The National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) is a consolidation of decades of efforts by civil society actors in Zimbabwe to find solutions to tackle the transitional justice questions bedevilling the Zimbabwe nation and state. The NTJWG is a platform established by forty-six Zimbabwean transitional justice stakeholders to provide the interface between transitional justice stakeholders. It is a culmination of the efforts of many stakeholders dating back to the Symposium on Civil Society and Justice in Zimbabwe which was held in Johannesburg, South Africa from 11 to 13 August 2003. In October 2012 and 2013, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum organised the International Conference on Transitional Justice, bringing together stakeholders from civil society, churches, business, government, academia and international experts to deliberate on how best to achieve justice and give redress to victims of past violations. Bot conferences produced a key recommendation on the establishment of a Working Group, whose framework would include working towards the implementation of various transitional justice recommendations. These recommendations saw the birth of the NTJWG in July 2014. Among its key interventions in the past four years, the NTJWG has coordinated the development of the Minimum Standards for an Effective Peace and Reconciliation Process (2014), the development of the Guiding Principles on Transitional Justice in Zimbabwe (2015), Analysis of the National Peace and Reconciliation Bill (2016), which ultimately influenced the current law that was passed in 2017 and was put onto the Statute books on 5 January 2018. Currently, the NTJWG works with over 99 stakeholder organisations which include groups of survivors and publishes a regular monitoring report on transitional justice processes. The Various activities including national consultation processes have been conducted as well as engagements with the government of Zimbabwe through the NPRC continue to be conducted across the country in a bid to tackle the political, social and economic rights violations of the past. The end goal for the civil society groups in Zimbabwe is to reach a place where the whole nation can say #NEVERAGAIN to human rights violations, organised and state sponsored violence as well as ensuring that there is memorialisation for past atrocities, that there is remembrance for victims and survivors, adequate compensation through restitution and development programs, pyscho - social programs, economic reparations programs and criminal justice. Programs to know the truth about what really transpired at every turn there was violence meted out on Zimbabweans by the state or its agents are also critical. Rationale for the Transitional Justice Policy 15 years after the 2003 Johannesburg Symposium on “Civil Society and Justice in Zimbabwe”, most of the resolutions made by civil society in Zimbabwe remain outstanding. Ten years since the 2008 “Options for Transitional Justice in Zimbabwe Workshop”, the minimum demands by civil society remain unmet with no indication that there is a political will to do so. Three years after the NTJWGs 2015 Stakeholders Conference on “The Guiding Principles on Transitional Justice Policy and Practice”, no attempt has been made to adopt any policy on transitional justice, besides the NPRC Act. Several transitional justice provisions from the 2013 Constitution such as Section 210 which established the Independent Complaints Mechanisms to handle complaints against the security services have been ignored by the government and many victims remain hopeless that justice will be served. At the same time, the institutions that are responsible for gross violation of human rights continue to perpetrate such violations with impunity. It was out of this realisation, that transitional justice stakeholders who participated in the 7 February 2018 “NPRC What’s Next Conference” observed that “… Zimbabwe needs a comprehensive transitional justice policy that transcends a single institution …”. 5 2018 TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE POLICY SYMPOSIUM REPORT