ActionAid International Southern Africa Partnership Programme (SAPP-Zimbabwe) and counselling while they are displaced and desperate for humanitarian assistance. It can be argued that access to prevention information has also been diminished as the information focal points (work places, residential clusters) have been destroyed. Comprehensive treatment and quality care have also been compromised and this is characterised by disruption of ongoing treatment and in most cases the complete cessation of drug compliance due to lack of access and or proximity to the dispensing outlets. This situation has been further complicated by the break down of the quality care structures as care giving volunteers have also been affected by the operation and have reprioritised their activities to focus on their own survival and recovery. The Home based care component that provided holistic support to the ailing and their families is currently not functional in the affected areas. The overall impact of the operation Murambatsvina on the national response to HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe is not likely to be felt in the immediate term and this poses another national threat in the medium and long term. The 22% school drop out rate documented is extremely disastrous. The causal factors of this drop out rate being directly attributed to the effects of the operation means that there will be need for immediate support actions targeting the affected families and aimed at restoring these school children back to class. The ominous despair of some of the parents as a result of lost livelihoods, and their concerns that they may not be able to sustain school attendance of those children currently in school also draws specific attention to the urgent need for livelihood restoration programs targeting the affected communities and specifically the informal sector. The underlying rights and governance issues cannot be ignored and the full protection of human and civil rights must be guaranteed by the GoZ. A pro-poor policy stance should dominate all legislation reform debates and all recovery and rehabilitation frameworks. The recovery and rehabilitation process should factor in the access, control and full exercise of rights of the displaced. Accountability of the state to the recovery process should be ensured through meaningful participation in the process by all stakeholders and in particular the civil society. This recovery process should be inclusive to ensure appropriate, effective and realistic people centred planning and implementation of the recovery framework. Finally, the repetitive and seemingly continuous trend of displacing people in Zimbabwe should be analysed further with the view to understanding the causal factors, and remedial policy and practice changes that need to take place to ensure that this emerging pattern of displacement and the abuse and denial of rights does not continue in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe Operation Murambatsvina/Restore Order National Survey Report 31