The government identified employment creation as a way of reducing poverty. The UN report highlighted that poverty and unemployment, if left unchecked, would compromise basic human rights and constitute a threat to social, economic and political stability. “The ZUNDAF efforts will focus on the unemployed and marginalised young women and men and help them to secure jobs under conditions of equity and freedom,” reads part of the report.
This will be realised through adoption and implementation of pro-poor and gender sensitive employment strategies, policies and programmes. The employment creation strategy will be implemented on three fronts: livelihood stabilisation, local economic recovery for employment creation and income generation and long term employment and inclusive economic growth.
This will be complemented by joint UN efforts to restore the recovery capacity of communities, linking humanitarian and developmental efforts through a multi-sectoral approach.
The Permanent Secretary in the ministry of Economic Planning and Investment Promotion, Desire Sibanda, told a MDG Dialogue at Meikles Hotel in Harare last Thursday that: “Zimbabwe is likely to have met only five or six of the 21 goals by 2015 due to economic challenges faced by the country over the past decade. Zimbabwe’s unemployment rate continues to fluctuate above 80 percent.”
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