwe Government Mgushimi - Masvingo and service providers Regional Ofcer Department Mashonaland Jan-10 Academic Makwerere David- Bindura University of makwerere@webmail. +263772596562 or Theoretical foundation in Through research and Local, National and Grassroots structures, Of Peace and Central Institution Lecturer Science Education, co.za or dmakwerere@ +263775854222 peacebuilding, frameworks in publications, facilitation at International government ministries, CSOs Governance Bag 1020 Bindura buse.ac.zw peacebuilding, research and workshops. Production of Bindura Haulage information dissemination, training manuals for local Ofces governance and public councils participation

Dzimbahwe Poets Masvingo Jan-11 Arts Group, Tatenda Chinoda - 244/5 Simon [email protected] 263772966075 Training in performing arts and Providing edutainment through Masvingo Province Service providers. Peace National Arts Group Director Mazorodze Avenue, team building the Catholic Commission for loving communities. Youth Council of Masvingo Justice and Peace, ZimRights, in and out of school. Policy Zimbabwe MISA, NANGO and ZCTU makers.

Educators Manicaland Sep-06 Trust Robert Mandeya First Mutual Building mandeyarobert@yahoo. 263772466925 Human rights and peace Establishing peace clubs in Makoni, Chimanimani, Teachers and school children Association for Suite Number 106, com education in schools schools Chipinge and Mutasa districts Human Rights - Hebert Chitepo Street, of Manicaland EAHR Mutare

120 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

121 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

Emmaus Bulawayo Feb-12 cf/10303/2005 Mr. J. Zvaita 14 Calvert Road, [email protected] 263733893729 Providing alternative media to By encouraging communities Bulawayo in its 29 wards and Young and old, women and International Bradfeld, Bulawayo the community of Bulawayo to dialogue, air their views and its surrounding areas, parts of men, children, the disabled, and its surroundings through know their rights. This is done Lupane, Tsholotsho, Plumtree, people infected and afected community radio through focus group meetings, Nkayi and Kezi with AIDS and all citizens of live broadcast meetings, news Zimbabwe social media and through our one hour broadcast in ZICORA Environmental Masvingo Feb-10 Trust Never Mujere - 4934 Jenjedza street [email protected] 263773253035 Promotion of sustainable Through leadership trainings in Bikita District, Ward 15 Those in degraded areas and Management Trust Director Rujeko B Masvingo environmental management the villages at risk of climate change. Family Aids Caring Masvingo Jan-92 W/L089 Ropafadzo Stand Number 3246, [email protected] 263773440842 Prevention, mitigation, care and Advocate for children rights and Masvingo Province Single women, widows, Trust - FACT Magwaza Light Industries, support programmes for people living with HIV PWLHIV, and youth in or out Chiredzi of school. Farm Community Mashonaland Apr-99 PVO G. Magarambe GA William, Gale [email protected] +263 67 http://www.fctz. To empower people in Assisting community members Manicaland, Mashonaland School children, young Trust of Zimbabwe West Avenue, Malborough, org.zw/ the farming community in resolving diferences within East and Mashonaland women and young men - FCTZ Harare in education, health and their area Central agricultural activities Gutu Youth Forum Masvingo Oct-10 NA 010/1010 Gullarm Mkumba Ofce Number 10 Gutu gmkumba2@cooltoad. 263772944942 Total participation of youth in Through youth rehabilitation Masvingo Province Youth between the age of 15- Rural District Council com democratic processes, peace and activities such as income 35 years, traditional leaders good governance generating projects, community and political parties. sporting activities and training workshops. Gweru Agenda Midlands Jan-00 Trust Polite - Ofce No.3, 3rd Street, [email protected] 263713016331 Civic education, training and Organising forums and Midlands Province Youth, women organisations Programmes Old Post Ofce, Gweru creating platforms where people meetings for people from and individuals from the Ofcer from diferent communities diferent groups of diferent community. discuss current topical issues ideologies and so bringing them together for debates. Habakkuk Trust Bulawayo, Aug-00 Trust Dumisani Nkomo 2A Oak Suburbs, habakkuktrust@gmail. +263779 617 926 To infuence biblical Training communities on Gwanda, Plumtree, Matobo, Local leaders, communities, Matabeleland Bulawayo com transformation of communities confict management, Bulawayo, Tsholotsho action teams, ministers North and through research, capacity peacebuilding Matabeleland building, advocacy and South information dissemination Heal Africa Trust Midlands Jul-12 Trust-MA 608/10 Brian Dube - 884 Mkoba 13, Gweru [email protected] 263773078897 Restitution, reconciliation, Training of Councillors who will Gweru Urban People who have been - HAT Director healing, training of facilitators cascade the knowledge to those afected by confict of for confict management traumatised victims from all all magnitude through forms of violence. working with leaders of political parties like district leadership, councillors and community leaders as peace ambassadors. Helpline Zimbabwe Harare Jun-08 Trust Renias Toreva 37 Low Close, Emerald [email protected] +263 4302301, www.helplinezim. Peacebuilding through Engaging the stakeholders in Epworth, Shamva, Perpetrators of political Metropolitan, - Programme Hill, Harare +263774163267 org.zw psychological support, meetings, promoting peace, Mberengwa violence, human rights abuse Midlands, Manager livelihoods, emergency response peacebuilding, counselling e.g. gender and domestic Mashonaland and community rehabilitation services violence. Victim of political, Central gender, domestic violence, social welfare Hwange District Matabeleland Jan-07 Registered Michael Ndiweni 5613 Mkhosana, mikejnrsind82@gmail. 263773268187 We are involved in promoting Peacebuilding, we carry out Hwange Urban, Hwange Youth between the ages of Youth Development North Ministry of Youth Victoria Falls com youth participation in decision peacebuilding trainings for Rural and Victoria Falls 18-35 years from various Coalition and Development making process. We train youth youth and fostering the concept youth Community Based on leadership, local governance, of peace ambassadors in Organizations operating in human rights and lobbying and communities the district advocacy Hwange Human Matabeleland Feb-08 Trust Fidelis Chima- M45 Makwika, hwangehumanrightsyf@ 263773565946 Human rights education Public meetings, focus group Hwange Urban and Rural Youth, Local Authority and Rights Youth Forum North chairperson Hwange gmail.com discussions, peacebuilding District ZimRights workshops Hwange Urban Arts Matabeleland Jun-00 Community Marlvern Daka - H19 Lusumbani, [email protected] 263773256951 To provide edutainment to the Currently work with Amnesty Hwange District Youth, women, girls, and the Association - HUAA North Arts Based Chairperson Hwange communities. To lobby and Zimbabwe to foster changes community in general Organisation advocate for social changes in in our communities and as a society through Arts facilitator Ibhetshu Likazulu Bulawayo Aug-05 Pressure group Zibusiso Maduma/ 303 Nkulumane, mbusofuzwayo@gmail. 263772762381 To promote healing within the We carry out workshops Matabeleland and Midlands Youth and the elderly Mbuso Fuzwayo Bulawayo com people of Matabeleland to educate the people of Matabeleland of the hardships they face Institute For Mashonaland Jun-09 Trust Chinzete Gillian - 5269 Chiwaridzo, youngwomeninstitute@ 263773152630 Information dissemination and Capacity building. Mashonaland Central. Women in the age of 16 to 35 Young Women Central Programs Ofcer Bindura gmail.com gender advocacy. from Bindura urban and rural Development districts and households of the participating members from the community.

122 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

123 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

Intscha.com Bulawayo May-12 Trust Godwin Phiri - 706 Fidelity Life Centre, [email protected] 263774378425 www.intscha.org We are primarily a youth Access to natural resources Bulawayo, Matabeleland Youth in disadvantaged Director Corner 11th Avenue/ development organisation are at the very core of confict North, Matabeleland South circumstances. We also Fife Street, Bulawayo concerned with ensuring issues. We are helping the promote youth - adult that young people are active community to develop partnerships hence the ability participants in community programmes and projects that to reach out to a broader development help to address the community community challenges Joint Harare Feb-12 Patience Chiradza 128 King George Road, [email protected] 2634334877 www.jomic.co.zw Peacebuilding and encouraging We are meeting with the 3 Harare, Bulawayo, Political parties, traditional Monitoring and Metropolitan - National Avondale, Harare dialogue amongst political political parties signatory to the Midlands, Masvingo, healers, national healers, Implementation Coordinator parties that are signatory to the GPA at national, provincial and Manicaland, Matabeleland communities, civic society Committee - JOMIC GPA. district levels to help minimise North, Matabeleland organisations polarisation amongst them. South, Mashonaland East, Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central Jointed Hands Midlands and Nov-05 Trust Donald Tobaiwa- Eastern Back of [email protected] 26354225601/2/3 www.jointedhands. Advocacy for positive policies Through social behaviour Midlands, Mashonaland west Churches and communities Welfare Matabeleland Director Gweru Theatre, Gweru org in cultures, beliefs and change and communication. and Matabeleland South through church and Organisation South Gardens practices within churches and community working groups. communities to reduce or eliminate diseases including HIV and AIDS and also the elimination of infant deaths Joshua Foundation Harare Nov-11 Trust Munyaradzi Trinity Methodist [email protected] 263772998591 Life skills training, volunteer We impart life skills to Epworth, Mufakose Orphans and other vulnerable Zimbabwe - JFZ Metropolitan Takawira - Director Church, Cnr 3rd and training, young leaders and orphaned and vulnerable children Central Avenue, entrepreneurial training children through arts, sports Harare teams, building interests and lessons. Kariba Youth Trust Mashonaland Mar-97 Trust D Kaocha, S Cofee P. O. BOX 94, Kariba cofeesamson01@gmail. +263772356113, To promote youth empowerment Social youth conficts Kariba Urban, Wards 1-9 Youth in school and out of West com +263773743143 and information sharing school Kulani trust Matabeleland Apr-12 Trust Ntandoyenkosi 1269 ZBS, Plumtree [email protected] / 263774571444 Youth leadership and We carry out interface sessions Plumtree urban, Mangwe South Dumani - Director dumani.ntandoyenkosi@ development. Our thrust is to with young people and rural, Bulilima rural in gmail.com build the capacity of young capacitate them on confict Matabeleland South people so that they efectively resolution, facilitate dialogue contribute in the socio-economic in interrogating our history and political development of and attempt to project their their communities role in confict transformation initiatives into the future Legal Resources Manicaland Jan-84 NGO Memory Suite 8, 2nd Floor, [email protected] 2632065263 www.lrf.org Provision of free legal services Workshops and outreaches Manicaland Province Community leaders, Foundation - LRF Mandingwa Old Mutual Building to indigent members of in the province with Rooftop community benefciaries, Mutare society and legal education Promotions performing plays intermediaries to the community. Human on national healing and rights, confict management, confict reduction methods. peacebuilding We are training village heads, headmen and chiefs in Mutasa and Mutare Districts on mitigating community level confict in Zimbabwe Living Hope Trust Manicaland Nov-09 In process Rev Nhamo 320 Bezel Bridge, moyanaatlivinghope@ 263778050382 HIV and AIDS, orphans and Creating a platform and Mutare Rural (3 wards) Young Christians and Moyana Mutare gmail.com vulnerable children and mobilising young Christians community leaders peacebuilding to engage in nonviolence and issues of peace and justice Lupane Youth for Matabeleland Feb-08 Trust Patience Malaba- 208 Lupane [email protected] 263775942731 www.lupyouth.org Youth empowerment through Peace ambassadors that are Gwampa, Matshima, Youth aged between 15-35 Development North Programme Ofcer community skills training that trained in diferent Wards Lupanda, Jotsholo, Lupaka, years is from leadership training, plan the role of standing up Dandanda peace ambassador training to for peace in communities. We entrepreneurship skills training encourage the use of sports for confict transformation as it creates platforms for exchange of ideas Lutheran Midlands Jan-00 Registered N. Mabuwa 508 Milton Road, msshumbam2@gmail. 263773632866 www.lds.org Development issues and The organisation is partnered Mberengwa, Zvishavane and Members of the Lutheran Development Zvishavane com improving the welfare of with many organisations in Gokwe Districts church, any person from the Service communities trying to curb confict especially mentioned districts in rural areas. Makonde Focus Mashonaland Jan-08 Media Vinnet Nyakudya - 27 Rwenya Rimuka 263773357883 To promote awareness Makonde District Everyone MISA Zimbabwe West Secretary Township, Kadoma Marvel Acts Youth Mashonaland Dec-03 Trust, Association Mavura Abel- 294 B New [email protected] 263772602081 www.mayozim. Youth development, HIV/AIDS, In our peacebuilding projects, Mutoko (15 Wards); Mudzi (2 Youth from the age of 10-35, Organisation of East and Arts Director Government Stands, blogspot.com Peacebuilding, Theatre and peace ambassadors training, Wards), and 8 Wards Murewa the community at large Zimbabwe - MAYO organisation Mutoko Centre sports peace committees project, especially on awareness Zim youth volunteers programme activities, local stakeholders and the leadership of the communities

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125 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

Masakhaneni Bulawayo Aug-08 Trust Dumisani Mpofu No. 10 Derby Road, masakhaneni.projects. 263772353358 www.masakhaneni. Confict transformation and Through community based Matabeleland South, Traditional leaders, Projects Trust Hillside, Bulawayo [email protected] org peacebuilding facilitations and local peace Matabeleland North, political activists, leaders of communities Midlands development structures and vulnerable groups especially women and children Masvingo Agenda Masvingo Jan-08 Registered Tirivaviri B. - 515 Greenfeld Street, [email protected] 263772816162 Advocacy Masvingo Province All age groups Chairperson Masvingo

Masvingo Masvingo May-04 Trust Raviro Mutonga - 39/41 Hellet Street, macosetorganisation@ 263773278506 Skills development, orphans and We advocate for child Bikita District wards 4, 5, 6, Children, youth, women and Community Skills Co-ordinator Masvingo gmail.com vulnerable children support and protection and discourage 9, 13 traditional leaders Empowerment women, youth empowerment. youth involvement in political issues. Masvingo Confict Masvingo Oct-08 In process Gonye Ephraim - 6 Rekayi Tangwena ephraimgonye@yahoo. 263773913445 Developing society through Engaging society in mediation Masvingo Province Communities, families and Management Vice Chairperson Street, Masvingo com constructive, sustainable and and dialogue activities. schools Association - MCMA peaceful confict resolution. Masvingo United Masvingo Aug-04 Trust Anoziva Muguti 515 Greenfeld, City murramasvingo@gmail. 263774755739 Governance, accountability and Initiating dialogue between Masvingo Urban Residents of Masvingo Urban Residents and - Programmes Centre, Masvingo com building local democracy the Local Authority and the Ratepayers Coordinator residents. Association - MURRA Media Institute of Matabeleland Aug-95 Registered Albert Mazhale MISA Advocate [email protected] 263772982112 www.misa.org To advocate for the freeing of the Through reporting confict, its Matabeleland South Radio listeners - young and Southern Africa - South Committee, Gwanda media, that is opening up of the causes and remedies old, Readers who can access Matabeleland South airwaves and licensing of more our website newspapers Mhangura Theatre Mashonaland Aug-12 Mofat Yorani T6 Damba Village [email protected] 263775987493 To bring peace and unity Doma Area Ward 11 Youth groups, businessmen Time West Mhangura or 263 West and church leaders street Chinhoyi. Midlands Confict Midlands Aug-12 PVO Ngoni G Nyanhete- St. Peters Catholic [email protected] 263777333520 Confict management Confict is a continuous process Midlands Province The less privileged and any Management Regional Church, Mkoba 19, as a result we are always in other members of society Association -MCMA chairperson Gweru the feld Mission to Live Trust Bulawayo Dec-03 Trust Nkululeko Tshuma 57 Josiah Tongogara, [email protected] 263772857723 The organisation is a youth Through implementing Matabeleland South and Youth, political parties, - Mitolt - Director Bulawayo focused advocacy organisation. peacebuilding initiatives Bulawayo women, children, government We implement HIV/AIDS, which include peace education structures, traditional livelihoods and human rights through sports, dialogue leadership programmes meetings

Mkoba South Midlands Jan-12 Under CCMT Mai Chido M 2191 Mkoba 6, Gweru [email protected] 263772698386 To ensure that there is dialogue We facilitate dialogue about Mkoba south villages 6, 7, 4, Community, responsible Confict Registration when confict arises in a availability of water in Mkoba 5, 3, 2, 1, 10, 11, 9 authorities Management community despite diferent South between the residents political afliations and city of Gweru.

Mudzi Youth Mashonaland Nov-12 Zimbabwe Youth Chikoti Josphat Kotwa General [email protected] 26377321436 Association East Council Lobbing and Hospital, Mutoko Advocacy Ofcer Murewa Young Mashonaland Jan-10 Youth Association Machipisa Stand 152, Murewa machipisangonidzashe@ 263776380900 To empower young people in We work hand in hand Land, Mining and Tourist Young people, youth with Entreprenuers East Isaac Ngoni - Low Density Area yahoo.com the community with life skills, with other associations Attractions disabilities and the local Association Chairperson business knowledge and peace. like MAYO, Hwedza Young authorities Entrepreneurs Association and Local Authorities. As well as environmental agencies. Musasa Midlands Jan-88 PVO Netty Musanhu- Josiah Tongogara, [email protected] www.musasa.org Advocacy, gender based violence, Training on peacebuilding Zvishavane Women and community Director Gweru peacebuilding and confict members management Musasa Harare Jan-88 PVO Netty Musanhu 64 Selous Avenue [email protected] 2634794983 Reducing Gender Based Violence Preventing GBV. Capacitating Harare Urban, Buhera, Women, girls and survivors of Metropolitan Cnr 7th/ Selous Ave, (GBV) amongst women in and strengthening women’s Bulawayo Urban and Rural, GBV in all its forms Harare Zimbabwe. Facilitation of access preparedness on how to deal Gweru and Chiredzi to health, law enforcement and with confict. Responding to justice services and strengthen violence by providing direct womens ability to deal with GBV. services such as counselling, temporary shelter and personal empowerment to survivors. Musoromuchena Mashonaland Dec-04 PVO Hluphekile Suite 3 First foor projectskills4life@yahoo. 263773291783 Empowerment of youth in and Through sport programmes Makonde District Wards 8 Youth in and out of school Skills For Life West Mujuruki - Director Dilmitis Building, com out of school in vocational, life and sexual & reproductive and 10 up to 18 years, secondary Chinhoyi and entrepreneurial skills health programs benefciaries, young mothers and women in rural areas

126 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

127 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

Mutare Ministers Manicaland Jan-96 n/a Charles Dangare 34 Fourth Street, 263777772637 Identify challenges that are Through peace prayer rallies The Manicaland Province in Pastors, Church leaders Fraternal Mutare afecting our church members and conventions bridging partnership with churches in and every Zimbabwean in and communities and address across social, economic and Manicaland Manicaland them in a Godly way. Assist with political divides necessary resources needed Nambiya Matabeleland Jan-08 Registered Vincent Nyoni F35/36 Lundwelu nambyavince@yahoo. +2632812173, www.nambya.org Promoting the Nambya culture Bringing in people from Matabeleland North Youth, Adults, the local Development North Village, PO BOX 112, co.uk; vincenambya@ +263779549961 through empowering the diferent cultural backgrounds authorities and the Organisation Trust Hwange gmail.com youth and the community for and educating them through community - NDOT development workshops and meetings for community development National Harare Jan-62 PVO C. Zinhumwe 5 Meridieth Ave, [email protected] 2634708761 Coordination Through training workshops The whole of Zimbabwe Everyone Association of Metropolitan Eastlea Harare Non-Governmental Organisations - NANGO National Midlands Feb-62 PVO Vimbai Nhutsve 1028 Leeds Road, Light nangomidlands@gmail. 26354230200 www.nango.org.zw Capacity building, operating Representing and advocating Midlands Province Member organisations, local Association of - Regional Industrial Site, Gweru com environment and self-regulation, member organisations in their authorities and policy makers Non-Governmental Coordinator communication and networking bid to fulfl their objectives Organizations - NANGO Midlands National Mashonaland Jan-97 Pressure Group Nyamasoka M 7718 Two Tree Hill, lastnyamasoka@yahoo. 263733473465 Constitution-making and reform Nationwide Community, young adults Constitutional West Mhangura com process Assembly - NCA National Council of Harare Jan-75 Registered Lilian Gwanyanya - gwanyanyalilian@gmail. 263733813236 ncdzimemwes.co.zw Empowering people with Through disseminating Harare and areas outside All people living with Disabled Persons of Metropolitan Chairperson com disabilities in all spheres information to do with rights Harare disabilities e.g. the visually Zimbabwe of life that include social, issues and peace resolutions. impaired, physically economic and political. To help challenged, albinos and the communities understand their deaf rights and claim them National Council Midlands Jan-85 NGO Precious 915 Mkoba 4, Gweru ladypreshy73@gmail. 263776029361 Give a platform for people to We hire people with expertise Gweru Urban and peri-urban The community, community of the Disabled Mutumwa-vice com dialogue while we educate them to educate the disadvantaged leaders and all people who Persons of chairperson to desist from violence groups. deal with people living with Zimbabwe - NCDPZ disabilities National Movement Harare Aug-90 Catholic Guild Tafadzwa Dzomba 50 Mt Pleasant Drive, nmcs_zimbabwe@yahoo. 2634744506 www.imcszimbabwe. Leadership development, social Mainstreamed through the Harare, Masvingo, Bulawayo, Students in the tertiary sector, of Catholic Students Metropolitan - Programme Harare co.uk com justice and peace building, leadership programmes Mutare, Chinhoyi, Gweru, catholic students, young - NMCS Ofcer gender development and HIV Kwekwe, Bindura people and AIDS National Volcano of Midlands Nov-08 Registered Mudavanhu Gweru Theatre [email protected] 263773458777 www.navho.com Reducing HIV and AIDS In a strong positive way in Gweru Youth aged between 15-35 Hope - NAVHO Paddington - confict transformation years and other HIV/AIDS Member organisation National Youth Matabeleland Jan-04 Trust Bhekumisa Moyo 263773269824 To empower youth through Matabeleland North, Development Trust North -Programme education, life skills and Matabeleland South - NYDT Manager responsibility Nkabazwe Midlands Jan-03 Trust Precious 915 Mkoba 4 Gweru 263776029361 We deal with all issues that afect Confict occurs everywhere so Gweru Urban area and peri- Community and NGOs. Community Radio Mutumwa-Vice the community at large as part we partner with organisations urban Initiative - NBCRI Chairperson of our programming - educating that are experts in the area people and doing material related to peacebuilding Nomadic Tribe Mashonaland Feb-09 Universitas Musa Wilson - Co- 250 Highfelds Harare [email protected] 263775199463 Use of diferent art forms such Doing workshops targeting Mudzi and Harare Youth who appreciate art as a East Ordinator as poetry, grafti art and flmed diferent age groups who are form of expressing themselves documentaries to express driven by the same purpose to situations of oppressed people strengthen their vision using efective techniques practically proven to produce results. Nyahunure Mashonaland Sep-06 Trust Francis Pwandiwa 366 Mutoko Rural fpawandiwa71@gmail. 263773518846 Gender, peace building, women gender relationship Muoko district youth and women also Community Trust East - Programme District Council com empowerment in HIV/AIDS and transformation, confict partially men coordinator Premises,Mutoko sexual reproductive health transformation Centre Pacesetters Youth Harare Sep-09 Trust Tsitsi Chanza - 38 Harland Court, 116 263775779179 Peacebuilding, leadership and Through sports, transformation Harare -Mbare, Mashonaland Young people, school leavers Network Metropolitan Coordinator Fife Avenue, Harare confict transformation, human work as well as peacebuilding. West-Mhondoro, Dzumbunu and drop outs rights defending and livelihoods We provide training in schools and Mubaira projects of higher education with the school students leaders Padare Men’s Forum Harare Jan-95 Trust Kelvin Hazangwi- 6 Winchester [email protected] 263773394586 www.padare.org. Gender, violence against women We work with community Midlands, Manicaland All men in Zimbabwe who on Gender Metropolitan Director, Paul Road,Belvedere,Harare co.zw and children chapters that put in place and Matabeleland North, volunteer to participate Juru-Regional chapters that outlaw violence Matabeleland South and in gender work. The Coordinator and promote peace at both Mashonaland Central and benefciaries are women and domestic and community level Mashonaland West children.

128 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

129 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

Partnership for Manicaland Nov-10 Trust C Nyamanhindi - First Mutual Building [email protected] 263774302818 www.pdtrust.org Promoting sustainable peace We conduct peace education, We cover some selected Youth, women, disabled and Development Programme Ofcer 3rd Floor,Suite 311, in communities through peace educating and imparting district of Manicaland traditional leaders Initiative Trust Mutare building initiatives, sport, knowledge in communities on Province strengthening traditional ways of analysing, managing, methods and livelihood oriented resolving and transforming intervention. conficts. Peace-Building Manicaland Sep-06 Non Proft Alexius Manyanda 67 Hebert Chitepo [email protected] 2632068538 www.pacdef. Peacebuilding human Through Lobbying and Mutare, Mutasa and Buhera Community civil society and Capacity making Street,1st Floor blogspot.com rights, democracy and good Advocacy, Civic Education and Districts sector groups such as Development Organisation MA Stanbic House, Mutare governance community local governance traditional leaders, political Foundation - 683/2006 structures parties, churches, youth, PACDEF women’s groups, war veterans, disabled, HIV infected and afected. Pentecostal Mashonaland Jan-48 Faith Based Rev. T. Munaki 5702 White City, pastormunaki@gmail. 263772634373 Social transformation Through holding of marriage National coverage as we are Orphans and Other Assemblies of West Organisation - PAOZ Social Chinhoyi com of communities through enrichment seminars, men’s represented in all 10 provinces Vulnerable Children, Married Zimbabwe - PAOZ Concerns National education, health promotion, soccer team, healthy delivery of Zimbabwe couples, widows, small to Director gender mainstreaming, systems, provision of education, medium business owners and OVCs, socio-political issues, relief mitigation eforts and drought-prone communities. economic empowerment and support for small to medium humanitarian support business owners. Plumtree Matabeleland Jun-08 Trust T. Sithole - 616 Ezimnyama Road, [email protected] 263777407098 Community media Community dialogue, Bulima, Mangwe, Plumtree Youth organisations, women Development Trust South Executive Director Plumtree community conversations, based organisations, focus group discussions, Plumtree Residents community hall meetings Association Plumtree Pastors Matabeleland Jan-12 Pastor Luke Dube Shop 2, Main Street, [email protected] 263772981326 Our main focus is religion, we We have prayer meetings, We cover the whole of Everyone from young and old Fraternal South P.O BOX 91, Plumtree provide guidance to everyone teaching, preaching to people Plumtree because we work willing to liaise with us with problems and confict, we with pastors all over town also ofer counselling for them Plumtree Residents Matabeleland Jan-10 Mhlupheki Dube 2164 George Silundika, [email protected] 263772851275 Advocacy and lobbying against Addressing issues which arise Bulilima and Mangwe Community members in And Development South Plumtree issues concerning residents of between Councillors and districts general Association - PRADA Plumtree residents Practical Mashonaland Feb-10 Musarurwa Hillary 32 Airdre Eastlea, [email protected] 263772128345 To improve standards of living, Mhondoro, Mubaira Wards 4, Youth between the age of 15 Empowerment and West Harare employment, proper water and 27 and 3 to 35 years Networking Youth sanitation facilities Association - PENYA Trust Public Information Matabeleland Jan-07 Registered National PIRF Gwanda Chapter [email protected] 263776085879 Information sharing and Through awareness meetings Gwanda town, local Local leadership, councillors, Rights Forum - PIRF South Coordinator dissemination and workshops in rural areas surrounding rural areas, headmen, women and youth and towns mining community Public Information Masvingo Jan-09 registered Ndongwe T. 182 Duma Residential [email protected] 263772248135 Ensuring communities are Engaging the general public Nyika, Chikuku,Mashoko, Youth, chiefs, councillors, Rights Forum - PIRF Area Nyika empowered through information from diferent socio-political Bikita police ofcers, teachers and Bikita provisions and also ensuring spheres in information forum the general public. access to information to workshops and discussions communities and contact study and disseminating information circles were we discuss. from MMPZ to everyone irrespective of political afliation. Radio Dialogue Bulawayo Mar-01 Current Mrs Debra 902 Pioneer House, radio@radiodialogue. 2639881020 www.radiodialogue. Poverty eradication and Community confdence Matabeleland South All stakeholders i.e Trust Mabunda - 8th Avenue/Fife Street, co.zw com sustainable development, building - we involve (Gwanda & Umzingwane), communities, political parties Executive Director Bulawayo community confdence building community in this programme Matabeleland North and other stakeholders because they are experts in (Hwange), Bulawayo resolving their issues and our role as an organisation is to facilitate Research and Harare Jan-06 Universitas Mrs. Kudakwashe 8 Sir Herbert Taylor [email protected] +263 4 741511 Research and advocacy on Only indirectly through National Women teachers for Advocacy Unit Metropolitan Chitsike - Director Dve, Lincoln Green, various political violence research in the violence and benefciaries and targets are Harare (women, teachers, children) as advocacy for prevention of political parties, government, well as governance, democracy political violence. regional and civil society in and elections. general Rural Communities Matabeleland Jan-12 Trust Vumani Ndlovu - 405 Lupane [email protected] 263777059895 Talent identifcation, marketing Identifcation of confict Matabeleland North Traditional leaders, youth, Empowerment Trust North Founding Trustee / [email protected] and development. Trainings areas in communities and School Development for women, youth, traditional employ various key strategies Committees, women, civil leaders and development in resolving them. Key servants, local authorities, institutions stakeholders that are relevant political parties in that transformation are identifed Shalom Project Trust Bulawayo May-08 Registered Anglistone Siyanda Suite 706, 7th Floor, [email protected] 263775183243 We deal with peace and confict We do peace training Matabeleland South, All the societal groups both - Director Fidelity Life, Bulawayo resolution. We believe people workshops and capacity Matabeleland North, young and old need to live together despite building Gwanda, Nkayi, Lupane divergent views that people might have

130 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

131 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

Silveira House Mashonaland Dec-64 Trust Fr. G. Munyoro 20 KM Peg Acturus director@silveirahouse. 26342935845 www.silveirahouse. Peacebuilding with a focus on Through training communities All the 10 provinces of local communities (through East Road, Chishawasha org org.zw encouraging non-violent ways of and traditional leaders on Zimbabwe infuencing leadership resolving conficts confict resolution structures) Silveira House Harare Dec-64 Trust Fr. G. Munyoro 20 KM Peg Acturus director@silveirahouse. 26342935845 www.silveirahouse. Peacebuilding with a focus on Through training communities all the 10 provinces of local communities (through Metropolitan Road, Chishawasha org org.zw encouraging non-violent ways of and traditional leaders on Zimbabwe infuencing leadership resolving conficts confict resolution structures) Simuka Africa Youth Harare - Norton Jun-06 ZYC PA003/1207 Ezekiel Zekiya 3974 Ngoni Township, simukaafrica@yahoo. 263774557018 Provision of services, facilities Youth Dialogue Zimbabwe Mashonaland West, Harare Youth 10-35 years Association Mudimu - Director Katanga, Norton com and programmes that enable Project, giving a voice to the young people to realise their full youth potential Student Manicaland Registered Ronnie Nubi Africa University, P. O. [email protected] 263735454322 www.africau.ac.zw Student representation in their Bringing an understanding Africa University The students and the staf Representative Box 1320, Mutare general welfare between students and the Council - Africa administration University Students Christian Harare Feb-62 Registered Douglas Tigere, 69 Samora Machel [email protected] +263 772 589 454 / http://www. To create a peaceful and Through being involved in National Youth Movement of Metropolitan National Avenue, 10th Floor +263 773 011 566 zimbabwescm. transparent society where the confict transformation Zimbabwe Coordinator Bard House Harare co.zw/ young people enjoy equitable workshops. resource allocation and equal opportunities in education, career guidance and employment. Students Christian Harare Feb-62 Registered Douglas Tigere, 69 Samora Machel [email protected] +263 772 589 454 / http://www. To create a peaceful and Through being involved in National Youth Movement of Metropolitan National Avenue, 10th Floor +263 773 011 566 zimbabwescm. transparent society where the confict transformation Zimbabwe Coordinator Bard House Harare co.zw/ young people enjoy equitable workshops. resource allocation and equal opportunities in education, career guidance and employment. Students Solidarity Masvingo Oct-02 Registered D. Madzonga - 19 Tredgold Drive, [email protected] 263772950682 Ofering rapid response to By ofering counselling services Masvingo Province. Students at tertiary level Trust Social Safety Net Belvedere, Harare victimised and arrested students. to victimised students. Ofcer Sustainable Matabeleland Sep-00 Trust Celani Mloyi - Field Stand No. 463 Business 263772462638 Empowering farmers with skills Trainings, workshops Tsholotsho and Lupane Poor farmers who do not Agriculture Trust North Ofcer Centre, Tsholotsho on new ways of farming and have implements to use and keeping of small livestock the elderly TAMACHI Confict Harare Apr-07 N/A Jane Dzangare 3396 Old Tafara, 263772273999 Confict management and We do workshops or awareness Tafara, Mabvuku and Stakeholders - women’s Management Metropolitan Harare transformation programmes Chizhanje groups, less privileged Association children Transparency Harare Jan-96 Trust Mary-Jane Ncube 96 Central Avenue, mary-jane@transparency. 2634793246 www.transparency. Promoting values of Promoting good governance to National All ages from 6-18 years, International Metropolitan Harare org.zw org.zw transparency, accountability and reduce inequalities which cause male and female adults, Zimbabwe integrity in all sectors conficts accountability committees Tree Of Life Mashonaland Jun-04 Trust Claudette Lloyd - Marlborough, Harare [email protected] 263772309192 Our main focus is to conduct By running trauma healing Mashonaland East, Trauma victims & local East and Harare Administrator Trauma Healing workshops in workshops around the country, Manicaland, Harare leadership (all including, men, Metropolitan rural communities particularly the Tree Of Life aims to bring Metropolitan women and youth). where violence was prevalent healing to Zimbabwean in 2008 communities, to reconnect people and help them reclaim a sense of community belonging, which are all pre- requisites to peacebuilding and development. Tsholotsho Matabeleland Jun-11 Association Box 31, Tsholotsho 263773608667 Educating communities on Holding workshops with Tsholotsho Rural Youth and general populace. Development North the need to guard against communities We work closely with Association exploitation, environment Tsholotsho Agenda management Tsuro Trust Manicaland Jan-00 Trust Ezra Mhlanga - Stand 212, Bag 2029, [email protected] 263773023640 Sustainable agriculture and By dealing with communities Chimanimani (21 Wards ) Afliated members Executive Director Chimanimani natural resources management, when conficts arise, by which include vulnerable community based agro- encouraging communities to groups of farmers like HIV processing and marketing, work together in development support groups, orphans, community health on non-partisan basis. disabled persons and other maginalised groups Ubuntu Youth in Matabeleland Jan-12 Trust Mlako Moyo- Ofce 4, Mathaba ubuntudevelop@gmail. 263775238760 www. We work with youth in leadership Through capacity building and Bulilima, Mangwe and Young people from the Development South Programme Complex, Plumtree com ubuntudevelop. building, entrepreneurship and leadership training Plumtree communities in and out of coordinator webs.com social issues afecting them. We school are also in confict resolution UN WOMEN Harare Jan-10 Nicole Pepovic Block 9, Arundel Ofce nicole.pepovic@ www.unwomen.org Promotion of gender equality Capacity development in the Harare Female policy makers and Metropolitan - Gender-Peace Park, North Road, unwomen.org and women’s rights area of gender at policy level decision making society Specialist Harare with security actors actors

132 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

133 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

United Chiredzi Masvingo Apr-12 Not registered Tizirai Josephate C/O Box 196, Chiredzi [email protected] 263773898099 Civil Issues Through engaging the council Chiredzi Urban Residents of Chiredzi Urban Residents and Tashaya - UCHIRRA in billing system, service Ratepayers Chairman delivery and water supply. Association Wedza Youth Mashonaland May-07 Association Arufandika Plot 84 Sherfeld Farm, [email protected] 263773524610 Our main focus is on youth in Through holding meetings with Wedza District (15 Wards) Youth 18-35 and also work Entrepreneurs East District Level Hopemore Wedza business e.g retail, farming, the community with Ministry of Youth Association beekeeping, poultry Development Women Midlands Mar-12 Registration in Dorcas Marumani 30 Lalbagh Avenue, wicozimbabwe@gmail. 263772624295 Women empowerment, maternal Domestic prevention of confict Shurugwi District Women and men of child International process Ridgemont, Gweru com health, legal rights within families. bearing age. Coalition - WICO Women’s Action Masvingo Jan-84 NGO Joyce Mhungu - 3016 Muchecheni joycemhungu@yahoo. 263772776292 To defend women rights through Peacebuilding Masvingo Province Young women at large Group Focal person Street Majange com teaching civic education Masvingo advocacy, legal aid and peacebuilding. Women’s Agenda Matabeleland Jun-10 Association Dube Casisa - No.87, Umguza 263772459244 HIV and AIDS awareness, youth Involvement in trips and Umguza District Youth, women and children Umguza North Coordinator development, political and workshops economical management Women’s Coalition Midlands Sibusisiwe Sanya- 4170 Kite Avenue, 263773594374 Women, peacebuilding We have peace projects in Mberengwa, Gokwe, Women, girls, men and youth of Zimbabwe Vice Secretary Northlea, Gweru the Midlands, Masvingo and Shurugwi, Gweru and Midlands chapter Mashonaland Kwekwe Women’s Coalition Harare Jun-99 Trust Netsai Mushonga 9 Edmonds Belvedere mushonganetsai@gmail. +2634775765, www.wcoz.org Coordinating women’s voices Facilitating women’s Masvingo, Midlands, Women at the local level, of Zimbabwe Metropolitan - National Co- Harare com +263772224735 towards lobbying and advocacy, participation in peace Mashonaland Central, parliamentarians in the ordinator fundraising for membership, building processes at local and Bulawayo and Manicaland above provinces, local information sharing, collective national level, with reference councillors, traditional lobbying and advocacy, to engendering the role of the leaders, community leaders, facilitating capacity building for Organ of National Healing, the police, the judiciary and membership Reconciliation and Integration health sector. (ONHRI). Lobbying and advocating for mitigation of political violence and ensuring that perpetrators of violence receive stifer penalties. Women’s Coalition Masvingo May-99 Trust Mabel Sikhosana - 22711 Munyemba msikhosana05@yahoo. 263774442884 To promote women’s rights Educating women on Masvingo Province Women and traditional of Zimbabwe - Chairperson Street , Rujeko C, co.uk peacebuilding and the leaders Masvingo Chapter Masvingo constitution making process. WCoZ Young Peoples Mashonaland Jan-12 Network Victor PO Box 609, Number nacmashwest@gmail. +263 67 22741/2/3 http://www.nac. AIDS programming and All provinces of the nation, 58 Youth with disabilities, living Network on HIV and West Madzimbamuto 14 Robson Manyika com org.zw/ coordination Districts positively, in government AIDS Street, Chinhoyi sector, business and tertiary institutions Young Voices Harare Jan-98 Trust Tayiona 8-92nd Avenue, youngvoiceszim@gmail. 263772316782 www.youngvoices. Youth Participation We have a project called voices Masvingo, Epworth, Macheke, Youth aged between 15-30 Network - YVN Metropolitan Sanangurai Greencroft, Harare com org.zw from below dealing with Mutoko, Chinhoyi, Hatclife years peacebuilding and we have a Extension social media campaign called love peace love Zimbabwe Young Women Mashonaland Aug-06 Not registered Roselyn Nyemba Radom Court, Cnr Fife/ roselynnyemba@yahoo. 263775311719 Capacity building, gender Chinhoyi Urban, Mutare, Young professional women Leaders Forum West Sixth Avenue, Harare com mainstreaming, advocacy and Harare in leadership positions and lobby against gender based aspiring leaders violence, gender stereotyping Young Women’s Masvingo Jan-12 Unregistered Sybille Charlie Great Zimbabwe charliesybille@yahoo. 263772811647 Informing female students of We are currently identifying the Masvingo Urban Female students aged Forum Chidyamatare - University Box 1235, com their rights as females in and out areas of confict and trying to between 19 - 35 years President Masvingo of campus as well as equipping come up with ways of dealing them with leadership skills. with them. Young Writers Matabeleland Sep-10 Not Registered Morton Joseph - Kabuba Primary mortonjoseph83@yahoo. 263713199380 To promote and foster Through promoting Binga, Hwange, Lupane, Youth from diferent civic Association North Chairperson School, P.Bag 226, com a culture of writing and publications on peace and Victoria Falls, Bubi, Umguza societies such as Hwange Binga reporting amongst the youth in unity in the region Human Rights Forum, Matabeleland North region ZimRights, NYDT Youth Action for Mashonaland Jan-06 Liwanda Peter [email protected] 263772911045 Promoting sustainable dialogue Leadership training and human Mashonaland West, Chinhoyi, Youth below 35 years with a Dialogue Network West as a peace enhancement rights defenders’ network Karoi, Mhangura, Makonde, gender bias, local councillors, Zimbabwe strategy to the youth Chegutu, Kariba church leaders and village heads Youth Alive Manicaland May-00 Under Roman Sr Eunice Quigley- 27-10th Avenue, [email protected] 2632062530 www.youth alive.org Life skills training focusing on The training emphasises Areas in and around Young people between the Zimbabwe Catholic Diocese director Mutare leadership, education for life and teamwork and respect focusing Manicaland Province ages of 7-35, Orphans and of Mutare peer education training as well on relationship building and however fexible to travel to other Vulnerable Children, as requested topics. Of note also development within which other areas on request children living on the street, are awareness campaigns and conficts, conficting interests as people living with albinism commemorations. well as confict resolution are mainstreamed.

134 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

135 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

Youth Alliance Masvingo Oct-09 Trust Tafadzwa Kutya - 20414 Rujeko [email protected] 263773730515 Peacebuilding and confict Rehabilitation of victims of Masvingo District Young people 17-35 Masvingo Chairperson Shopping centre, resolution violence Masvingo Youth and Masvingo Apr-09 National Youth Luckson 12 Tongogara Street, lucksonmukomondera@ 263772897800 To reduce land and Through working with young Bikita, Masvingo Urban, Chivi Christian youth in churches Environment Action Association Mukomondera - Masvingo yahoo.com environmental degradation Christian people in preaching as well as those in farming, Support Network - Coordinator through a coordinated the gospel of peace and love. mining and pottery or wood YEASN rehabilitation and awareness This is done through prayers, curving. approach for green and peaceful counselling and evangelism. Zimbabwe Youth Development Mashonaland Apr-06 Trust Bulelani 370 Macheke [email protected] 263734872235 Youth empowerment through Still working with political Murehwa South Constituency Young people between the and Aids Trust - East Simbarashe advocacy work using art victims and perpetrators age of 16-35 and local leaders YODAT Musokeri including both parties MDC and ZANU-PF in our community Youth for Minority Matabeleland Apr-11 Pending Approval Samson Nxumalo 14 Hospital Road [email protected] 263772855269 www.samson- We promote the rights of Through cultural festivals Hwange, Lupane, Victoria Youth, ethnic minorities, Rights North Hwange nxumalo.blogspot. minorities in policy making, enabling the exhibition of Falls racial minorities, religious com allocation of resources, diferent cultures and this minorities, women , people discrimination. We support the promotes a culture of tolerance. living with HIV/AIDS role of government in promoting We petition stakeholders in the and protecting minorities and establishment of a minority promoting a culture of tolerance rights and policy. We document, amongst minority groups. publish and disseminate information on minority abuses and minority groups. Youth Forum for Masvingo Sep-12 NA 019/0909 Lloyd Mupfudze - Stand number 375, 263773582595 The main focus of our work is Through various youth Masvingo Province The target group are young Restoration of Executive Director Mupandawana too ensure the achievement of rehabilitation activities people between the age of Democracy - FORD Growth Point, Gutu democracy, peace and good such as income generating 15-35. The intermediaries we governance through human projects, community sporting work with are the traditional rights training, lobbying, activities, human rights leaders, opinion leaders advocacy, capacity building and and peacebuilding training and strategic government information dissemination and workshops and peace concerts, departments, political parties sharing advocacy and lobbying. Youth in Farming Mashonaland Feb-09 Private Voluntary Tanaka Mururi ZFU Complex 102 [email protected] 263773050374 Mobilise and encourage youth to Mashonaland West, Youth from district levels to West Organization - National Vice Corner Five/Second participate in farming regardless Mashonaland Central, clusters Chairman Avenue Chinhoyi of political afliation Mashonaland East, Manicaland, Matabeleland Youth in Mining Matabeleland Nov-12 Registration in Nyathi Ubuletsi- Flat 5, Jahunda, youthinmining@gmail. 263713173196 Formalise the work of young We create forums for dialogue Southern Zimbabwe (focus Youthful miners South Process Chairperson Gwanda com miners, advocacy for young area Gwanda as a mining miners with regards to the district) regulatory framework Youth Initiative Midlands Jan-12 Trust Paradzai Rubaya- No. 5, Mkoba, Gweru [email protected] 263772894753 Lobby and advocacy on Through peacebuilding Harare, Bulawayo, Gweru, Young people between the for Democracy in Projects Volunteer governance, research, activities like clean up Mutare, Masvingo, ages of 18 and 35 especially Zimbabwe - YIDEZ peacebuilding activities and campaigns and workshops, Zvishavane, Victoria Falls, young women gender mainstreaming educating youth on the Hwange and the surrounding importance of peace rural areas Youth Initiatives Mashonaland Nov-11 Trust Nyaronga All Souls Mission, P.Bag [email protected] 263773659329 To capacitate and empower Community meetings Chiware ward 16, Nyamanza Young people below the age for Community East Vanwhyk - 501, Mutoko young people to positively, involving youth from diferent B ward 18, Mutoko of 35 Development Trust - Assistant Director actively and democratically backgrounds, so as to avoid YICDT Mutoko participate in community future political conficts governance and development. Youth Nad Matabeleland Oct-11 B Ndlukula - Field 55 Dansquire Building 263772850606 Encourage youth participation, Working with young people to Nkayi South Constituency Youth aged between 17 to North ofcer Ofce 3, Bulawayo community development cultivate the culture of peace (Wards 24 & 25) 35 years and youth empowerment. To and tolerance within their cultivate a culture of peace and communities tolerance through capacity building. Youth Network Bulawayo Aug-07 Trust T.Pokawa-Director. Ofce 3, Dan Square [email protected] +263 772 850606 www.youthnad. Youth empowerment and Working with youth to restore Bulawayo, Nkayi, Zaka, Young people 13-35, For Alternative Simba Baloyi - Building, 55 J. iradsecretariat@gmail. +263772959005 wordpress.com community development, their image and rebuild Chiredzi, Silobela/Zhombe community leaders, Development - Program Ofcer for Tongogara Street, com +263 774 020130 peacebuilding, good local their relations, community traditional leaders Youth NAD Chiredzi Bulawayo governance, youth participation, peacebuilding activities Life Planning Skills Youth of Zimbabwe Masvingo Jun-09 National Youth Morgan Gray 126 Kipford court, [email protected] 263772785461 Human rights advocacy, good Promoting a peaceful electoral Mwenezi, Zaka, Chiredzi Youth of all ages (18-35), for Transparency Council Kulare - National Musekwa Street, governance and rule of law environment through employed, unemployed, and Progress - YZTP research and Hillside Masvingo workshops and rallies. school leavers and students. advocacy ofcer Zimbabwe Aids Masvingo Jan-92 PVO Z. Zendakwaye 7150 Bradburn Road, 26339263190 Protecting and helping people Through lobbying for peace Masvingo Province Mainly youth and other Network - Provincial Masvingo living with HIV/AIDS among member groups in our groups afected by HIV/AIDS. Coordinator network.

136 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

137 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

Zimbabwe Masvingo Feb-90 PVO Timothy No. 1 Hellet Street, [email protected], +26339-263931, Advocacy for the rights of We involve families and Zimbabwe in general and Persons with disabilities, Association Mudarikwa - Masvingo timmudarikwa@gmail. +263772401191 persons with disabilities and communities in advocacy. Chivi and Zaka Districts communities, local of the Visually Executive Director com economic empowerment for the with specifc Programme authorities and Government. Handicapped visually impaired members of the implementation. (ZAVH) organisation. Zimbabwe Masvingo Feb-04 Trust Lucia Masekesa ZCTU Ofce, Box 596 [email protected] 2634794742 www.zciea.org Training young unemployed We educate and also attend Chiredzi, Triangle, Mashava, Women, men and youth. Chamber of - Territorial Masvingo people for to be self reliant workshops called by CCMT in Chatsworth, Ngundu, Intermediaries are the mayor, Informal Economy Chairperson our area Mhanda and Masvingo councillors, MURRA and Association - ZCIEA Urban NANGO as the umbrella board of the civic society Zimbabwe Bulawayo Jun-05 VSO with Lewis Jones 216 Lutheran House [email protected] 263774313840 www.zcieamattrust. Advocacy and training of Training informal workers in Bulawayo and Matabeleland Informal workers, widows, Chamber of government of Lob Street, Mall, co.zw marginalised societies, currently appropriate confict resolution as whole orphans, disabled and Informal Economy Zimbabwe Bulawayo working with informal workers disciplines, their rights, disadvantaged Associations - ZCIEA displaced and disenfranchised lobbying city, government and Trust by the 2005 “operation restore other authorities on the plight order” of marginalisation, creating a conducive environment for dialogue between authorities and informal workers Zimbabwe Civic Masvingo Jan-00 Trust Gilbert Sibanda - 2 Hofmeyer Street, [email protected] 263772874172 Peacebuilding and civic Currently we involve all the Chiredzi and Gutu districts Age groups but at times Education Trust - Regional Ofcer Masvingo education - focusing mainly with stakeholders in the areas of hold programmes targeting ZIMCET grassroots on issues of violence operation so that we help them specifc groups like the youth, and confict management, to identify common ground in women, physically challenged resolution and transformation trying to solve the confict people since conficts afect them diferently Zimbabwe Civic Mashonaland Jan-00 Trust Mufaro Lust 217 Samora Machel [email protected] 263772564557 Human rights, peacebuilding Conducting community Mashonaland Central, Men, women, youth and Education Trust - Central Nyamasoka/ Avenue, Belvedere, and community development. meetings and workshops on Mashonaland West, people with disabilities and ZIMCET Gladys Sathwayo Harare confict management and Mashonaland East, those who are HIV positive. confict transformation. Manicaland, Midlands, Matabeleland and Masvingo. Zimbabwe Civic Mashonaland Jan-00 Trust Cofee Samson 378 Nyamhunga, cofeesamson@gmail. 263772709498 Peacebuilding and confict Kariba Urban Political parties and NGOs Education Trust - West Kariba com management ZIMCET Zimbabwe Civic Harare Aug-01 Trust Gladys Hlatywayo - 217 Samora Machel, [email protected] www.zimcet.org.zw Civic education for rights, peace Carrying out peacebuilding Mashonaland Central, Youth, women and men Education Trust - Metropolitan Executive Director Harare and development. workshops in Mashonaland Mashonaland East, Bulawayo ZIMCET West and Mashonaland East and Masvingo Zimbabwe Congress Masvingo Feb-81 registered Japhet Moyo - 88 Speke Avenue 10th [email protected] 263712611226 Workers representation, workers Conducting workshops Masvingo Province and Young workers, women of Trade Unions - Secretary General foor Chester House rights and human rights issues. involving ZCTU, local Beitbridge structures, shop stewards at ZCTU Harare authorities and political parties. the shop foor and other trade union activists. Zimbabwe Congress Midlands Feb-81 Worker Board Simon Hamadziripi 5414 Mkoba 15, Gweru [email protected] 263712387995 To safeguard and represent We use dialogue as a means of Gokwe North, Gokwe Every working class of Trade Unions - the interest of workers against solving the conficts whereby South, Nkayi, Crossroads, irrespective of age and ZCTU oppression from their employees each party is given equal Munyati, Kwekwe, Gweru, gender. chance to express and explain Shurugwi ,Zvishavane, how the confict occurred. Mberengwa, Sandawana, Muzawa, Chivhu, Mvuma and Lalapanzi Zimbabwe Council Midlands NGO Rev Canon E.M 40 Mofat Avenue, revcanonembasvi@ 263775127421 Church administration,human Leading a clergy conferencing Gweru, Kwekwe, Zhombe- Church leaders, men, women, of Churches Basvi-Coordinator Gweru gmail.com rights issues, HIV and AIDS issues, and participation in confict Gokwe, Shurugwi Urban, youth. We also work with the children and orphan welfare, resolution and transformation Zvishavane and Mberengwa. clergy through the district training in the church in the Midlands. Zimbabwe Election Harare Jan-00 Rindai Chipfunde - 10 Rochester Cresent, [email protected] +263 4 250736/ www.zesn.org.zw Monitoring and observing Holding meetings with National Political parties, electorate Support Network Director Belgravia, Harare 791443/ 798193/ elections, holding public diferent political party leaders, - ZESN 791803 meetings and workshops to keep encourage them to speak to the electorate up to date with their supporters and educate electoral reforms them to shun violence. Zimbabwe Human Masvingo Jan-92 PVO Thomas Mbetu 2nd Floor ZIMRE [email protected] 26339266224 www.zimrights. Human Rights Through peacebuilding Mwenezi, Zaka, Chiredzi, Local and rural communities Rights Association - Central, Masvingo co.zw workshops Bikita ZimRights Zimbabwe Human Mashonaland Jan-93 PVO Kelvin Nzimba Nyamazizi Primary 263774107020 / Peacebuilding, advocacy and By involving community leaders Mt Darwin, Mazowe, Bindura, Chiefs, Headman and Political Rights Association - Central - Regional School, Box 161, Mt. 263775165549 human rights education. and making them own the Shamva, Muzarabani, parties. ZimRights Chairperson Darwin programme. Rushinga and Guruve. Zimbabwe Human Manicaland Jan-92 Welfare Mr Okay Machisa Zimrights Head omachisa@zimrights. 263705898 Campaigning for and defending Engaging grassroots Manicaland Province Traditional leaders, youth and Rights Association - Organization Quarters, Cnr 4th/ co.zw human rights. Human rights community directly. Partnering adults, rural communities ZimRights Baines Avenue, Harare democracy and governance likeminded HR organisations. issues Joint activities with JOMIC.

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Zimbabwe Human Bulawayo Jan-92 PVO Florence Ndlovu No 4, East, House Fort [email protected] 263772969330 www.zimrights. We mainly encourage people to At the moment we are Bulawayo, Matabeleland Everyone from senators, MP’s, Rights Association - Street, (Between 12-13 co.zw know and defend their human working with chiefs, teaching North, Matabeleland South councillors, chiefs, village ZimRights Avenue) Bulawayo rights. We document and them on human rights and heads, headmen, church and advocate for policy changes peacebuilding in order for people in the grassroots concerning human rights and them to discourage vigilantes also teach communities on from committing human rights peacebuilding, promotion, abuses. protecting and defending through a grassroots approach. Zimbabwe Human Harare Jan-92 PVO Oky Machisa - 90th Street, Harare 263773446162 Our main focus is on We conduct workshops Mashonaland Central The members and the general Rights Association - Metropolitan National Director peacebuilding, research and with community using our community ZimRights advocacy membership and traditional leaders like village heads, chiefs and councillors Zimbabwe Human Harare Jan-98 Shastry Njeru - 8th Floor Blue Bridge [email protected] 2634250511 We are concerned with the level The Forum launched a project Manicaland (Mutasa Central, Ordinary Zimbabweans in Rights Non- Metropolitan Transitional Justice North, Eastgate, and nature of organised violence named Nurturing Sustainable Nyanga North), Mashonaland the diferent constituencies Governmental Unit Manager Harare and torture in the country Justice and Peace in West (Hurungwe) and and work with member and Organisations perpetuated mainly, though not Zimbabwean Communities. It Mashonaland Central partner organisations that Forum exclusively, by state agents and is an innovative response after (Chiweshe) have roots in the areas we their ancillaries. calls by MPs who recognised the go in. unprecedented tension, hatred and phobia among people of their constituencies Zimbabwe Junior Mashonaland Sep-08 Trust Mashoko 62 Livingstone Avenue, [email protected] 263773050546 Confict management and Mhondoro, Ngezi 2 and 8, Adolescents, students and Achievements -ZIJA West Matonhodze - Harare transformation, early warning Mashonaland West school leavers Coordinator programme Zimbabwe Lawyers Manicaland Jan-96 Peggy Tavagadza - Winstone House peggymapfumo@gmail. 263777099325 Human Rights Through transitional justice Masvingo Urban and Rural, Youth, leaders, adults and for Human Rights Projects Lawyer Mutare com trainings in communities and Mutare Urban and Rural school children - ZLHR trainings with leadership Zimbabwe National Masvingo Jan-92 PVO Proft Mukuze 7150 Bradburn Ex [email protected] 263777664561 To capacity build people living Through holding diferent Masvingo Province People living with HIV, the Network of People - Provincial road, Masvingo with HIV training workshops on confict infected and afected. Living with HIV Coordinator management. Zimbabwe National Masvingo Mar-89 Trust Tiringindi Prosper - 89 Magret Street zinasumasvingo@yahoo. 263775363293 To promote equal education Peacemaking interventions Masvingo Province Students Students Union - Chairperson Rhodene, Masvingo com opportunity in education sector to bring about an agreement ZINASU using diplomatic and political means. Zimbabwe National Mashonaland Jan-97 Trust Stewart John 44 Emerald Hill, Harare [email protected] 263774739929 Bringing meaningful and pro- Zimbabwe as a whole All academically prudent Students Union - West poor educational policies students in Zimbabwe ZINASU Zimbabwe Midlands Dec-12 Trust Nkosilathi Moyo - 1 CABS Building, [email protected] 263775037579 Advocating for the participation We designed a confict Midlands Province and part of Youth aged between 16 Organisation for MA489/2010 Director Robert Mugabe, of youth and young women resolution and peace building Matabeleland (Lupane, Nkayi and 35 years and the whole Youth in Politics - Kwekwe in political processes and outreach programme in the and Binga) community at large ZOYIP citizenship rights. We work with midlands province youth across all political divides. Zimbabwe Peace Manicaland Jan-09 Trust George Hukuimwe 44 Chingaira Road, [email protected] 263773050994 Counselling and advocacy for Partnering with other Rusape, Chimanimani, Youth, women and children. and Counselling - Director Rusape; 152 Hebert human rights. Counselling for organisations to do Nyanga, Mutare Communities are benefting. Centre Chitepo, Mutare victims of political violence and peacebuilding workshops We work with traditional promoting human rights culture mostly in communities afected leaders, political leaders and in Zimbabwe. by political violence. other NGO Zimbabwe Peace National 2000 Jestina Mukoko P.O. Box BE 427 [email protected] 2634747719 www. Monitoring and documenting Mapping areas where violence National Men, women, boys and girls Project - ZPP Belvedere Harare zimpeaceproject. politically motivated human takes place and refer survivors and also the aged and those com rights abuses to service organisations namely with chronic illnesses doctors, therapists and lawyers Zimbabwe Research Bulawayo Sep-12 Trust Calvin Dube - 30008/27, Entumbane, [email protected] 263777352748 Youth development Through workshops and focus Bulawayo, Matabeleland Gender based organisations and Public Forum - Director Bulawayo coordination, research on issues group discussions North, Matabeleland South and youth as they are agents ZIMREPF afecting youth and women, of confict and it is the group awareness on gender issues and that is active in confict issues youth problems Zimbabwe Women Mashonaland Sep-92 Trust Fiso Ncube - Legal 17 Fife Avenue, Harare [email protected] 2634708491 www.zwla.co.zw Defending, asserting women Harare Central, Bulawayo Women and children Lawyers Association West Assistant rights Central, Mashonaland - ZWLA West, Matabeleland North, Matabeleland South, Mashonaland East, Manicaland

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141 Organisation Province Est. Registration Point of Contact Physical Address Email Phone Number Website Main Focus Involvement in Peace Geographical Coverage Target Group(s) Name Status Initiatives

Zimbabwe Women Harare Apr-92 Trust Patrice Dziire 17 Fife Avenue, Harare [email protected] 2634706676 www.zwla.co.zw Legal aid provision to By advocating for enactment of Manicaland (Buhera and Policy makers for change Lawyers Association Metropolitan women and children, lobby laws and policies that promote Makoni), Harare, Bulawayo, in laws and attitudes. Men - ZWLA and advocacy, strategic women’s peace and security. Mashonaland West, and women for change in litigation, legal education and We represent women who have Mashonaland East, Masvingo behaviour and appreciation empowerment had their rights violated due to of laws. Women and children. conficts, either in private space We work with FBOs, CBOs, or in a public domain. We also Churches, and other Civic document cases that inform Society Organisations to our lobby campaigns. create referral pathways and get buy-in that infuences changes at diferent levels Zimbabwe Writers Bulawayo Jan-87 National Arts and Calvin Dube - C/O Njube High [email protected] 263777352748 Research and writing, promotion We use creative works to Bulawayo, Matabeleland We target mainly youth and Union Culture Chairperson School, Taylor Avenue, and nurturing creative writing, transform lives of communities North, Matabeleland South women, we nurture talent Njube Township promotion of welfare of writers, such as literature to promote and assist them to express poets and arts practitioners, peace and to bring awareness themselves through writing, defending and safeguarding on community problems. We acting and dialogue rights of writers and society in also use literature as a tool to general promote and defend rights of the community. Zimbabwe Youth Mashonaland Jan-12 Ministry of Youth Tapiwanashe Population Service tapiwachikondowa@ 263772278970 Youth empowerment and We conduct workshops on Chinhoyi Urban Youth aged between 15 and Council - ZYC West Chikondowa Centre gmail.com development confict management and a 35 years. - Provincial signed Peace Pact with Political Chairman Parties in Mashonaland West

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