Promises
- Create opportunities for various agro-value chain players, including: financial service input suppliers, equipment suppliers, transporters, manufacturers and retailers.
- Accelerate establishment of irrigation schemes.
- Provision of adequate agricultural inputs to 2.2 million households on time.
- Supporting investment in smallholding farmer irrigation schemes, targeting to facilitate irrigation of at least 200 hectares per administrative district.
- Promote production and facilitate marketing of horticultural products, livestock, grains, pulses and oil seeds.
- Ensure the provision of electricity to all rural areas.
- Expediting the issuance of security of tenure documents ( 99 year leases and A1 permits) in the next 5 years.
- Strengthening research and extension services, as well as farmer education on best agronomic practices.
- Providing combine harvesters, and dryers, stock feed, manufacturing equipment and related inputs on a cost recovery basis.
- Rationalizing farm sizes and eliminating multiple farm ownership.
- 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.
- Zero Imports on cooking oil - Achieve dependence on local oil-seed for cooking-oil within four years.
- Broadening access to land for all Zimbabweans in the next 5 years.
- Promoting productivity-enhancing support systems and infrastructure in the next 5 years.
- Incentivise local producers to brand and differentiate their products in order to enhance competitiveness.
- Intensify the revival of cotton production in order to re-establish the cotton-to-clothing value chain.
- Promotion of industrial and commercial activities within growth points and rural service centers.
- Enhancing the command agriculture funding model by ensuring that inputs are provided on time.
- Compensating white ex-farmers in line with the provisions of the National Constitution.
- Broadening access to agricultural finance and inputs in the next 5 years.
- Encourage business approaches to farming through corporate farming and the use of the ARDA Farmer Graduation Programme.
- Capacitation of the Zimbabwe Land Commission.
- Developing markets for our Agricultural products to earn foreign currency.
Promises
- Ensuring the independence, transparency and dependability of the judiciary.
- Ensure equal access to opportunities for all people in Zimbabwe regardless of race, tribe, sex, religion or origin.
- Promote sound governance, inclusivity, transparency and accountability.
- Strengthen Auditor General's office to effectively exercise its oversight function.
- Continue to participate in the struggle for the eradication of all forms of imperialism, racialism, discrimination, marginalisation and dehumanisation of people.
- Ensure that there is proper reorientation of the Public Administration system in order to improve efficiency service quality, transparency and accountability in the public sector.
- Decentralisation of planning, approval and decision-making processes to promote growth of local industries in the provinces and districts.
- Eradicate every aspect of tribalism, regionalism and all forms of human exploitation and alienation.
- Establish and sustain an egalitarian society that cherishes Pan-African values.
Promises
- Ensure that the country's roads in both rural and urban areas are rehabilitated and maintained.
- Facilitate market access for small-scale producers.
- Increased use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) to enhance productivity, product marketing, governance systems and service delivery.
- Creation of jobs through value chains in agriculture, livestock, fisheries, wildlife production and marketing.
- Promote investments and use of renewable clean energy resources such as solar, hydro, wind and bio-gas.
- Increased funding for national development project and programs.
- Increase power generation at 5 power stations.
- 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.
- Ensure that performance-based bonuses are consistently paid on time and that workers receive fair wages and benefits.
- 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.
- Expedite the ease of doing business reforms.
- Implement targeted community programmes to improve livelihoods of communities.
- Promote collaboration between polytechnics, universities and SMEs to spearhead the development of new innovations
- Modernise and re-position our domestic and international airports; equipped with the latest equipment and technologies.
- DDF will rehabilitate at least 3 bridges and regravel 300km of roads per year over the next 5 years in all rural provinces.
- Effective implementation of frugal public expenditure management policies.
- Ensure macro-economic and financial sector stability.
- Prioritise beneficiation of iron ore and the production of steel as a solid foundation for industrialisation.
- Set quotas for minerals including Platinum, Lithium and Chrome-ore to be beneficiated locally.
- Develop tourism products and implement projects that are informed by the national tourism sector strategy.
- Amendment of the Mines and Minerals Act [Chapter 21:05].
- Establish one stop shop for the processing and administration of investments.
- Ensure the conditions of service are progressively improved in tandem with the recovery of the economy.
- Empower banks to set up credit facilities to support business projects undertaken by the youth.
- Strengthen and revitalise value chains across all sectors of the economy.
- Instituting fiscal reforms.
- Formalisation of the informal sector to ensure creation of decent jobs.
- Provide training in business management skills and business development services.
- Restore market confidence by ensuring efficient circulation of cash through the banking system.
- Facilitate the creation of key liberation heritage products.
- Ensure that State Enterprises and Parastatals remain active in the mining sector.
- Reduce business licencing and registration fees for indigenous people.
- Review Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements to promote and encourage investment from across the world.
- Maintaining a stable and predictable business environment.
- Promote domestic tourism, targeting Zimbabweans in the country and those in the diaspora.
- Improve transport connectivity to local tourist destinations.
- Capacitation of the country's Financial Institutions to support export businesses by strengthening the export credit and guarantee industry.
- Establish service centres that provide milling, technical and gold-buying services to small scale miners.
- Enhancing foreign currency retention thresholds for exporting firms.
- Promote the use of other currencies in the multicurrency basket in order to reduce over reliance on the USD.
- Attain economic growth rate of at least 6% per annum over the period 2018-2023.
- Streamline regulations and policies affecting export processes and manufacturing in general.
- 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.
- Increase exports by facilitating entry into prime world markets on the back of bilateral ties.
- Operationalise the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in the Victoria Falls, Hwange, Binga, Kariba, and Masvingo tourism corridors.
- 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.
- Establish Public Finance Management System ( PFMS ) district kiosks and connecting 63 Rural District Councils.
- Introduce supportive tax reforms.
- Transforming Zimbabwe into a Regional Logistics Hub.
- All infrastructure investment projects will be granted national project status to reduce costs by drawing on the available fiscal incentives.
- Capacitate development finance institutions, including the micro-finance institutions, in order to support the sector with accessible financial facilities.
- Expedite implementation of SEZs.
- Establishing new companies, technologies and investment opportunities.
- Value add the country's raw products.
- 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.
- Expedite the revamping of the railways infrastructure including the signals among others targeting the main railway routes.
- Create a favourable tax system.
- Support the private sector to attract international brands by ensuring that it abides by all rules governing international finance, investments and trade relations.
- Upgrading and expanding the backbone and core networks, towers and base stations.
- Implement digital marketing campaigns to promote destination Zimbabwe.
- Liberalising airwaves by allowing new players in the mobile telecoms sector and promoting the adoption of modern technologies.
- Increase industrial capacity utilisation to at least 90% by 2023.
- Facilitate access to finance by SMEs, artisanal miners and farmers.
- Capacitate SME banking institutions to roll out banking models that go beyond traditional credit facilities.
- Avail more facilities to small-scale gold miners through the RBZ.
- Enhance the IPPs framework in order to facilitate the implementation of current and future IPP projects.
- Increase production and productivity.
- Revision of tax policy in order to encourage entrepreneurs to formalise their operations.
- Enhance public procurement practices in order to encourage the participation of SMEs in public tenders.
- 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.
- 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.
- Role out of the national data centre recovery site (NDCR).
- Establish a revolving fund targeting SMEs in tourism in order to promote the increased participation of Zimbabweans in the Tourism sector.
- Formulating and implementing an ICT and infrastructure sharing policy.
- Enact the Corporate Governance Bill.
- Creation of supporting infrastructure for modern vending stalls in all major urban areas.
- Connecting all government ministries in Bulawayo, Gweru, Masvingo, Mutare and Gwanda on optic fibre.
- Capacitate disadvantaged groups to actively participate in the tourism industry.
- Achieving fiscal and debt sustainability.
- 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.
- Develop Diamond and Lithium Policies to facilitate investment.
- Development of Business Incubation Centres.
- Supporting mining companies to increase exports through export incentives, retention of export proceeds, and favourable taxes, levies and utilities.
- Facilitate a more coherent SME framework to strengthen production links across businesses and industry.
- Ensure economic growth and transformation of Zimbabwe into a middle-income economy with a per capita income of about US$3,500 by 2030.
- Establishing a gold-backed bank.
- Lowering the cost of doing business.
- 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.
- Expedite the implementation of the local content policy.
- Construct these railway lines: Lion’s Den-Chirundu to Kafue, Harare-Nyamapanda-Moatize, Beitbridge - Chikwalakwala - Mkuze and construction of the Walvis Bay dry port.
- Pursue an aggressive tourism recovery and engagement of the non-traditional source markets such as China, India, Belarus.
- Promote international re-engagement to unlock access to lines of credit and diaspora remittances.
- Artisanal mining reserved for indigenous people.
- Implement the SADC industrialisation strategy.
Promises
- Re-build local, regional and international partnerships.
- Improved inflows of international investments that will complement local investments.
- Respecting international protocols through their ratification and domestication where necessary.
- Strengthen bilateral relationships with China, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and Brazil as well as countries in our regional trading blocks namely SADC, ECOWAS and COMESA.
- Protect and preserve the national interest and security.
- Normalise the country’s relations with the UK, USA, EU, and the white farmers including those who were protected under BIPPAs .
- Re-engage international creditors.
- Engage Zimbabwean diaspora to contribute towards the social and economic development of the country.
- Access to lucrative export markets that will help stimulate domestic production capacity.
- Expedite and bring to finality the resolution of the country’s external debt arrears, under the LIMA Plan.
- Access to fairly priced long term development finance that is greatly needed to sustain our development agenda.
- Recover lost export markets.
- National rebranding and reducing country risk perception.
- Mend strained international relations, strengthen existing and create new friendships through re-engagement.