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Report
on National Housing Symposium: Sustainable housing & social
amenities delivery
Tafadzwa
R. Muropa, Swedish Co-oeprative Centre (SCC)
June 08, 2009
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The National
Housing Symposium, 28 May 2009, Mandel Training Centre, Harare,
Zimbabwe: 'Towards an integrated approach to sustainable housing
and social amenities delivery in Zimbabwe'
The purpose
of the National Housing and Social amenities symposium was to energise
the housing stakeholders around a new institutional framework (The
ministry).
The specific
objectives of the symposium focused on:
- Identifying
and reflecting on issues affecting delivery
- Informing
the Ministry on status of delivery
- Inputting
into policy review and formulation
- Broadening
stakeholder participation
- Preparing
for the National Convention due to be held later in the year
Outcomes
- To ensure
that all stakeholders had a broader understanding of housing than
just putting a roof over someone's head, as housing is more
than building houses, but also encompasses the environment and
habitat related matters
- to have
a common understanding of the housing delivery status and share
information
- to address
a number of constraints in relation to housing delivery- addressing
the bottlenecks towards housing delivery
- proposals
around policy related issues articulated
- broadening
the participation of various stakeholders in issues related to
housing delivery
The symposium
was held at Mandel Training Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe, where about
70 participants from the local
government, civil society, the private sector and the donor community
actively took part in the proceedings. The special guests who officially
opened and closed the symposium were the Vice President Mrs Joyce
Mujuru and Mrs Theresa Makone (on behalf of the Prime Minister,
Mr Morgan Tsvangirayi).The Minister of National Housing and Social
Amenities, the Permanent secretary of the National Housing and Social
amenities, senior government officials, UN Habitat, UNDP and World
Bank representatives as well as other representatives from the donor
community were also present at the symposium.
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