impacts on the growth of the economy. Will government then pay civil servants in US dollars during this period?
It is high time the Government and the RBZ come up with long lasting measures that drive economic growth.
As the country continues to fight COVID19, ZPP calls for the following:
● The Government must ensure that citizens have enough
food, water and access requisite services during the
Lockdown.
● Citizens must take seriously the call to stay at home and
social distancing in order to reduce the spread of the virus.
● Security services who have been deployed to enforce the
Lockdown to do so with respect to the Human Rights
tenets of the Constitution of Zimbabwe and must do so
using minimum force
● The Government to provide protective equipment for the
deployed forces.
● The Ministry of Health and Child Care should provide
timeous, truthful information on the virus so that citizens
are well informed and act accordingly
● Information dissemination on the virus needs to be
intensified as citizens in some communities seem not to
understand the meaning of staying at home and social
distancing
ABOUT ZPP
The organisation was founded in 2000 by church-based and
human rights organisations. The current members of ZPP are
Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe (EFZ), Zimbabwe Council of
Churches (ZCC), Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in
Zimbabwe (CCJPZ), Counselling Services Unit (CSU), Zimbabwe
Human Rights Association (ZimRights), Civic Education Network
Trust (CIVNET), Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ),
National Association for the Care of the Handicapped (NASCOH)
and Women and Law in Southern Africa (WLSA).
ZPP was established with the objective of monitoring,
documenting and building peace and promoting the peaceful
resolution of disputes and conflicts. The Zimbabwe Peace Project
seeks to foster dialogue and political tolerance through nonpartisan peace monitoring activities, mainly through monitors who
document the violations of rights in the provinces.
The monitors, who at full complement stand at 420, constitute the
core pool of volunteers, supported by four Regional Coordinators.
The Regional Coordinators relate with the national office headed
by the National Director and programme officers in various units.
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