The Commission will partner with various state and non-state actors to provide human rights
education during the election period.
Awareness raising campaign tools may include:
As the Commission implements the above activities the most marginalised communities such as persons
with disabilities, women, youth and the elderly will be strategically targeted to ensure specific, targeted
and appropriate provisions for equal participation as well as modes of communication are developed to
enable their participation in electoral process on an equal basis with others. As further emphasised
below in section 4.6 (Implementation of the Elections Strategic Plan) of the strategy, marginalised
communities will be mainstreamed in the strategy to address cross cutting issue. Thus, when
implementing the above activities, the Commission will utilize various tools that may include those in
Fig 4 below:
Awareness Raising Mediums
Electronic Media
Radio
Print Media
Newspaper adverts
Others
Door to door campaigns by Commission
educators
Television
Brochures
Road Shows (awareness education on Wheels)
Social media (Facebook,
WhatsApp, Snap Chat, Twitter)
Bulk SMS
Fact sheets
Branding of public transport
IEC Materials
Bill boards
Websites
Infomercials
Existing Social gatherings especially in the
rural areas (market days, cattle dipping days,
traditional gatherings) religious gatherings,
sports events and burial societies meetings, food
distribution points.
Figure 4: awareness raising mediums
Activities will include:
4.1.3.
The development of voter awareness strategy, developed and used to improve better
conceptualization of awareness programs.
Baseline studies on public perceptions will be conducted to inform outreach interventions
Training materials and message development and production
Training of awareness raising master trainers and awareness raising educators
Roll out of the voter awareness campaign
Periodic evaluations of interventions will be undertaken to assess impact and results.
Increasingly creative use of the media will be applied as one of the mechanisms to promote
outreach.
Strategic Goal 3: To facilitate and operationalize an effective redress mechanism for
election related human rights violations
Objectives
To provide a forum for resolving grievances and disputes during elections
Context
The ZHRC has statutory powers to determine and provide redress on cases of human rights violations
during elections. In addition to the functions and powers set out in section 100R (6) and (7) of the
Constitution, the Commission shall have functions and powers— (a) to conduct investigations on its
own initiative or on receipt of complaints. This is important given the challenges identified in the
implementation of the provision of Section 133 H of the Electoral Act. The Act provides for the setting
up of Special Investigation Committees (SIC) made up of the police and the HRC to investigate human
rights violations during the electoral period. It was however noted, during the strategic development
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