Zimbabwe

Currency: Zimbabwean dollar (ZWD)

Timezone: Central Africa Time (UTC+2)

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Botswana on the west, Zambia on the north, Mozambique on the east, and South Africa on the south. Zimbabwe was formerly known as Southern Rhodesia (1898), Rhodesia (1964), and Zimbabwe Rhodesia (1979).

On 18 April 1980, Britain formally granted independence to Zimbabwe at a ceremony in Harare, the country’s capital city. The country, which covers a land area of 386,850 square kilometres, has a population of 14.6 million people who are majorly Christians and related to the two major Bantu-speaking groups, the Shona and the Ndebele. Zimbabwe dollar (ZWL) is the official currency of the country. Although Zimbabwe has sixteen official languages, English is widely used in business and the usual language of instruction in school. The service is the main sector of the economy and contributes about 61.3% to the country’s GDP, while the agriculture sector accounts for approximately 66.19% of the total employment. The countries’ main Exports include gold, raw tobacco, ferroalloys, nickel ore, and diamonds.

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Zimbabwe Medium Term Plan 2011-2015

Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Zimbabwe

The main goal of this plan is to transform the economy, reduce poverty, create jobs, maintain macro economic stability and restore the economy’s capacity to produce goods and services competitively.

Zimbabwe • 2011 • National Development

Short Term Emergency Recovery Programme (STERP)

Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Zimbabwe

Short Term Emergency Recovery Programme (STERP) is an emergency short term stabilisation programme, whose key goals are to stabilise the macro and micro-economy, recover the levels of savings, investment and growth, and lay the basis...

Zimbabwe • 2009 • National Development

National AIDS Council, NAC Gender Policy, 2008, 19 pp.

Zimbabwe

The gender policy for the NAC provides a framework within which institutional policies, strategies and programs mainstream gender and women’s empowerment into the national response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic.

Zimbabwe • 2008 • Gender and Human Rights

The Environment Management Act (Hazardous Waste Management) Regulations, 2007

Ministry of Agriculture, Zimbabwe

These Regulations are made under the Environmental Management Act. They provide regulations on how to protect water source areas and other sensitive areas. To prevent pollution of water by hazardous waste, it emphasises that no...

Zimbabwe • 2007 • Agriculture and Rural Development

EU - The Interim Economic Partnership Agreement (iEPA)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs & International Trade, Zimbabwe

The Interim Agreement contains provisions concerning rules of origin, development cooperation, fisheries, trade defence instruments and dispute settlement.

Zimbabwe • 2007 • Trade, Industry and Investment

The National Biotechnology Authority Act

Ministry of Agriculture, Zimbabwe

An Act to establish the National Biotechnology Authority whose function shall be to support and manage biotechnology research, development and application; to provide for the constitution of a board of the Authority; to provide for...

Zimbabwe • 2006 • Agriculture and Rural Development

Acquisition of Farm Equipment and Material Act

Ministry of Agriculture, Zimbabwe

An Act to provide for the acquisition of farm equipment or material not being used for agricultural purposes; to amend section 5 of the Land Acquisition Act [Chapter 20:10]; and to provide for matters connected...

Zimbabwe • 2004 • Agriculture and Rural Development