Protecting, Promoting and Enforcing Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom Assessment [continued] Further, budgetary constraints have been a major impediment which made it difficult for the ZHRC to recruit new staff nor replace those resigning. Staff of the Commission are demoralized due to poor remuneration, which is often paid very late. For the great part of the year the Commission was suspended from Medical Aid services by CIMAS due to non – payment of subscriptions. The Commission spent the year still negotiating the issue of pension and insurance scheme for staff members as well as making piecemeal remittances of contributions to the national social security fund, NASSA. Also, due to resource constraints, the ZHRC could not decentralize to all provinces as anticipated, let alone to conduct widespread and systematic awareness activities in most parts of the country. Had the budget allowed, more outreaches and dialogues would have been conducted and more IEC materials produced and disseminated. Some planned activities had to be dropped, for example, exhibiting at ZITF and Harare Agricultural Show due to lack of commitment by treasury and funding partners. Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission Annual Report 2015 51