A Guide to Understanding A Guide to Understanding the the NATIONAL NATIONAL PEACE & RECONCILIATION PEACE & RECONCILIATION COMMISSION COMMISSION IN ZIMBABWE IN ZIMBABWE How does the NPRC make Acknowledgments 6.0 Reports and Recommendations? The National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) Reports acknowledges support given by various stakeholders during the development of this ccording to theguide. Constitution, the NPRC is required to produce yearly reports. The NPRC Act provides parliament Special thanks go the to secretariat of the NTJWG, can request theto NPRC produce any other reportswhich that it is the finds necessary. Additionally, the NPRC Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum.can submit further reports to the Parliament on its own initiative. Reports submitted through theThis responsible Minister presented to Parliament guide would not must havebe been successful without thewithin generous tensupport days of the sitting of Parliament from the date the Minister of our funding partners. has received them. In thirty days from the day the reports are supposed to be presented to Parliament, the NPRC is obliged For feedback and information in this guide, we are gratefultoto the make public such reports. Each report of the NPRC must have a stakeholders who read through the draft guide and gave valuable specific chapter on gender. After 18 months, the commission will beinput. obliged to make public information pertaining to its business. A Finally, we owe it to the thousands of victims who have requested for Recommendations this simplified guide. It is their enduring hope for healing which keeps us on our feet. The NPRC can use these reports to make its recommendations. Within six months after the NPRC’s annual report has been presented in Parliament, the Minister is obliged to respond to such a report indicating which recommendations of the Commission Government intends to implement and the way such implementation will take place. The Minister will also be expected to indicate which recommendations the Government intends not to implement and the reasons for such non-implementation. Within 15 days of the Minister’s report, Parliament must debate that report. The NPRC only makes recommendations. It does not make the law. According to the Constitution, the NPRC recommends Parliament to make legislation to ensure that assistance, including documentation, is rendered to persons affected by conflicts, pandemics or other circumstances. The NPRC Act envisages other contents and recommendations that can be included in the NPRC reports. The complete list is as follows: 30 4