Sector Consultation for the National Development Strategy 1

Zimbabwe's development trajectory is premised on five year blue prints that set the stage and background of the country's development agenda. Consultations for the National Development Strategy (NDS1) that is going to guide the country's development process in the next five years begun in 2019, upon realising that the Transitional Stabilisation Program that was promulgated in 2018 had omitted the important role of culture in development. Consultations for the NDS1 deliberately took into account the role of culture and as a result culture has been listed as one of the country's priorities in the next five years with nationwide consultations on the important role of the creative and cultural sector having been carried out. All key stakeholders including Civil Society Organisations were actively involved in the consultations..