National Priorities
The new government of Zimbabwe seeks UNDP support in the following priority areas:

• Technical Assistance in the Area of Aid Management and Aid Effectiveness
• Institutional Capacity Needs Assessment
• Restoration of Basic Freedoms
• Electoral Support
• Constitution Making Process
• Resolution of Residual Issues related to Land
• Early Recovery
• Establishment of National Economic Council

UNDP Focus
UNDP Zimbabwe's interventions will incorporate and support the above 8 priorities.  At this critical stage in Zimbabwe's recovery, the UNDP Country office will support the design of short to medium term macroeconomic stabilization strategies. These strategies will facilitate the development of effective policies towards poverty alleviation, increased opportunities for decent employment and implementing community recovery projects in selected vulnerable districts. Towards this end, UNDP will support dialogue around recovery, strengthen the Resident Coordinator's humanitarian coordination role as well as inject expert knowledge from its international pool. It is imperative to shift emphasis from relief to recovery by building capacity at community, local and national levels in order to rebuild livelihoods and ensure sustainable development.

About LICI Cluster in Zimbabwe
The Economic Livelihoods, Infrastructure and Institutional Capacity Building (formerly Early Recovery) Cluster was formed in mid-2009 under the auspices of the United Nations with UNDP  and IOM playing a coordinating role

Early Recovery process in Zimbabwe
The need for a strong early recovery approach was recognized during the CAP 2009 Workshop, which called for a strengthened early recovery element of the CAP and stronger linkages of the emergency humanitarian action plan to existing and newly drafted all encompassing recovery plans. Moreover the need for moving into recovery was emphasized by ASG Catherine Bragg when she visited Zimbabwe in December 2009. The importance of the Early Recovery Cluster and a coordination of Early Recovery interventions were pointed out.

The Zimbabwean context is complex as the country present components of acute humanitarian crisis combined with the needs caused by a long term crisis with long term development needs. Some sectors are mainly responding to emergency needs, others mainly respond to longer-term development needs. Therefore, it is important to capture and build upon the experience gained by the humanitarian community and equally important to recognize that work was ongoing in Zimbabwe when the situation deteriorated to a stage of humanitarian crisis. Development work, albeit described differently by various actors, has continued in parallel with humanitarian assistance and therefore a number of ongoing recovery interventions bridge the two.

Crisis Prevention and Recovery Projects
 Locally Led Early Recovery
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Organ for National healing, Reconciliation and Integration