Annex 3: SWOT Analysis Strengths  A clear vision, mission and values  A clear organisational strategy with clear objective developed with stakeholders and communicated to all relevant parties  A clear Governance Charter establishing the internal governance structures of the Commission, and describing how the ZHRC is governed in order to ensure integrity, accountability, relevance, effectiveness, sustainability, and impact.  Duties of the Executive Secretary clearly spelt out in the ZHRC Act Chapter 10:30section 6  Section 6 of the same act allows the Commission to mobilise resources from donor partners  Chapter 243 section of the ZHRC Act gives it autonomy  The ZHRC has vote status in terms of the appropriation Act  Stakeholder engagement and outreach Weaknesses  The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission Act Section 17 stipulates approval of the donor funding affecting the independence of the Commission  Insufficient funds for election monitoring e.g no vehicles and other tools of trade  Inadequate Human Resources leading to overstretching of the existing staff  The ZHRC Act is not aligned to the constitution and aligned to other pieces of legislation  Independence of the Commission not fully guaranteed  Multi reporting requirements from various stakeholders  Lack of a legal department that litigates on behalf of complaints  Limited awareness of the Commission by the general public  No organisation communication strategy and inadequate resources for communications  Lack of a decentralised commission and accessibility  No learning and monitoring framework, still to be developed Opportunities  The citizen is keen to learn and understand human rights  The advancements in information and communications technology could improve the ZHRC’s communication and effectiveness through leveraging social media and the its website  Internal and intra-party conflict has helped to depoliticise the understanding of human rights  Legislative alignment agenda provides an opportunity for the alignment of the ZHRC Act to the Constitution.  Universal review process (peer review in terms of acceptance of certain recommendations)  Informed and supportive CSOs  Robust bill of rights in the constitution  Easy information dissemination through welldeveloped infrastructure  The direct budget vote status, direct negotiation with the Ministry of finance  Development of more sustainable resource mobilisation strategies as opposed to donor funding Threats  Gatekeepers when trying to penetrate into communities such Chiefs and party Stewarts  Religious beliefs can negatively impact participation in elections  Idolisation of leaders and elders at times stifle participation in elections  Apathy, lack of enthusiasm to participant, no motivation to participant in elections  People not interested in elections, fear of electoral processes, election fatigue  Poverty makes people vulnerable to political manipulation  Politicisation of civil servants and traditional leaders  Participation of women in elections, gender roles and patriarchy  Closing of operating space for institutions such the ZHRC  Donor fatigue and possible exodus leading to loss of partners and funding during the current situation  Derailment of the legislative alignment agenda  Reduced budget allocation by treasury  Poor internet connectivity and hacking of information and systems  Invasion/espionage of information  Misinformation fake news especially on social media  Economic uncertainty as a result of political instability leading to increased human rights violations during elections  Crime and other vices increase Figure 6: SWOT Analysis 39 | P a g e