Interparty Dialogue Platform   

 

Since inception on 11 November 2002, Zimbabwe Institute has conducted programming to facilitate dialogue among Zimbabwe's political parties. Following the disputed elections of 2008, Zimbabwe Institute provided support to the mediating role between the contesting parties to enable dialogue which eventually led to the resolution of the impasse through the signing of the Global Political Agreement and the establishment of a Government of National Unity.

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Subsequently, Zimbabwe Institute was tasked to the Secretariat of the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee, JOMIC, in 2009, which operated in Zimbabwe's ten provinces. JOMIC was set up to facilitate policy tracking and implementation throughout the tenure of the Government of National Unity with a specific mandate to monitor implementation of the GPA.

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Following the JOMIC platform, ZI continued to facilitate Inter-Party Dialogue under the name, Zimbabwe Political Parties Dialogue, (ZPPD), working with the three political parties with representation in Parliament, namely, Movement for Democratic Change, MDC-T (led by Morgan Tsvangirai), its small splinter group, the Movement for Democratic Change, MDC-M, (led by Arthur Mutambara), and the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (led by Robert Mugabe). Through consistent, interactive and collaborative work on the ZPPD, the parties developed a Code of Conduct for Political Parties, Candidates and other Stakeholders, a major achievement of the dialogue process,  which was promulgated into law as the Fourth Schedule in the Electoral Act, on 28 May 2018 and was officially launched the same year at a national event attended by regional and international delegates. As an expression of their desire for consensus based approaches, the political parties agreed to launch the Peace Pledge as a symbol of peace in upcoming elections beginning with the 2018 harmonised elections. 

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