The ZANU-PF led government under President Mnangagwa has been in office since August 2018. On their way to the office, the ruling party, alongside others, developed a campaign manifesto in which they made a number of promises on what they would do if elected to office. We have been tracking progress using the www.zimcitizenswatch.org platform. The platform tracks the conversion of promises contained in the manifesto since their first day in office. To date, out of the 235 promises made, the ZANU-PF government has kept 185 (78.72%), has not commenced on 31, broke 4 promises and 14 have been fully implemented. In this report we provide a detailed analysis of government performance based on results from the tracker. It is important to note that rating performance on the basis of a political party’s manifesto is not adequate. There is need to understand the levels of satisfaction of the electorate. We hasten to add that this report should be read in conjunction with another study that we carry out annually - the Citizens’ Perceptions and Expectations survey where we determine the levels of citizen satisfaction with government performance.

Some of the top line promises made during elections included; transforming Zimbabwe into an upper middle income economy by 2030, the creation of one million formal sector jobs, issuing land tenure documents (99 year leases for A2 and permits for A1), building 2000 schools by 2023, rehabilitating and establishing at least one vocational training centre per administrative district, establishing at least one hospital per administrative district, and delivering at least 1.5 million affordable housing within five years amongst many others (ZANU-PF, 2018). In this report we analyse performance across all the sectors. Performance by sector has generally been uneven. The social policy sector remains neglected except for COVID-19 related interventions. There are a couple of broken promises across all sectors.

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