Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission Strategic Plan 2015-2020 10.25.3 Access to Human Rights Education (Demographics as a Factor) - Most human rights actors focus their attention and concentrate their activities in urban and semi-urban centres. This practice unfortunately ignores the fact that the majority of Zimbabwe’s population lives in remote rural locations with limited access to transportation and telecommunication infrastructure. The ZHRC is not sufficiently visible in the rural areas of Zimbabwe, where over 60% of the population resides. The ZHRC will therefore make deliberate efforts to engage the public through a broad nationwide awareness campaign based on the country’s demographics. The ZHRC is a people-oriented Commission, and will therefore establish a national infrastructure that reflects the spatial distribution of the population. (Action Plan Ref: Output 13B) 10.25.4 Translation of the Constitution and Educational Materials into Local Languages - Some citizens require language translations, and simplified versions of educational materials in order to effectively educate them on human rights and related issues. ZHRC will translate (as well as facilitate and encourage other relevant institutions to translate) reading materials on human rights education from English to Shona, Ndebele and other local languages recognised in the Constitution. This will broaden the reach to the wider rural population. (Action Plan Ref: Output 13A and 13B) 10.26 STAKEHOLDER CONSULTATION FRAMEWORK ZHRC will develop a stakeholder engagement framework that allows it to interact with its stakeholders regularly and maintain a fluid, transparent relationship. ZHRC will facilitate regular consultative workshops with NGOs and civil society organisations (“CSO”) and share information for the advancement of human rights. CSOs will produce periodic human rights reports for review and consolidation into a joint human rights report. ZHRC will publish a monthly human rights bulletin to be distributed with news and updates on the operations of the ZHRC, and the human rights situation in the country. (Action Plan Ref: Output 11A) 10.27 PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS In its broadest sense, the mandate of the ZHRC is to bring awareness, promote, protect and enforce human rights. The ZHRC is therefore tasked with the duty to ensure human rights are upheld in Zimbabwe, and to provide credible information to regional organisations by providing evidence on the state of human rights in Zimbabwe. The Commission has observed that public awareness of ZHRC improves significantly whenever the Commission is seen on the ground dealing with actual cases, pursuing the protection, promotion and enforcement of human rights. 35