lying area with few rivers and dams such that when it rains heavily there is no drainage for the excess rain water. Systems should be put in place to divert the excess rain water into small man-made rivers. b. Ministry of Local Government, Physical, Rural and National Housing and the Metrological Department should be at the forefront of a multi-sectorial approach to flood mitigation as opposed to single sector. This should be promoted as there are inter-linkages in terms of flood impact on various aspects of society. c. The Commission recommends that the Civil Protection Unit headed by District Administrator should ensure that IDPs have access to decent, permanent shelter. The CPU has the responsibility first and foremost to take care of victims of natural disasters/emergencies and to provide humanitarian assistance (Principle 18 of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement). The CPU should be responsible for the coordination of all efforts aimed at protecting and searching for durable solutions for IDPs, initiation, organisation, coordination, implementation of humanitarian assistance under the current living environment where communities do not have any other livelihood activities and are likely to require food assistance for the foreseeable future. ZHRC recommends that the CPU maintains and strengthens its relations with humanitarian agencies to alleviate the Tsholotsho residents’ situation guided by Article 9 (3) of the Kampala Convention. d. ZHRC recognises that the realisation of socio-economic and cultural rights is imperative. On a progressive basis, more schools need to be built and well equipped in Tsholotsho by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, with sound support from the national fiscus. The Government of Zimbabwe expressed its commitment to the objective when it became party to the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of Children, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and at the World Summit for Children. Therefore the construction of up to standard and appropriate schools with adequate furniture and Page 20 of 22