13. RECOMMENDATIONS following leading to violations of prisoners’ and patients’ rights. 13.1. The Government of Zimbabwe should take advantage of the UPR process by seriously considering recommendations from participating peer states with a view to addressing most of them. Further, as far as possible, sincerely implement these recommendations for the improvement and enjoyment of human rights by the citizens of Zimbabwe. 13.6. The Government of Zimbabwe, in particular the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC), and Local Authorities should ensure effective service delivery in essential sectors like education, health, food security, and infrastructure development. Citizens are suffering while public officials appointed to these mandate areas have failed to come up with meaningful solutions to fast deteriorating living conditions. The ZHRC makes recommendations; the 13.2. The Government of Zimbabwe should submit all outstanding State Party Reports to the various Treaty Bodies. 13.3. The Government of Zimbabwe should take all necessary measures to ensure that fundamental human rights and freedoms, enshrined in the Constitution, are fully respected and implemented. 13.4. The Ministry of Justice Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Parliament of Zimbabwe and respective line Ministries promptly align legislation to the Constitution, taking into account the fundamental human rights and freedoms in the Declaration of Rights, so as to enhance the enjoyment of human rights by all the people of Zimbabwe. 13.5. Treasury should to take all necessary measures to ensure that prisons and mental hospitals are adequately resourced in terms of human and financial resources. This comes after the monitoring visits which have shown that most prisons and mental health institutions are under-resourced 13.7. The Government of Zimbabwe, in particular Treasury Authorities, should support the ZHRC through resourcing of the decentralisation efforts so that the Commission is easily accessible. 13.8. The capacity of the ZHRC should be enhanced through unfreezing of existing posts as well as authority to appoint staff members for the added Public Protector mandate of the Commission. The appeal is for the Treasury Authorities to reconsider the blanket freeze that is now crippling operations of new institutions like the ZHRC. 13.9. The Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs and indeed all Parliamentarians and relevant stakeholders should strengthen the human rights enforcement capacity of the ZHRC by ensuring that the enabling legislation provides for execution of the Commission’s decisions and recommendations. Protecting, Promoting and Enforcing Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms 47