Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission Strategic Plan 2015-2020 Presence of Vast stakeholders Base including Development and Funding Partners  Technical support and Funding partners can come aboard  The Commission is a pioneer institution  The Commission has room to create a good name/niche  Strong legal framework  Gives us a good platform from which to launch operations  Widespread optic fibre (broadband)  Get connected with clients and stakeholders through the internet  New Constitution with room for legislative amendments  Can optimize their legal framework  Legislative framework – ZHRC is constitutionally founded  Formulate policies that build on this strong foundation   Comprehensive consultation framework to exploit these potential partnerships Challenges: Any external circumstance or trend which will decrease the relevance of ZHRC’s specific competence(s) Challenges Strategic Implication  Restrictive Legal framework  Retrospective issues cannot be dealt with  Restrictive Legal Funding framework  Lobby to address procedures for seeking external funding  Lack of serious political commitment  The Commission to continuously engage Politicians to sensitize them on the Commission’s work and importance  Donor Fatigue  Lobby government to sustainably fund the Commission/s core costs and activity based costs  Resource scarcity-Human and Financial  Need for fundraising so that the Commission adequately resourced  Susceptible to political manipulation  ZHRC should endeavor to maintain transparency and accountability to stakeholders  Risk of being dismantled due to budgetary constraints on the government  Fundraising through continuous public/& stakeholder engagement  Limited scope of mandate  There may be need for legislative amendment in order to increase the enforcement powers of the ZHRC  Thin resources base  Need a robust resource mobilization strategy in order to effectively carry out mandate  Diverse needs and expectations from various stakeholders  Commission needs to enhance its service delivery capacity in order to serve the diverse stakeholder needs. 74