ZimbabweZimbabwe’s post-2013 constitutional landscape offers a renewed vision for devolved governanceGovernance, yet the provincial tier (sphere) continues to operate within a legacy of centralised control. This chapter traces the historical and contemporary trajectory of provincial administration. The 2013 ConstitutionConstitution laid out a restructured provincial governanceGovernance model, including the participation of elected officials in the provincial and metropolitan councils, yet many years later the legislative and institutional mechanisms to operationalise this structure have not been enacted. Unlike central and local government tiers that have their own sources of revenue or taxation powers the provincial governments rely of the national budget funding. Provincial governments remain a coordinating authority which operate through State deconcentration. This chapter argues that the delays to implement constitutional provisions has slowed the pace of devolutionDevolution and undermines the potential for inclusive governanceGovernance and territorial development.The chapter argues that the Provincial Councils and Administration Amendment Bill should be urgently enacted as an Act of Parliament to provide a clear legal framework for operationalising provincial and metropolitan councils. Strengthening devolution requires the central government to cede certain taxation powers to provincial governments in order to reduce their dependence on intergovermental fiscal transfers. These interventions are critical for entrenching decentralisationDecentralisation through devolution into the architecture of StateState functionality. Provincial governanceGovernance should evolves beyond the coordination role towards devolution. Only then can ZimbabweZimbabwe realise the promisesPromise of devolution and multi-level governanceGovernance.

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Provincialisation and State Decentralisation in Zimbabwe

  • Kadmiel H Wekwete,
  • Cosmas T. Shoko

摘要

ZimbabweZimbabwe’s post-2013 constitutional landscape offers a renewed vision for devolved governanceGovernance, yet the provincial tier (sphere) continues to operate within a legacy of centralised control. This chapter traces the historical and contemporary trajectory of provincial administration. The 2013 ConstitutionConstitution laid out a restructured provincial governanceGovernance model, including the participation of elected officials in the provincial and metropolitan councils, yet many years later the legislative and institutional mechanisms to operationalise this structure have not been enacted. Unlike central and local government tiers that have their own sources of revenue or taxation powers the provincial governments rely of the national budget funding. Provincial governments remain a coordinating authority which operate through State deconcentration. This chapter argues that the delays to implement constitutional provisions has slowed the pace of devolutionDevolution and undermines the potential for inclusive governanceGovernance and territorial development.The chapter argues that the Provincial Councils and Administration Amendment Bill should be urgently enacted as an Act of Parliament to provide a clear legal framework for operationalising provincial and metropolitan councils. Strengthening devolution requires the central government to cede certain taxation powers to provincial governments in order to reduce their dependence on intergovermental fiscal transfers. These interventions are critical for entrenching decentralisationDecentralisation through devolution into the architecture of StateState functionality. Provincial governanceGovernance should evolves beyond the coordination role towards devolution. Only then can ZimbabweZimbabwe realise the promisesPromise of devolution and multi-level governanceGovernance.