We work to transform the ways in which societies deal with conflict - away from adversarial approach
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Formed in 2002 as the Coalition on Conflict Management Trust, the organisation transformed into the Centre for Conflict Management and Transformation (CCMT) in 2003. We work to transform the ways in which societies deal with conflict - away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving. Using a multi-faceted approach, we partner with local government, civil society and comm
unities to find culturally appropriate means to strengthen societies' capacity to deal with conflicts constructively. The nature and scope of our work has evolved over the years as we continue to grow and develop as an organisation. In 2007, CCMT was involved in the setting up of Community Associations dealing with every day conflicts affecting communities in Zimbabwe. Today, the associations operate independently of CCMT whilst maintaining close linkages and sharing of expertise. We also conduct interventions which see us partnering and working with Zimbabwean communities at all levels, from the grassroots right through to community leaders and local government. As a learning organisation, we aim to ensure that all aspects of our work are informed by research and are currently working to develop and strengthen our research focus.
Despite the importance of water access in Irrigation Schemes, women are often excluded from the decision-making processes which include rules on water usage. This can lead to conflict between men and women because women may feel that their interests are not being represented, and they may be less likely to support the irrigation scheme resulting in low agricultural output and inefficiencies.
As the 2023 Harmonised Elections approach, it is important that we do not allow our political differences to separate us. Let us unite as one nation and prioritize peace in this election. This is an opportunity for us to find common ground and prioritize peace and unity instead of conflict and division. We are all on the same team and should work together to build a better future for our country. The election is a time for us to come together, not tear each other apart. Let us celebrate our democracy and choose our leaders peacefully.
Women's engagement in irrigation systems may be made more effective and long-lasting if gender equality is promoted and women are given equal access to productive resources.
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Conflicts arise in irrigation schemes because they bring together people from different backgrounds, each with own set of social norms, values, goals, priorities, and expectations. The ability to manage and resolve disagreements is crucial in such an environment for the sustainability of the irrigation scheme.
The IS management model is frequently misunderstood, leading to disagreements between farmers and other stakeholders about who is responsible and accountable for what inside the ISs. Sensitization on the new management model is required to ensure that key stakeholders comprehend their intended roles and responsibilities. This minimises conflicts that affect the functionality and productivity of the irrigation schemes.
A significant source of conflict in ISs is the lack of awareness and understanding of land tenure and land use rights, which results in rivalry amongst farmers over land-plot claims and land use rights. Clarity on land tenure and land-user rights is necessary in ISs to minimise and pre-empt conflicts that hinder productivity.
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The absence of good governance may lead to power being concentrated in the hands of a few. This therefore implies that the exclusion of marginalized groups such as women and youth from participating in decision making processes leads to unequal distribution of resources. Inclusive decision making enables Irrigation Schemes to make better decisions, increase sense of ownership, improve sustainability, and ultimately reduce conflicts.
Brot für die WeltPeace Building Network of ZimbabweWomen and Land in ZimbabweWomen and Law in Southern Africa - ZimbabweXavier MudangweZimbabwe Environmental Law AssociationFood and Agriculture Organization Zilan Trust International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Smallholder Irrigation Revitalisation Programme -SIRP World Food Programme Women and Law in Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Women and Land in Zimbabwe International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) Barefoot Education for Afrika Trust Catholic Relief Services Christian Aid American Friends Service Committee Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa - FARA African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS)
Lack of transparency and accountability in the administration of irrigation schemes by IMC`s makes it difficult to oversee the allocation and utilization of the already scarce resources. Because of this, trust and confidence is eroded, conflicts are generated, all of which negatively impact the scheme`s performance in all respects.
Brot für die Welt Peace Building Network of Zimbabwe Peace Direct Barefoot Education for Afrika Trust Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa - FARA Food and Agriculture Organization UNICEF UN Women United Nations Development Programme - UNDP Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association Zilan Trust International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Smallholder Irrigation Revitalisation Programme -SIRP Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) World Food Programme Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa - FARA Oxfam Women and Law in Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Women and Land in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Women Lawyers Association Zimcodd Centre for Natural Resource Governance Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development Zim Catholic Relief Services Norwegian People's Aid Christian Aid Xavier Mudangwe American Friends Service Committee
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Favouritism in gaining access to inputs, water, and land are just a few examples of how a lack of strong governance in Irrigation Schemes may lead to inequitable access to resources. As a result, farmers may suffer, conflicts are triggered, farmers are demotivated, and overall productivity is reduced.
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Women in agriculture should be on the forefront of irrigation schemes' leadership and should play pivotal roles in conflict management to increase food productivity and eradicate hunger and poverty.
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The ultimate success of irrigation schemes is dependent on having functional leadership and a platform for women to air out their views in decision making processes.
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Constructive conflict management and functional governance structures are some of the key factors that increase productivity and in consequence food security and nutrition.
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Low production is a result of conflicts in irrigation schemes. Poor conflict management can derail progress at all levels of production. There is need to manage conflict constructively through sustained dialogue with all stakeholders involved
Unclear roles and responsibilities among irrigation schemes' stakeholders can result in low production and ultimately cause food insecurity and low income. Dialogue is key in irrigation schemes for sustainable agriculture and food security.
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Conflicts in agriculture are the major impediments to productivity in irrigation schemes. More often than not, stakeholders in the schemes have limited skills and knowledge on how to deal with the conflicts that hinder productivity.CCMT is supporting irrigation schemes by building their capacity in conflict resolution, management and transformation.
Unlearning gender biases in the agriculture sector is important for sustainable economic development. CCMT is redefining the role of women in agriculture. Women contributions are as crucial as any other group, so they should play a greater part in decision making for the realization of economic development.
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Position: Project Officer
Application Deadline: 31/03/23
Starting Date: 01/05/23
Background:
The Centre for Conflict Management and Transformation (CCMT) is a Non-Governmental Organisation based in Harare. We work to transform the ways in which our society deals with conflict - away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem-solving.
Purpose:
The Project Officer is responsible for designing and implementing high-quality field activities that contribute to the expected results of a project focusing on conflicts related to development-induced displacements, informal settlements and natural resources. The Project Officer will develop constructive relationships with stakeholders and beneficiaries, facilitate workshops and dialogues, and support project monitoring and evaluation through writing reports and collecting relevant data. The Project Officer will further ensure that project expenditure for activities in the field is administered and documented in compliance with the organisation’s policies and procedures and funding requirements, as advised.
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
- Plan, design and implement field activities based on implementation plans and budgets and ensure the contribution of activities to project results as outlined in results frameworks.
- Design conflict management and advocacy interventions and conduct and facilitate meetings, workshops, trainings, dialogues, planning and review sessions etc. based on the organisation’s working approaches and participatory methods.
- Prepare and process activity plans, reports, budgets, requisition forms and acquittals in a timely and accurate manner.
- Administer and document all project expenses in the field according to the organisation’s policies and procedures and donor requirements.
- Mobilize stakeholders, beneficiaries and participants and organise the logistics for activities as outlined in activity plans.
- Plan, review, report and document activities in accordance with the organisation’s M&E requirements and maintain high-quality of documentation.
- Regularly monitor contextual developments and support M&E staff in collecting relevant data and information.
- Support organisational learning, information exchange and capacity building, and supervise and train assigned project assistants or interns.
- Provide and compile relevant project information for communications purposes and support media engagements.
- Support the writing of project reports and prepare and present reports for internal reviews as well as meetings with funding partners and project stakeholders.
- Professionally present CCMT to all external stakeholders and adhere to safety and security protocols and organisational codes of conduct.
Requirements (Qualification, Experience and Skills):
- University degree in Social Sciences, Political Sciences, Development Studies, Conflict/Peace Studies or other relevant fields from a reputable institution
- At least 5 years of relevant work experience
- Knowledge and experience in conflict management, local governance and/or natural resource governance are an added advantage
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills and good writing and reporting skills
- Attention to detail, diligence, integrity and good team player
- Strong time-management skills and ability to pro-actively set targets and self-organise work
- Driver’s License and willingness to regularly travel to the Midlands Province
- Well spoken and written English, proficiency in chiShona and/or isiNdebele
If you are interested to work in a small team of dedicated colleagues and have the necessary qualification, experience and attitude, we are looking forward to receiving your CV and application letter via email by 31st March. In your application letter please outline your motivation and the special attributes, skills or work experiences which distinguish you from other applicants. Credible references are essential. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Kindly email your application to [email protected]
CCMT joins the world in celebrating International Women's Day 2023. We believe that it is everyone's responsibility to create a world in which we celebrate women and their contribution to global development.
Bread for the World Weltfriedensdienst CAFOD CCJP Bulawayo Silveira House, Jesuit Social Justice & Development Centre Tree of Life Trust Peace Direct Community Alliance for Human Settlements in Zimbabwe CCJP-Harare
Xavier Mudangwe Blessing Mutoro
Scenes from the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signing ceremony where the Mberengwa Rural District Council (MRDC) and the Vanguard community entered into an official agreement to regularise the settlement which will enable the Vanguard community to have the security of tenure and service delivery for the residents of Vanguard.
CCMT has been facilitating dialogue between Mberengwa Rural District Council and the Vanguard community over the regularisation of the settlement since 2021. The process led to the improved relationship between the Vanguard community and MRDC and the development of an MOA that was officially signed last Friday (24.02.2023). The MoA outlines a clear roadmap on how the parties will work together on regularizing and upgrading the settlement.
We are excited about this development because it is a win-win situation that will enable the LA to facilitate development in the community, leading to improved security of tenure, access to services and, consequently, the quality of life for the residents of Vanguard. We believe that this agreement can become a model for the regularisation of other informal settlements in mining areas in line with the Government of Zimbabwe’s NDS1 goal of creating a prosperous and empowered upper-middle-income society by 2030.
Position: Project Officer (Part-Time 50%)
Application Deadline: 03/02/23
Starting Date: 13/02/23
Background:
The Centre for Conflict Management and Transformation (CCMT) is a Non-Governmental Organisation based in Harare. We work to transform the ways in which our society deals with conflict - away from adversarial approaches and towards collaborative problem solving.
Purpose:
The Project Officer is responsible for designing and implementing high quality field activities that contribute to the expected results of a project focusing on youth and women participation in peace-building initiatives. The Project Officer will develop constructive relationships with stakeholders and beneficiaries, facilitate workshops and capacity development, and support project monitoring and evaluation through writing reports and collecting relevant data. The Project Officer will further ensure that project expenditure for activities in the field is administered and documented in compliance with the organisation’s policies and procedures and funding requirements, as advised. This position is a part-time position (50%, 20 work hours per week).
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
- Plan, design and implement field activities based on implementation plans and budgets and ensure contribution of activities to project results as outlined in results frameworks.
- Design conflict management and advocacy interventions and conduct and facilitate meetings, workshops, trainings, dialogues, planning and review sessions etc. based on the organisation’s working approaches and participatory methods.
- Prepare and process activity plans, reports, budgets, requisition forms and reconciliations in a timely and accurate manner.
- Administer and document all project expenses in the field according to the organisation’s policies and procedures and donor requirements.
- Mobilize stakeholders, beneficiaries and participants and organise the logistics for activities as outlined in activity plans.
- Plan, review, report and document activities in accordance with the organisation’s M&E requirements and maintain high quality of documentation.
- Regularly monitor contextual developments and support M&E staff in collecting relevant data and information.
- Support organisational learning, information exchange and capacity building, and supervise and train assigned project assistants or interns.
- Provide and compile relevant project information for communications purposes and support media engagements.
- Support the writing of project reports and prepare and present reports for internal reviews as well as meetings with funding partners and project stakeholders.
- Present CCMT in a professional manner to all external stakeholders and adhere to safety and security protocols and organisational codes of conduct.
Requirements (Qualification, Experience and Skills):
- University degree in Social Sciences, Development Studies, Conflict/Peace Studies or other relevant fields from a reputable institution
- At least 3 years relevant work experience
- Knowledge and experience in conflict management and gender/youth mainstreaming are an added advantage
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills and good writing and reporting skills
- Attention to detail, diligence, integrity and good team player
- Strong time-management skills and ability to pro-actively set targets and self-organise work
- Driver’s License and willingness to regularly travel
- Well spoken and written English, proficiency in chiShona and/or isiNdebele
If you are interested to work in a small team of dedicated colleagues and have the necessary qualification, experience and attitude, we are looking forward to receiving your CV and application letter via email by 3rd February. In your application letter please outline your motivation and the special attributes, skills or work experiences which distinguish you from other applicants. Credible references are essential. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Kindly email your application to [email protected]
We wish to share that Francis Mukora is leaving the Centre for Conflict Management & Transformation - CCMT
end of this month, 31 December 2022.
We want to take this opportunity to thank him for the hard work, commitment & contribution to the organisation in his role as Advocacy, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (MEAL) Officer during his time here at Centre for Conflict Management & Transformation - CCMT. We wish him the best in his future endeavours.
In case you missed our dialogue with Zimbabwe's Minister of National Housing and Social Amenities, Hon. Daniel Garwe, you can watch it here on our YouTube channel;
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rJdcr1gfcR4&t=2422s
We discussed Urban Renewal, Regularizing and Upgrading of informal settlements as well as service provision.
We also discussed how to deal with conflicts inspired by urban expansion as well as Relocations as the ideal alternative to Demolitions and Displacements!
ZTN, The Chase, 10/11/2022Guests: Hon. Daniel Garwe (Minister of National Housing and Social Amenities) & Francis Mukora (CCMT)
At the Centre for Conflict Management & Transformation - CCMT Learning and Networking is part of our Culture.
Over the past two days, our Advocacy Officer Francis Mukora was participating at the Land Summit organized by ZILAN sharing experiences & lessons from our work in Gokwe, Mberengwa and Vungu districts in the Midlands and ideas on how to strengthen secure land tenure for communities facing evictions by development projects
As the CCMT, we empower communities with knowledge and skills to enhance productivity in Irrigation Schemes (IS).
At Biri Extension Irrigation Scheme in Mberengwa District, Midlands province, we helped farmers to come up with a constitution to professionalize their operations.
We also equipped them with knowledge and skills that they are using to produce the quality crops (maize and paprika) in the pictures below.
And lastly, using the technological knowhow from our program, they also invented solar driers to reduce post-harvest losses.
Ultimately these, our interventions are boosting self-sufficiency in food and nutritional security and increasing income generation at household levels.
This past Tuesday 15 November 2022 the United Nations reported that the World Population had reached 8 BILLION people, meaning that the demand for food is increasing by the day.
As the Centre for Conflict Management & Transformation - CCMT, we are ready and we continue our work helping communities around the country to fight hunger and be food and nutritionally secure in line with UN Sustainable Development Goal #2 on ZERO HUNGER.
In the Midlands province and across the country we do so by helping resolve conflicts in Irrigation Schemes, helping them come up with constitutions, adopt good business practices and training them on good agricultural practices to boost productivity, food and nutritional security as well boost income generation.
See below in pictures, our Project Assistant Blessing Mutoro currently at Mutorahuku, one of the Irrigation Schemes we work with in the Midlands province, inspecting maize crop that is due for harvesting in a few weeks time.
Join us tonight, Thursday, on ZTNPrime on DSTV Channel 294, with National Housing Minister, Hon. Daniel Garwe and Urban Planning Specialist, Trymore Muderere as we discuss "The New Capital City: The Battle for Urban Renewal". We will also explore "What the conflict potential of Urban Renewal, Land Acquisition for urban expansion & In-situ Regularization of informal settlements is & how to mitigate the conflicts that arises from the need to balance national development and protection of the rights of citizens already occupying and utilizing such land as places of habitual residence and for livelihoods"
In the Midlands province and across the country, we train Irrigation Schemes members-that is farmers and service providers such as agricultural extension officers on how to effectively resolve conflicts in order to increase functionality and productivity in the schemes.
See below two farmers and Agriculture Extension Officers demonstrate the Multi-Perspective Tool; one of the several tools we to use explain the importance of Sustainable Dialogue in resolving conflicts of any nature.
Multi-Perspective Tool, is a game that illustrates that even though both farmers and Extension Officers may have different views, skills and ideas regarding farming, these differences should not be causes for conflicts. Rather, these differences should be harmonized and consolidated in order to strengthen the functionality of their irrigation schemes and improve productivity levels and
ultimately improve food and nutritional security as well as income generation!
"We create platforms..."
Listen to our Coordinator sum up what we do everyday as the CCMT and also as the Secretariat of the Peace Building Network of Zimbabwe (PBNZ), working with communities and authorities to resolve conflicts, promote peace and sustainable develepoment and productivity in informal settlements and irrigation schemes in the Midlands province and across the country.
Watch Mr. Chrispen Maseva dialogue with us on Development Induced Displacements (DIDs) by Infrastructure Development projects https://youtube.com/watch?v=vr6p8JMHXIw
Based on his vast experience working with multilateral financial institutions financing development projects in Zimbabwe and across Africa, Mr. Maseva observes that "the problem is that most project budgets and funding only covers the actual cost of construction of infrastructure without taking into consideration the cost of processes such as relocation and compensation of affected communities"
He then calls for inclusive profit sharing schemes as "We can't call it development if local people are left poorer than they were before the project"
Watch and do not forget to subscribe to our YouTube Channel CCMT Zimbabwe
Download CCMT's book on "Development-Induced Displacements in Zimbabwe - Learning from Colonial and Post-Colonial Experiences": http://www.ccmt.co.zw/publica...
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