9. ZEC must consider limited financial disincentives for stakeholders to participate in electoral
process like high accreditation fees for observers and monitors.
10. ZEC must consider recruiting election officials not just from government departments and the civil
service but also the highly literate and readily mobilisable and trainable community of students in
tertiary institutions.
11. The ZEC should continuously provide updated, disaggregated data on the voter registrants on its
website, in a timely manner.
12. ZEC must consider establishing more registration centres in large urban centres as Harare and
Bulawayo for the continuous registration exercise to increase the numbers of registered voters as
the data indicates the lowest registration turnouts in these provinces.
13. There is need for the ZEC and CSOs to amplify its voter education efforts particularly in Harare and
Bulawayo since these provinces have the lowest proportions of registered voters.
14. There is need to increase mobilization efforts targeting groups that have, so far, recorded low
voter registration. These include the newly turned 18 (18-19), men and those aged 50 and above.
15. Civil Society must complement ZECs efforts in the mobilization of potential registrants in the
continuous BVR exercises ongoing at ZEC district offices.
16. ZEC must increase polling stations in constituencies with higher numbers of registered voters’ to
ensure that voters’ are not disenfranchised on Election Day.
OTHER STAKEHOLDERS
1. Government and political parties must allow ZEC to operate independently and impartially
without undue political interference.
2. The Government must avail adequate resources to the ZEC for the completion of other voter
registration processes such as deduplication, inspection, final cleaning of the voters roll as well
as its certification among other essential electoral processes.
3. National and Community leaders like traditional chiefs and other local authorities must desist
from interfering with the integrity of electoral process through coercion, misinformation and
harassment of the electorate.
4. Political parties must ensure the prevalence of a conducive electoral environment through
desisting from and encouraging their supporters not to engage in political violence, intimidation
and harassment of the electorate.
5. Civil Society must enhance the quality and execution of their voter education and mobilisation
activities to be inclusive especially of traditionally marginalised groups like women, youth and
people living with disabilities.
6. Constitutional commissions with roles in electoral processes must act timely to investigate and
stem electoral corruption, violence and intimidation.
7. Police must conduct their constitutional roles and roles in electoral processes professionally and
without favour, including stemming impunity on political violence, intimidation and harassment.
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