In-Progress Promises

  • Promises Made

Promises

  1. Promotion of industrial and commercial activities within growth points and rural service centers.
  2. Accelerate establishment of irrigation schemes.
  3. Capacitating domestic institutions mandated with the promotion of the agricultural sector.
  4. Promoting climate-smart agricultural practices.
  5. Promote production and facilitate marketing of horticultural products, livestock, grains, pulses and oil seeds.
  6. Provision of support services in resettlement areas, including schools, hospitals, boreholes and extension services.
  7. Supporting investment in smallholding farmer irrigation schemes, targeting to facilitate irrigation of at least 200 hectares per administrative district.
  8. Intensify the revival of cotton production in order to re-establish the cotton-to-clothing value chain.
  9. Compensating white ex-farmers in line with the provisions of the National Constitution.
  10. Providing combine harvesters, and dryers, stock feed, manufacturing equipment and related inputs on a cost recovery basis.
  11. Enhancing the command agriculture funding model by ensuring that inputs are provided on time.
  12. Strengthening research and extension services, as well as farmer education on best agronomic practices.
  13. Expediting the issuance of security of tenure documents ( 99 year leases and A1 permits) in the next 5 years.
  14. Provision of adequate agricultural inputs to 2.2 million households on time.
  15. Rationalizing farm sizes and eliminating multiple farm ownership.
  16. Incentivise local producers to brand and differentiate their products in order to enhance competitiveness.
  17. Ensure the provision of electricity to all rural areas.
  18. Create opportunities for various agro-value chain players, including: financial service input suppliers, equipment suppliers, transporters, manufacturers and retailers.
  19. Broadening access to agricultural finance and inputs in the next 5 years.
  20. Promoting productivity-enhancing support systems and infrastructure in the next 5 years.
  21. Encourage business approaches to farming through corporate farming and the use of the ARDA Farmer Graduation Programme.
  22. Capacitation of the Zimbabwe Land Commission.
  23. Promote agro-processing (apiculture {bee keeping }, processing and canning of fruits and vegetables, oil expression and leather tanning) through strengthening Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Producer Associations.
  24. Developing markets for our Agricultural products to earn foreign currency.
  25. Broadening access to land for all Zimbabweans in the next 5 years.
  26. Zero Imports on cooking oil - Achieve dependence on local oil-seed for cooking-oil within four years.
  • Promises Made

Promises

  1. Modernise the country's border posts to improve efficiency in the facilitation of movement of people and trade and to equip border posts with modern infrastructure and technology to enhance security. Prioritise Beitbridge, Plumtree, Chirundu, Forbes, Nyamapanda, Victoria Falls and Kazungula.
  2. Ensure that the country's roads in both rural and urban areas are rehabilitated and maintained.
  3. Expedite the revamping of the railways infrastructure including the signals among others targeting the main railway routes.
  4. Encourage ease of doing business, procedure and the attendant costs.
  5. Establish service centres that provide milling, technical and gold-buying services to small scale miners.
  6. DDF will rehabilitate at least 3 bridges and regravel 300km of roads per year over the next 5 years in all rural provinces.
  7. Dualisation of all major roads starting with the Beitbridge-Harare Road, Harare-Chirundu Road and Kwekwe-Nkayi road; construction of ring roads to decongest the major cities.
  8. Set quotas for minerals including Platinum, Lithium and Chrome-ore to be beneficiated locally.
  9. Maintain active involvement of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) within the mining sector
  10. Government's fiscal policy will put emphasis on strong fiscal discipline, accountability and transparency for the restoration of macro-economic stability.
  11. Achieving fiscal and debt sustainability.
  12. Upgrading and expanding the backbone and core networks, towers and base stations.
  13. Establish Public Finance Management System ( PFMS ) district kiosks and connecting 63 Rural District Councils.
  14. Increased use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) to enhance productivity, product marketing, governance systems and service delivery.
  15. Capacitate disadvantaged groups to actively participate in the tourism industry.
  16. Modernise and re-position our domestic and international airports; equipped with the latest equipment and technologies.
  17. Promote investments and use of renewable clean energy resources such as solar, hydro, wind and bio-gas.
  18. Facilitate investments in the energy sector by both public institutions and independent power producers (IPPs) in order to ensure consistent availability of efficient and affordable energy to all citizens.
  19. Increase power generation at 5 power stations.
  20. Restore market confidence by ensuring efficient circulation of cash through the banking system.
  21. Enforce the "use-it-or-lose-it" principle in order to curb speculative hoarding of mining claims and make mineral deposits available to serious miners, including local entrepreneurs.
  22. Increased funding for national development project and programs.
  23. Maintaining a stable and predictable business environment.
  24. Enhancing foreign currency retention thresholds for exporting firms.
  25. Creation of jobs through value chains in agriculture, livestock, fisheries, wildlife production and marketing.
  26. Liberalising airwaves by allowing new players in the mobile telecoms sector and promoting the adoption of modern technologies.
  27. Develop Diamond and Lithium Policies to facilitate investment.
  28. Ensure the conditions of service are progressively improved in tandem with the recovery of the economy.
  29. Promotion of an export-oriented strategy.
  30. Ensure that State Enterprises and Parastatals remain active in the mining sector.
  31. Development of Business Incubation Centres.
  32. Value add the country's raw products.
  33. Supporting mining companies to increase exports through export incentives, retention of export proceeds, and favourable taxes, levies and utilities.
  34. Facilitate a more coherent SME framework to strengthen production links across businesses and industry.
  35. Facilitate the creation of key liberation heritage products.
  36. Increase production and productivity.
  37. Ensure economic growth and transformation of Zimbabwe into a middle-income economy with a per capita income of about US$3,500 by 2030.
  38. Operationalise  the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in the Victoria Falls, Hwange, Binga, Kariba, and Masvingo tourism corridors.
  39. Ensure macro-economic and financial sector stability.
  40. Instituting fiscal reforms.
  41. Establishing a gold-backed bank.
  42. Formalisation of the informal sector to ensure creation of decent jobs.
  43. Lowering the cost of doing business.
  44. Provide training in sustainable mining practices and product marketing for artisan and small-scale miners to increase production and enhance productivity in an environmentally-sustainable manner.
  45. Facilitate market access for small-scale producers.
  46. Facilitate access to finance by SMEs, artisanal miners and farmers.
  47. Establish a revolving fund targeting SMEs in tourism in order to promote the increased participation of Zimbabweans in the Tourism sector.
  48. Capacitate SME banking institutions to roll out banking models that go beyond traditional credit facilities.
  49. Enhance public procurement practices in order to encourage the participation of SMEs in public tenders.
  50. Introduce supportive tax reforms.
  51. Transforming Zimbabwe into a Regional Logistics Hub.
  52. Connecting all government ministries in Bulawayo, Gweru, Masvingo, Mutare and Gwanda on optic fibre.
  53. Develop tourism products and implement projects that are informed by the national tourism sector strategy.
  54. Increase exports by facilitating entry into prime world markets on the back of bilateral ties. 
  55. Retool and modernising technologies through friendly fiscal and monetary policy support measures including tax waivers on import of machinery and raw materials, access to affordable long term project finance and fiscal incentives.
  56. Improve transport connectivity to local tourist destinations.
  57. Empower banks to set up credit facilities to support business projects undertaken by the youth.
  58. Create employment in transport and logistics
  59. Amendment of the Mines and Minerals Act [Chapter 21:05].
  60. Ensure that the rights of workers enshrined in the Constitution are fully protected.
  61. Support the private sector to attract international brands by ensuring that it abides by all rules governing international finance, investments and trade relations.
  62. Implement the amended Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act [Chapter 14:33] to attract foreign investment into the mining sector while also promoting the local content policy.
  63. Create a favourable tax system.
  64. Creation of supporting infrastructure for modern vending stalls in all major urban areas.
  65. Implement targeted community programmes to improve livelihoods of communities.
  66. Effective implementation of frugal public expenditure management policies. 
  67. Formulating and implementing an ICT and infrastructure sharing policy.
  68. Expedite the implementation of the local content policy.
  69. Capacitate development finance institutions, including the micro-finance institutions, in order to support the sector with accessible financial facilities.
  70. Expedite the ease of doing business reforms.
  71. Promote collaboration between polytechnics, universities and SMEs to spearhead the development of new innovations
  72. Construct these railway lines: Lion’s Den-Chirundu to Kafue, Harare-Nyamapanda-Moatize, Beitbridge - Chikwalakwala - Mkuze and construction of the Walvis Bay dry port.
  73. Pursue an aggressive tourism recovery and engagement of the non-traditional source markets such as China, India, Belarus.
  74. Promote use of non cash-based payment platforms, such as mobile and electronic payment systems (plastic money).
  75. Protect property rights in an environment where security of tenure is uncontested.
  76. Expedite implementation of SEZs.
  77. Avail more facilities to small-scale gold miners through the RBZ.
  78. Promote international re-engagement to unlock access to lines of credit and diaspora remittances.
  79. Enhance the IPPs framework in order to facilitate the implementation of current and future IPP projects.
  80. Streamline regulations and policies affecting export processes and manufacturing in general.
  81. Revision of tax policy in order to encourage entrepreneurs to formalise their operations.
  82. Artisanal mining reserved for indigenous people.
  83. Recover growth volumes in the traditional western markets.
  84. Recapitalize the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and refocus it's operation to a development finance institution.
  85. Strengthen and revitalise value chains across all sectors of the economy.
  86. Promote domestic tourism, targeting Zimbabweans in the country and those in the diaspora.
  87. Increase industrial capacity utilisation to at least 90% by 2023.
  88. Establishing new companies, technologies and investment opportunities.
  89. Provide fiscal incentives to promote investment and the use of cleaner energy in line with efforts by the UN to mitigate the negative effects of climate change.
  90. Review Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements to promote and encourage investment from across the world.
  91. Implement the SADC industrialisation strategy.
  92. Implement digital marketing campaigns to promote destination Zimbabwe.
  93. Reduce business licencing and registration fees for indigenous people.
  94. Encourage investment in methane gas, establishment of coal to liquid fuel plants and the setting up of petro-chemical industries that will assist in the provision of ammonium nitrate energy and gas in the next 5 years.
  95. All infrastructure investment projects will be granted national project status to reduce costs by drawing on the available fiscal incentives.
  96. Spend at least 2% of the GDP on Research and Development through direct budgetary support and fiscal incentives to innovators.
  • Promises Made

Promises

  1. Continue to map out strategies in the education sector in order to have an education system that is responsive to the country’s development needs.
  2. Rehabilitate public healthcare infrastructure.
  3. Enhance the Science, Tech, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) program.
  4. Create social safety nets.
  5. In collaboration with the private sector, deliver at least 1.5 million affordable housing units to the people in the next 5 years.
  6. Clear a huge housing backlog.
  7. Review the remuneration structure for the medical professionals.
  8. Invest more in schools' infrastructure development and proper resourcing of schools through the building of 2000 schools by 2023.
  9. Formulation of an e-health strategy for Zimbabwe.
  10. Mainstream disability into all community services, programmes and government projects.
  11. Resuscitate the country's pharmaceutical industry to increase the availability of drugs at affordable prices.
  12. Restore sanity to unplanned urban land development while improving social amenities in the urban centres.
  13. Establish a modern, affordable healthcare system for all. Reducing hospital fees by 50%, improving the supply of critical drugs, guaranteeing free health care to all cancer patients
  14. Zero tolerance and prosecution for land barons.
  15. Review the conditions of service for the teaching profession.
  16. Improve Health service delivery in line with the SDGs by year 2023.
  17. Support investment in peoples’ skills development.
  18. Regularise all urban land allocations with title deeds being issued to beneficiaries.
  19. Ensure that there is no child from a disadvantaged family that should be deprived of an opportunity to attend school at whatever level.
  20. Enhance access to basic health care and education for vulnerable groups.
  21. Provide educational loans to students undertaking tertiary education in partnership with the private sector.
  22. Incentivise responsive community programmes that will enhance community participation in their development.
  23. Build 78 new hospitals  and establish at least one new hospital per administrative district by 2023 (modification from Pledge card).
  24. Ensure that people with disabilities can conveniently access public services and polling stations.
  25. Increase budgetary allocations from social welfare.
  26. Invest in new healthcare facilities in order to ensure access to health services for all, particularly in rural and in resettlement areas.