Graphic Designer Attachee (Harare)

Security Guards (Harare)

Emergency Room Doctor (Harare)

Nurse Anesthetist (Harare)

Insurance Consultant

Procurement Officer (Harare)

Electronics Technician (Harare)

Transport Manager (Bulawayo)

Trainee Sales Executive (Harare)

Technical Director (Harare)

Warehouse Manager (Harare)

Vice President Finance, Trilogy: Remote (Chitungwiza)

Financial Management and Operations Director (Harare)

Data Analyst (Harare)

Field Security Associate (Harare)

Concrete Plant Technician

Class 1 Driver

Technician/Senior Technician

Laboratory Assistant

Project Officer

Drivers x4

Field Officer (Digital Skills)

Employee and Labour Relations Specialist (Harare)

Investigations Intern: Corporate Center (Harare)

District Strategic Information Officer (Nkayi)

Social Media Executive (Harare)

Senior Loans Officer - Bulawayo Branch

Compliance Manager (Harare)

Refuelling Assistant (Masvingo)

Grants and Compliance Manager (Harare)

Research Technical Assistant (Bulawayo)

Supervisor: Projects

Supervisor: Infrastructure Maintenance

Projects Administrator/Office Manager

Manager: Infrastructure Maintenance

Manager: Projects and Civil Works

Finance Officer Budgeting & Planning

Graduate Trainees

2024 Internship Opportunity

Sales Promoter (Harare)

Accountants x2 (Harare)

Farm Manager

Stores Trainee (Harare)

The United States Government says Zimbabwe’s Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill will affect the ability of faith-based organisations to provide essential services if signed into law in its current form.
The PVOs Bill sailed through the Senate on 1 February 2023 and now awaits President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s assent.
The Bill seeks to regulate the operations of civic groups and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
In a report titled: Zimbabwe 2022 international religious freedom report, the US government said:
<blockquote>
If passed, members of civil society stated, the amendments would require all trusts to register as PVOs, including faith-based organisations with no transitional provisions.
In meetings with the government, embassy officials raised concerns about the likely impacts of the draft PVOs Amendment Bill on faith-based and other NGOs and their ability to provide essential services, if enacted in its current form.
</blockquote>
Among other provisions, the PVO Bill stipulates that NGOs and civic society organisations (CSOs) should disclose their sources of funding.
The organisations are required to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the government defining their activities and zones of geographic coverage.
International NGOs that “digress into programmes that are not specified in the MoU as agreed upon by line ministries and registered by the registrar” will be de-registered.
The Bill gives the government the authority to “deregister any private voluntary organisation that fails to comply with its conditions of registration.” The US report added:
<blockquote>
Religious and civil society groups reported increased government monitoring of public events, prayer rallies, church congregations, and activities of religiously affiliated NGOs perceived to be critical of the government.
NGOs and religious leaders continued to report that security services targeted some religious officials who engaged in political discourse perceived as negative towards the government.
According to faith leaders, intelligence officials asked churches to submit their transcripts or recordings of specific sermons thought to be critical of the government.
</blockquote>
In February this year, Mnangagwa said that he will “speedily” sign into law the Private Voluntary Organisation Bill (PVO) once it reaches his desk.
He said no amount of pressure from foreign governments will stop the signing of the Bill into law.
Critics argue that some provisions of the Bill may serve as the basis for restricting the operation of many NGOs.
More: <a href="https://www.pindula.co.zw/">Pindula News</a>

Pindula News

United States Says PVOs Bill A Threat To NGOs That Provide Essential Services

The Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill now awaits President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s assent to become law after it was passed by the Senate.
The Bill has been criticised by opposition parties and civic groups who argued that it will restrict the democratic space.
The Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum recently said the country could lose about US$1 billion annually if the Bill is signed into law.
The proposed law will reportedly give broad powers to the government to control the operations of civil society organisations (CSOs).
Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs told Senate on Thursday:
<blockquote>
This Bill does not speak to those law-abiding organisations, but those who come in the guise of charity to carry out undesirable harmful and criminal activities.
For instance, we received communication from the Financial Action Taskforce that some charitable trusts are being misused as a means of channelling funds to fund terrorism and other criminal activities.
</blockquote>
ZANU PF senators on Thursday supported the passage of the Bill, saying it was necessary to tame “rogue” NGOs and CSOs.
While opposing the passage of the Bill, MDC Alliance Senator Morgen Komichi urged the government to enact laws that would ensure foreign organisations supporting developmental projects in the country conduct their operations without hindrance. | <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/local-news/article/200006897/senate-passes-pvos-billas-usaid-warns-of-funding-threat">NewsDay</a>

Senate Passes PVOs Amendment Bill

Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister, Paul Mavima, has said the government has not deregistered any Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) operating in the country.
In an interview with the Zimpapers Television Network’s The Chase programme on Thursday night, Mavima said the government has identified and informed 391 NGOs who are non-compliant with the dictates of the Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) Act to regularise their operations.
He said the identified NGOs, whose figure was 450 last year but has come down to 391, still have a chance to regularise their operations before the Government gazettes their deregistration. Said Mavima:
<blockquote>
The list still gives them an opportunity to regularise before we gazette, for now, we haven’t gazetted but soon we will be gazetting.
We have given them a very long rope but once we gazette they will then have to apply afresh to operate.
</blockquote>
He also denied claims that the listing of non-compliant NGOs was done based on the amended PVO Act, saying the process to amend the law has not been completed. Mavima said:
<blockquote>
The new Act’s amendment process has not been completed and a lot of people have been saying there is a draconian action by Government in line with the new Act and we have started to see the implementation of that Act which is going to constrain civil society space.
The Act has always been there and just like in any other country, it provides a criterion for registration for anyone who wants to operate a PVO.
It sets the requirements needed, a management arrangement, provides annual reports to the PVO board, audited financial statements and keeps within the mandate that you said you wanted to operate in and also to confine yourself to the geographical space that you said you want to operate from. This is standard procedure, everywhere.
</blockquote>
Mavima said Zimbabwe has only deregistered two NGOs last year for national security reasons.
He said one of the NGOs had said they wanted to provide services to children and started constructing schools and after that started teaching fundamentalism in those schools.
Mavima also explained that Jairos Jiri Association, which is among the 291 NGOs that were listed, has over the years been unbundled and become a number of organisations offering various services.
He said some of the offshoots have complied while others are now defunct. | <a href="https://www.chronicle.co.zw/minister-clarifies-ngos-deregistration/">Chronicle</a>

"The 391 NGOs Have Not Been Deregistered"

The government has established committees in the country’s districts to monitor non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and ensure that they do not deviate from their mandate.
This was revealed by Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare deputy minister Lovemore Matuke on Thursday while responding to senators who wanted to know why the government was targeting NGOs. Said Matuke:
<blockquote>
What we have done as a ministry is, we have got a committee at the district level, it is an inter-ministerial committee which is at every district and also has the duty to monitor the operations of NGOs.
Every NGO which provides anything to any community has to go through that committee and also when they go out there to give whatever they want to give, they seek approval from our offices.
Those who deviate from their mandate, normally we delist them, but we can only do that when we get reports that this NGO has deviated from its mandate.
Sometimes we get information from the local councillors as to whether the NGOs are following their mandates because I can see your question is that there are NGOs that go out there not to help people, but to do things which are a bit evil in terms of politicising, maybe whatever they will be giving.
If we get knowledge of any of those NGOs, the ministry will not hesitate to delist the NGO from our books so that they will not continue with their operations.
</blockquote>
The Government is currently crafting the Private Voluntary Organisations Amendment Bill which seeks to regulate the operations of NGOs in the country.
Critics say the Bill, which is currently before the National Assembly, will result in employees at civic society organisations losing their jobs and also constrict the democratic space if it is passed in its current form.
However, the Government has defended the Bill, saying will fight money laundering and the financing of terrorism. | <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/local-news/article/200000303/govt-monitors-hostile-ngos">NewsDay</a>

Govt Monitoring Operations Of NGOs

NGOs Latest News

Latest Jobs