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ZERO Regional Environment Organization
| Region: | Southern Africa | |
| Country: | Zimbabwe | |
| Contact Details: | 158 Fife Avenue, Greenwood Park |
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| Description: | ZERO Regional Environment Organzation, is a non-governmental organization (NGO), established in 1987 aimed at making strategic conributions towards equitable distribution and effective management of land and land-based resources within Southern Africa. Its more specific goal is to infom the process of formulating and implementing land policies that are sensitive to the needs of disadvataged rural communities, paying particular attention to women. |
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| Coalition Programme Activities: | Member of the International Land Coalition 2003 Community Empowerment Facility |
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| Aims and Objectives: | To influence change and development for rural communities with respect to land issues, ZERO uses specific strategies such as: applied research, participatory policy advocacy, capacity building, information sharing and networking, and building collaboration and partnerships among various stakeholders. |
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| Programmes and Activities | Knowledge generation from civil-society organizations. The recent squatting or invasions of large scale commercial farms in Zimbabwe over the last few years and the traditional focus of government’s top-down land reform policies have highlighted the need to conduct in-depth research and information gathering from these squatter communities to obtain a better picture and understanding of the situation. ZERO has contributed to this task of determining the key issues surrounding these spontaneous movements as well as generating information on interventions by civil-society organizations in these land reform processes.
Lobby and advocacy for agrarian reform and sustainable development. ZERO has been active in its advocacy not only on agrarian reform issues but also on environmental policy and decision making at regional and international levels, including the conventions on desertification, climate change and biodiversity. Furthermore, ZERO advances well-argued sustainable development options for rural communities such as renewable energy, improved local natural resources management. Documentation and information dissemination. As the organization has identified land policy information sharing as its particular niche, it has produced critical and illustrative documents on the current land and tenure situation, adding to the pool of knowledge on land reform from which all can draw lessons and best practices. Capacity building of civil-society organizations for agrarian reform advocacy. ZERO has also organized various workshops and meetings for the exchange of ideas which has resulted in a better informed and stronger civil society able to lobby and advocate for more meaningful land reforms and their sustained implementation. |
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| Target Groups | Rural communities |
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| Focus | Lobby and advocacy for agrarian reform |
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