ActionAid International Southern Africa Partnership Programme (SAPP-Zimbabwe) RECOMMENDATIONS It would suffice to mention that we are in agreement with the recommendations provided in the UN special envoys fact finding mission report (7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5 of that report). The range of recommendations presented in this report is mentioned in summary form below: Immediate Humanitarian Support 1. Immediate support to restore school attendance to at least 24,332 children recorded in the survey who are not attending school as a direct result of the operation. 2. Medium term measure support to ensure a further 26,244 children do not drop out of school. 3. Direct livelihood restoration support to at least 164,602 households of small traders who lost their livelihoods as a result of the operation. 4. Immediate assessment of people rendered homeless by the operation, where they are, and immediate provision of emergency shelter for this caseload. 5. Immediate targeted food aid to at least 811,899 individuals (139,982 households) affected not in holding camps and churches. 6. Immediate access to ART and quality care for people living with HIV and AIDS and are currently displaced. 7. Targeted support for displaced women headed households to reduce the multiple vulnerabilities that they face. 8. Humanitarian agencies should increase their coverage and scale up their responses to ensure greater and holistic support to the affected households. Medium term policy support 1. Legislation review to support informal sector activities and restore income security for affected families that constituted 73% of the respondents in this study. 2. Inclusive planning and recovery process to ensure appropriate, pro-poor and people centred recovery and rehabilitation process. 3. The Government of Zimbabwe should be accountable for the upholding of civil and human rights for all affected households. 4. Greater donor response to the humanitarian imperative, and support to civil society response programmes for more effective coverage. 5. Deliberate scaling up of access to information and awareness to ensure that affected households are informed of their entitlements and where to secure them. Zimbabwe Operation Murambatsvina/Restore Order National Survey Report ix