adminSpeaking during a two-day liaison and coordination committee retreat at a Bulawayo hotel at the weekend, Mr Zvoma said the objective of the retreat was to review the performances of the Parliamentary committees in the 2010/2011 session and deliberate on challenges that they were facing in executing their duties.
“This retreat is part of our programme, which is held twice a year to review one another’s performances in our constituencies. It is a healthy, useful programme, which assists members to learn from one another and experience new things that would help develop their constituencies,” said Mr Zvoma.
“Members are also assessing work plans for the next session as we are already coming to the end of the 2010/2011 session.
“This retreat, which is specifically for chairpersons of liaison committees, is a learning process where members of the House of Assembly also deliberate on the challenges that committees face when they are executing their duties.”
Mr Zvoma said the retreat also helped to make members concentrate on issues discussed, away from their constituencies.
“Our main aim is to make members concentrate on the co-business of the retreat, away from their busy schedules, in an environment where they can sit down and focus on the agenda, with no disturbances. We have been having this retreat in Victoria Falls for the past two years and this time we have decided to have it in Bulawayo.
“There are quite a number of challenges that the committees face when executing their duties, which include lack of co-operation by Ministries and other stakeholders and these
are also part of the issues that have to be addressed,” he said.
The chairperson of the indigenisation and empowerment committee, Senator Monica Mutsvangwa, said the retreat would go a long way in giving committee chairpersons a chance to correct their mistakes and improve on certain areas.
“The retreat is important because it gives us a chance to review the successes of the programmes held in various constituencies, what we have achieved and to see where we have gone wrong in our different interventions.”
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