The report seeks to document and provide
qualitative and quantitative insight into specific sectors that are
useful to development specialists, policy analysts, local and
international investors as well as public and private sector decision
makers.

It also aims to provide critical recommendations for Zimbabwe,
looking at it as a country in a transitional process.
“The focus for 2013 has been placed on the land sector in
Zimbabwe. With its political, economic and social centrality in
Zimbabwe, land is not immune from political and bureaucratic
corruption,” read a statement from
TIZ.
The research on illegal land deals, TIZ said, has been prompted by
media reports concerning land corruption such as multiple
farm ownership by the political elite.
Abuse of power by local leaders
in land allocation, said the watchdog, had driven the need to understand the
state of corruption.

Topics to be covered under the TIZ research programme include new
land deals, corruption and land management as well as integrity in
wildlife management.
Under wildlife management, the research acknowledges that corruption
is a major contributing factor to the increase in the number of cases
of poaching in Zimbabwe.
Part of the research’s objectives include assessing the impact of land
and wildlife corruption on the economy of Zimbabwe. The research will
assess mechanisms in place to curb and mitigate the risk of corruption
in land and wildlife sector in Zimbabwe while making recommendations
on how to deal with the two issues.
The research will be done using data collected from the urban areas of
Harare, Bulawayo, Mutare and Chegutu as well as the rural settings of
Chiweshe, Masvingo and Tsholotsho.

Resettlement areas in Chegutu, Masvingo, Matabeleland and Mutare will
be covered under the study as well.

With regards to the issue of wildlife management, the research will
focus on areas such as Save, Bubiana and Hwange.
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