[Bill-Watch] Bill Watch - Parliamentary Committees 5/2015 of 17th February [Capacity Building Seminar for Committees; Additional Open Meetings This Week; Committee Reports]

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BILL WATCH

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES SERIES 5/2015

[17th February 2015]

Capacity Building Seminar; Additional Open Meetings on 19th February;
Committee Reports

Capacity Building Seminar

This week Parliament will resume a series of seminars that are meant to
capacitate MPs in the conduct of committee business. In this regard, the
following Portfolio Committees will attend the Capacity Building Seminar
that will be convened in the Senate Chamber on Wednesday 18th February at
9.00 am:

1. Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment

2. Transport and Infrastructure Development

3. Defence, Home Affairs and Security Services

4. Environment, Water, Climate and Tourism.

Please note that this capacity building seminar will not be open to the
public.  Only Committee members will be allowed to attend.

Meetings Open to the Public on Thursday

Bill Watch Parliamentary Committees Series 4/2015 contained an incomplete
list of Thursday's open committee meetings.  To avoid confusion we set out
below a complete list of open meetings scheduled for Thursday morning.

These details are based on the latest information from Parliament.  But, as
there are sometimes last-minute changes to the meetings schedule, persons
wishing to attend should avoid disappointment by checking with the relevant
committee clerk [see below] that the meeting is still on and open to the
public.  Parliament's telephone numbers are Harare 700181 and 252940/1.

Members of the public may attend these open meetings, but as observers only,
not as participants, i.e. they may observe and listen but not speak.  The
meetings are at Parliament in Harare.  If attending, please use the entrance
on Kwame Nkrumah Ave between 2nd and 3rd Streets.  Please note that IDs must
be produced.

Thursday 19th February at 9 am

Thematic Committee: Peace and Security

Oral evidence from the Permanent Secretary for Agriculture, Mechanisation
and Irrigation Development regarding the food security situation in Zimbabwe

Committee Room No.  4

Chair: Hon Senator Mumvuri                            Clerk: Mr Kunzwa

Thursday 19th February at 9.30 am

Portfolio Committee:  Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment

Oral evidence from the Minister of Youth, Indigenisation and Economic
Empowerment on the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment legislation

Senate chamber

Chair: Hon Wadyajena                                      Clerk: Ms
Zenda-Mudzvova

Thursday 19th February at 10 am

Portfolio Committee:  Small and Medium Enterprises and Cooperative
Development

Oral evidence from the Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises and
Cooperative Development on the management of Housing Cooperatives

Chair: Hon Mangami                                         Clerk: Mr Mazani

Portfolio Committee:  Education, Sport, Arts and Culture

Oral evidence from Ministry of Sports Arts and Culture.

Committee Room No. 2

Chair: Hon Mliswa                                              Clerk: Mr
Munjenge

Portfolio Committee:  Media, Information and Broadcasting Services

Oral evidence from ZBC on the outcome of the forensic Audit Report.

Committee Room No. 311

Chair: Hon Dhewa                                             Clerk: Mr
Chiremba

Reports Being Prepared by Committees 

This part of the bulletin is to explain what the other committees will be
doing in their closed meetings, and what committee reports are in the
pipeline for eventual presentation to the Senate or the National Assembly,
as appropriate, when completed. Some committees are reviewing their work
plans or deliberating on evidence previously received.  Other committees
will be working on reports, as follows: 

Thematic Committee: MDG's

Report on MDG's

Thematic Committee: Human Rights

Report on the State of the Justice Delivery System in Zimbabwe

Portfolio Committee:  Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare

Report on the operations of NSSA

Portfolio Committee:  Public Accounts

National Railways of Zimbabwe Accounts for 2011.

[Please note that these reports will not become available until they have
been tabled in the appropriate House and the committee chairperson has moved
that the House take note of the report.  Please do not request a report from
Veritas until we have announced that we have it available.]

Committee Report Available

The report of the Senate's Thematic Committee on Gender-based Violence in
Churches was presented to the Senate on 10th February.  It is now available
in soft copy on Veritas' website  <http://www.veritaszim.net>
www.veritaszim.net or on request from the addresses given below.    

 

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