National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) as established by section 252 of the New Constitution. Following these recommendations, a follow up consultative meeting was held in Harare on 27 February 2014 to set the objectives, terms of reference and the structure of the NTJWG. 46 organisations including representatives from government, participated in the consultative workshop. Following on the recommendations of the consultative meeting, elections for the NTJWG were set for 23 May 2014. 31 Organisations representing various transitional justice stakeholders participated in the election, which elected an eight member National Transitional Justice Working Group. The members are as follows: Mr. Alec Muchadehama: Reparations / Chairperson Prof. Pamela Machakanja Independent Expert / Deputy Chairperson Rev. Dr. Fraderick Chiromba: Promotion of Truth Ms. Roselyn Hanzi: Justice and Accountability Rev. Dr. Ray Motsi: Memorialization Ms. Memory Kachambwa: Gender Mr. Anthony Reeler: Independent Expert / Institutional Reform Mr. Otto Saki Independent Expert 3. 0 The Nature and Structure of the NTJWG The consultative meeting of stakeholders, on 27th February 2014, established the model structure for the NTJWG. It was agreed that the NTJWG would be structured around 5 thematic areas: Promotion of Truth, Justice and Accountability, Reparations and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence, Memorialisation and Gender. In addition, it was agreed that there would be three independent experts to support the different thematic areas and also on the areas that may not fit into any specific themes. The strategic planning meeting, which followed on 30 and 31 July 2014, added the 6th thematic area of Institutional Reforms and allocated one of the independent experts to head it. The NTJWG elected its Chairperson and Deputy for a period of 12 months. The Chairperson is the spokesperson of the NTJWG. The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum will be the secretariat for the NTJWG.   3  

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