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The Private Voluntary Organisation Amendment Bill (hereinafter the “Amendment Bill”) was gazetted on 5 November 2021. Its memorandum stipulates three objectives of the Amendment Bill. Firstly, the Amendment Bill seeks to ensure Zimbabwe's compliance with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendation 8 regarding money laundering and terrorism financing. Secondly, the Amendment Bill aims to streamline administrative procedures for Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) to allow for efficient regulation and registration. Thirdly, the Amendment Bill aims to ensure that PVOs do not undertake political lobbying. Further to the initial Amendment Bill, on the 7th of June 2022, the Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare submitted significant amendments to the gazetted 2021 Amendment Bill on the National Assembly Order Paper. A cursory analysis of the amendments reveal that when passed into law, this piece of legislation will present grim operational restrictions and challenges to all Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Zimbabwe working in different sectors. However, these challenges will differ depending on the current form of registration of the organisation, i.e., PVO, Trust or Common Law Universitas and depending on the focus of the work being carried out by the organisation. Consequently, CSOs are vulnerable and at risk of being deregistered and closed when the Amendment Bill is assented into law. Against this backdrop, this report also examines both amendments (those published on 5 November 2021 and amendments submitted on 7 June 2022) for purposes of ascertaining the likely implications of the amendments on different types of CSOs (i.e., Trusts, PVOs or Universitas). The report also recognises the operational challenges that will affect CSOs and therefore maps scenario and present recommendations for planning purposes.
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The National Budget which is a revenue and expenditure plan prepared by the government of Zimbabwe for the coming fiscal year. Ideally, the National Budget should guarantee the realisation of the varying rights, needs and aspirations of citizens, particularly the poor and vulnerable, including women, children, people with disabilities and the elderly. The 2021 National Budget was presented before the House of Assembly by the Minister of Finance and Economic Development on the 26 of November, 2020 under the theme “Building resilience and Sustainable Economic Recovery”. The National Budget will be followed by the approval by Parliament of Zimbabwe paving way for its implementation. The 2021 National Budget marks the beginning of the implementation of the National Development Strategy 1(NDS1) 2021 – 2025.
Every year, we mobilise Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and the general citizenry to effectively participate in all the four stages of the budget cycle which are formulation, approval, implementation and audit. NANGO, is alive to the fact that budgets should be from people, by people and for people. The involvement of citizens in the national budget process is derived from section 141 of the constitution which mandates the Parliament of Zimbabwe to a) facilitate public involvement in its legislative and other processes and in the processes of its committees; b) ensure that interested parties are consulted about Bills being considered by Parliament of Zimbabwe, unless such consultation is inappropriate or impracticable. Meaningful involvement and effective participation of general citizenry and marginalized groups in the national
budget processes ideally guarantees the advancement, realisation and enjoyment of their social, economic, political,
environmental, and cultural rights. This is key to ensure that the National Budget as a public policy becomes pro-people and
pro-poor. In addition to this, Section 13 (2) of the constitution provides for the involvement of citizens in the formulation and
implementation of development programmes and projects that affect them.
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Scenario-Mapping-and-Strategic-Planning-Report-for-the-PVO-Amendment-Bill.pdf