ZIMBABWE ELECTION SUPPORT NETWORK ANNUAL REPORT 2010 Below are the Website hits for the period January to December 2010 Statements and alerts Month Visits Unique Visits Hits New Visitors January, 2010 4 671 732 732 14770 February, 2010 4 376 982 721 14535 March, 2010 5,958 964 709 15901 April, 2010 8 819 987 661 20536 May, 2010 7 926 995 621 16253 June, 2010 8 507 841 466 17582 July, 2010 5 713 971 589 15640 August, 2010 5 947 846 656 15825 September, 2010 6 996 974 372 22597 October, 2010 8 077 1072 481 19246 November, 2010 8 155 959 486 16921 December, 2010 7 132 842 507 15621 A total of six statements were issued out, (2) on the continued prosecution of ZESN's staff member Mr. Lovemore Ndlovu on allegations of illegal convening a workshop in Hwange in October 2009. ZESN also produced several statements on the barring of ZESN from holding a workshop in Mbire, ZESN's position on the call for elections, a statement on minimum conditions for free and fair elections, a comment on the proposed electoral reforms and lastly a statement by the CSOs who attended the ZESN conference held in Vumba. Two alerts were produced, on updating ZESN members about Lovemore Ndhlovu's case which was still pending in the courts and his subsequent acquittal. Below is the graphical presentation of the website hits for the period under review, the slight decrease in hits during mid year resulted from the movement of the server from South Africa to the USA: Website Hits ZESN received some negative publicity over its activity of monitoring the constitution making process 25000 22597 20536 20000 Publicity campaigns 19246 17582 15901 14770 15000 16253 15640 15825 16921 15621 14535 Hits 10000 5000 st te m be r O ct ob er No ve m be r De ce m be r Se p e y gu Au Ju l Ju n M ay Ap ril ry M ar ch ru a Ja n Fe b ua ry 0 Two supplements on electoral reforms proposals were produced highlighting priority areas and giving ZESN's position. Another supplement on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the network was also produced and flighted in the print media. The supplement chronicled the journey of th ZESN over the past decade and also gave highlights of the 10 th anniversary celebrations held on the 17 of November at the 7 Arts Theatre where the ZESN anniversary documentary was also shown. Resource centre The programme continued to maintain and manage the resource centre with new books being continually catalogued and inquiries being attended to regarding material in the resource centre. Inquiries came in from university students on materials relating to electoral systems, other civil society organisations and the general public who have an interest in election and democracy related information. The department has also assisted Members of Parliament and students with books, journals and materials for desktop research. Kevin Maenzanise Media & Information Programme Assistant 17 PROMOTING DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS IN ZIMBABWE