Consultation Before Policy Implementation in Zimbabwe.

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Chinamasa

 The Zimbabwean economy has been deteriorating despite the introduction of the ZimAsset economic blue print. A lot of people have lost their jobs  in the country and strikes have already been reported in universities as the country struggles to pay its workers. Everyone has accepted that the country's economy is on the bleak. In my own opinion the problem of the Zimbabwean economy lays on its policies.Ordinary Zimbabweans have not participated on the construction of the ZimAsset policy .

 It seem to me that the participation of ordinary people in policy making is still small on ordinary Zimbabweans. The people are not even given a platform to debate about the policies of their own country . Policies are being dictated on ordinary people giving a limited feed back to the government. Those that support the ruling party are then used by the state to sell the policies to the people even if they are disastrous to the country . Satirically some of the people who are used to sell the policies do not understand the policies they are selling resulting in confusion amongst the citizens of the country.

Consultation is very useful as it brings new ideas from the people. Zimbabweans are a learned people and if they are consulted they can bring with them good ideas to move a nation .Before the reduction of bread in Zimbabwe, there was a consultation between the stake holders in the baking industries coming up with conditions that were favorable to everyone. This should have been done to the manufacturing industry before the implementation of the ZimAsset blue print .