Development co-operation policy:
Development Cooperation Policy 2019
- Goal: The Development Cooperation Policy seeks to address challenges that have proven to be stumbling blocks to ensuring the effectiveness and coordination of development cooperation.
- Objectives
- The overall objective of the policy is to contribute to sustainable and inclusive development as well as poverty reduction, in line with the National Development Agenda for the benefit of all Zimbabweans by consolidating and coordinating government efforts and development partners' support under a single government-led framework.
- This policy, therefore, seeks to ensure that external support from development partners is coordinated, harmonized, focused on results, as well as aligned to national priorities, institutions and systems as outlined in the National Development Agenda. This is expected to improve the quality and effectiveness of development cooperation.
- The policy further aims to ensure that the country has clear, systematic, and well coordinated procedures to solicit for, mobilize, utilize, manage, report, monitor, and evaluate development assistance.
- Principles
- Country ownership
- Alignment and harmonization
- Transparency and predictability
- Inclusivity
- Managing for results
- Accountability
- Value for money
- Reducing transaction costs
- Coordination
Aid Information Management System (AIMS):
N.A.
Development co-operation reports:
N.A.
Development cooperation mechanisms:
| Mechanism | Level and Actors | Objectives and Related Policies |
|---|---|---|
| High-Level Policy Dialogue Forum (Development Cooperation Policy Dialogue Forum - DCPDF) | National level
| DCPDF is to interact at a policy level through reviewing the effectiveness of development cooperation in Zimbabwe and providing guidance for improvement of effectiveness. |
| National Development Cooperation Forum (NDCF) | National level
| NDCF is the 'working group' to the DCPDF, will meet bi-annually in May and prior to the meeting of the DCPDF in October. The NDCF will operationalize specific guidance issued by the DCPDF, review both the effectiveness of development cooperation as well as overall progress in implementation of development partners' portfolios at the overall (country or multi-annual) strategic level to identify and resolve issues that my negatively impact implementation. |
| Development Partners' Coordination Group - Heads of Mission | National level
| The group is to provide a high-level platform for development partners to deliberate the strategic direction and policy issues related to effective development cooperation in Zimbabwe that will feed into the annual DCPDF meeting. Development partners will agree on frequency of meetings, arrangements for convening meetings and the chairing thereof. |
| Development Partners' Working Group | National level
| Government recommends that development partners establish the Development Partners' Working Groups (DPWGs) in those sectors where multiple development partners are active to provide a platform for those development partners who are active, but not in the lead in the concerned sector to contribute to dialogue within the sector, and will review interventions of all development partners |
| Sector/Cluster/Geographical Technical Working Groups | National level
| Government will support the use of the sector-wide approach as a coordination mechanism in complex/key sectors. For relevant sectors, Technical Working Groups are convened quarterly by the sector lead Ministry to provide a platform where Government and Development Partners can engage in sector policy dialogue and jointly monitor progress in the implementation of sector strategies. |