Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP)

About us

The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) is a human rights organisation that monitors and documents politically motivated human rights violations in Zimbabwe. It was established in 2000 by Zimbabwean church based and human rights organisations.
The main objective of ZPP is building peace and promoting the peaceful transformation of disputes and conflicts in communities through, among many strategies, the monitoring and documentation of human rights abuses..

ZPP envisions a Zimbabwe where there is peace, justice, dignity and development for all.

Its mission is to work for sustainable peace through monitoring, documentation, advocacy and community peace building interventions alongside its members and partners.

ZPP lists its core values as:
• Respect for human and women’s rights
• Respect and tolerance for diversity
• Justice and public accountability
• Commitment to the vulnerable and marginalised

What we do
• Over the years, ZPP has produced timely national monthly monitoring reports on violence and human rights abuses which have been circulated to more than 3 000 stakeholders. The demand for these reports has continued to grow with the reports now being packaged to meet the various demands of various recipients, who include academics, researchers, writers, politicians and casual readers.
• The organisation has been a referral centre for many victims of human rights abuses in the country, and to this end, its director and staff have been arrested, abducted and imprisoned countless times. ZPP uses a unique system to monitor and document politically motivated human rights abuses. With the assistance of its cooperating partners ZPP works with community based monitors who live in the constituencies for which they monitor and document. ZPP has deployed two monitors in each of the 210 electoral constituencies in Zimbabwe.
• Campaigns: ZPP developed and launched the Social, Political, Economic, Civil and Cultural human rights mobile application (SPECC). The SPECC application is a mobile application on android platform, for now, which enables citizens to report social, political, economic, civil and cultural human rights violations, anonymously if they so choose. ZPP also launched the #ResistReportRejectViolence (#RRRV2023) campaign which urges citizens to resist, report and reject violence ahead of the 2023 elections. The campaign is specifically designed as an early warning system of political violence with the view that relevant agents can adopt preventive measures. The #RRRV2023 separates politically motivated human rights violations from all other forms of violations and using a highly sophisticated data analysis tool, ZPP maps the severity of the violations to give an indication of the political volatility of each province.
• Assistance to Victims of Human Rights Violations: 2322 victims of human rights violations were assisted through referrals to various partners and service providers. These service partners include Counselling Services Unit, Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission, Justice for Children’s Trust, Musasa Project among others. Child rescue missions were conducted in Chiredzi, where community ambassadors intervened to rescue young girls who had been forced into entering marriage whilst below the age of 18. Seven girls were rescued during the year. ZPP assisted 240 families in Maganga, Marondera with non-food and food items. The families were evicted by Hunyani Timbers following a long-standing dispute between the company and the villagers.
• Advocacy & Networking
• Capacity Development: ZPP trained 315 human rights monitors from across the country to monitor and document human rights violations in the communities in which they live. The topics included information gathering, verification and triangulation as well as photography and the use of online platforms to disseminate information.

Jestina Mukoko is the National Director of Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP).

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.