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Internally Displaced People in Zimbabw e 19 September 2008 w w w .internal-displacement.org 1 Agreement betw een ZANU-P -PF and MDC, 15 Sep 2008 Article XVIII: The parties are gravely concerned by the displacement of scores of people

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Internally Displaced People in Zimbabw e

19 September 2008

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Agreement betw een ZANU-P

PF and MDC, 15 Sep 2008

Article XVIII:

The parties are “gravely concerned by the

displacement of scores of people after the election of March 29, 2008 as a result of politically motivated violence”

The parties agree “to work together to

ensure the safety of any displaced persons, their safe return home and their enjoyment of the full protection of the law.”

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Displacement caused by 2008 political violence Scale of displacement crisis:

MDC: 200,000 displaced people
UN: 36,000 displaced people

Zimbabwe Peace Project (July 2008):

New cases of displacement after the June

elections

Returnees are forced to pay a fine, “returnee’s

fee” ( or “protection fee”, “registration fee”, “acceptance/clearance fee”) or perform community service

Agreement betw een ZANU-P

PF and MDC, 15 Sep 2008

Article XVI:

“In times of need, every Zimbabwean regardless
f race, ethnicity, gender, political affiliation and

religion is entitled to request and receive humanitarian and food assistance from the State.”

“In this regard the Parties hereby agree […] that

all displaced persons shall be entitled to humanitarian and food assistance to enable them to return and settle in their original homes and that social welfare organisations shall be allowed to render such assistance as might be required.”

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Humanitarian crisis in Zimbabw e

Life expectancy: 34 years (2005)

(was 61 years during the early 1990s)

HIV/AIDS prevalence rate: 15.3%

(5th highest in the world)

1 million AIDS orphans (UNICEF)

Food deficits

FAO/WFP (June 2008):

2008: cereal deficit of 1.4 million MT
People dependent on food aid:
Jul-Sep 2008: 2 million people
Oct-Dec 2008: 3.8 million people
Jan-Mar 2009: 5.1 million people

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UNICEF, Zimbabw e donor update, June 2007: : “The most acute humanitarian needs include those of populations affected by serious food insecurity, HIV and cholera

utbreaks as well as those displaced during

the fast-track land reform programme, Operation Murambatsvina (OM) and more recent re-evictions.”

IDPs in Zimbabw e

Former farm workers: victims of fast-track land

reform programme (since 2000; ongoing)

Beneficiaries of land reform programme who

have since been evicted again (more recent)

Victims of Operation Murambatsvina (May-July

2005; smaller-scale evictions ongoing)

Victims of Operation Chikorokoza Chapera

(Nov 2006 – Jan 2007)

Politically motivated evictions (2008)

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Scale of the displacement crisis

Operation Murambatsvina (2005): 570,000

people made homeless

Farm workers: 2 million people in 2000

(including seasonal workers and families)

< 2% have benefited from land reform

programme

10% still employed on the farms
25-30% “displaced-in-place”

“Floating population” of displaced people who have not been able to settle anywhere permanently

ZimVAC (June 2007):

8% of sampled population said they had been “asked to move” in the past five years ⇒ 1 million forcibly displaced people? Multiple displacements

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Lack of Durable Solutions

“Invisibly displaced”: urban overcrowding
Homeless people in urban areas
New illegal structures in urban areas
Squatters on government land
Squatters on farms (“displaced-in-place”)
Lack of tenure for beneficiaries of land

Internally Displaced People in Zimbabw e

Agreement betw een ZANU-P

Article XVIII:

displacement of scores of people after the election of March 29, 2008 as a result of politically motivated violence”

ensure the safety of any displaced persons, their safe return home and their enjoyment of the full protection of the law.”

Displacement caused by 2008 political violence Scale of displacement crisis:

Zimbabwe Peace Project (July 2008):

elections

fee” ( or “protection fee”, “registration fee”, “acceptance/clearance fee”) or perform community service

Agreement betw een ZANU-P

Article XVI:

religion is entitled to request and receive humanitarian and food assistance from the State.”

all displaced persons shall be entitled to humanitarian and food assistance to enable them to return and settle in their original homes and that social welfare organisations shall be allowed to render such assistance as might be required.”

Humanitarian crisis in Zimbabw e

(was 61 years during the early 1990s)

(5th highest in the world)

Food deficits

FAO/WFP (June 2008):

UNICEF, Zimbabw e donor update, June 2007: : “The most acute humanitarian needs include those of populations affected by serious food insecurity, HIV and cholera

the fast-track land reform programme, Operation Murambatsvina (OM) and more recent re-evictions.”

IDPs in Zimbabw e

reform programme (since 2000; ongoing)

have since been evicted again (more recent)

2005; smaller-scale evictions ongoing)

(Nov 2006 – Jan 2007)

Scale of the displacement crisis

Operation Murambatsvina (2005): 570,000

people made homeless

Farm workers: 2 million people in 2000

(including seasonal workers and families)

programme

“Floating population” of displaced people who have not been able to settle anywhere permanently

ZimVAC (June 2007):

8% of sampled population said they had been “asked to move” in the past five years ⇒ 1 million forcibly displaced people? Multiple displacements

Lack of Durable Solutions

reform programme ⇒ risk of new displacement / evictions