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Progressive Zimbabwe: Sustainable growth and transformation
Zimbabwe Institute
September 27, 2007

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The Zimbabwe Institute is launching its economic policy programme named Progressive Zimbabwe. This is a comprehensive programme that seeks to create a dynamic and vibrant economy that will provide jobs, food and economic opportunities for all the people of Zimbabwe.

Put together by a talented multi-disciplinary team of Zimbabweans, Progressive Zimbabwe is rooted in the Social Democratic principles that the Zimbabwe Institute firmly believes in. As such the principles enunciated in Progressive Zimbabwe will succeed under a government that follows a democratic governance path driven by consensus, solidarity and participatory decision making.

Amongst the highlights this programme proposes:

a) A US$10 billion external assistance package which will include:

A US$5, 3billion Humanitarian Crisis and Emergency Programme in the first ten years that will address

(i) the immediate food needs
(ii) implement emergency measures on HIV/Aids crisis
(iii) establishment of new institutions(including Truth Commission and Anti-Corruption Commission) to support a democratic dispensation
(iv) agrarian reform

b) A transformation agenda that includes the establishment of:

(i) A new democratic constitution that will safeguard the rule of law and the protection of the civic, economic and political rights of citizens.
(ii) Participatory governance. This will see the establishment via an Act of Parliament of the Zimbabwe Economic Development Council (ZEDC) as the main consultative body to work closely with Parliament, economic ministries and the Reserve Bank to formulate and supervise the implementation of specific policies and programmes.
(iii)The transformation agenda will also include the rolling out of a more transparent land reform programme that will empower the majority of Zimbabweans, diversify productive activities on the land and significantly increase productivity in the communal areas.
(iv) It also involves the embracing of an anti-corruption ethos that will be driven by the Anti-Corruption Commission.

c) Stabilisation: At the point of transformation a progressive government is inevitably going to need a stabilization and recovery programme. Progressive Zimbabwe addresses this.

This economic programme is part of the Zimbabwe Institute's contribution to the search for comprehensive solutions to resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe. Work on the economic programme and other key areas is ongoing and updates to this programme shall follow in response to the situation on the ground in order to ensure that the programme remains a ready blueprint for a new transformation government in Zimbabwe.

We call on all democratic political parties in Zimbabwe, civil society, SADC, African Union and the international community to consider the key proposals of this programme as an alternative blueprint to the resolution of the crisis in Zimbabwe.

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