11 August 2023 Introduction The recent release of ZIMRA’s 2022 Annual Report has amplified the call by CSOs and recommendations from the 2022 Open Budget Survey (OBS) [1] on the need for the Government to step up on transparency and accountability of tax expenditures. The published ZIMRA report disclosed that the total revenue foregone because of […]
April 2020 As the country is adopting a cocktail of economic measures to contain the impacts of the Coronavirus, it is important for civil society organisations (CSOs) and citizens to understand why transparency and accountability in the Extractive Sector can be a game changer in Zimbabwe’s fight against its current and future social development problems. […]
25 February 2020 Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources, Hon Foday Rado Yokie EU Ambassador to SL, Mr Tom Vens MRU Deputy Secretary General, Dr Abubakarr Tarawalie GIZ Project Coordinator Mr Patric Makua WDC Executive Director, Elodie Daguzan Chair of WGAAP, Mr Maurice Miema Ladies and gentlemen good morning. Introduction On behalf of the KP […]
By Sandra Musonza (ZIDAWU) Date: 6-8 November 2019 Venue: Forest Hill Hotel B Data journalism simply means digging issues from communities and putting these in the public domain for advocacy purposes. We should appreciate the role played by the media in disseminating vital information. Recognizing the significance of community data journalists, the Zimbabwe Environmental Law […]
By Shamiso Mtisi Deputy Director for Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) and Coordinator of KP Civil Society Coalition Despite years of working on diamonds, this is my very first blog profiling my observations and points of reflection in monitoring a highly sensitive diamond industry. This is a sector where one meets the rich, the […]