The BIG Conversation
A digital media platform that seeks to amplify transparency and accountability issues. We believe in the power of citizen action in impacting change and the strength of the creative artistry experience through animations, blogs, essays, podcasts and photography in conveying simple yet powerful messages on transparency and accountability.
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What we do!
We convene impactful conversations on transparency and accountability leveraging on emerging voices and refreshing perspectives from within Zimbabwe and beyond. Our work revolves around grassroots mobilizing, advocacy and supporting community action for transparency, accountability and integrity. We think global and act local. We realize that fostering a functional media system in Zimbabwe and across Africa demands that we think global in terms of innovation and vision whilst looking at how best local solutions can solve local problems.
Why should you care?
Access to information is a constitutionally guaranteed right. According to Section 62 of the Zimbabwean Constitution, every Zimbabwean citizen or permanent citizen, including juristic persons and the Zimbabwean media, has the right of access to any information held by the state or by any institution or agency of government at every level, in so far as the information is required in the interest of public accountability.
Our stakeholders
Marginalised groups
PWDs, youth and women
Artists
spoken word poets, musicians, animators, writers, animators, calligraphers
Media
journalists, photojournalists, citizen journalists.
Academia
tertiary institutions, tertiary students and academics.
Youth Hubs
Local authorities
Our stories
EU EOM Final Report on the 2023 Harmonised Elections.
The EU EOM Final Report on Zimbabwe's 2023 Harmonised Elections says the polls were marked by a curtailment of rights and freedoms and the lack of a level playing field, which limited voters’ ability to make their choices in a genuinely free and pluralistic...
ZIMBABWE’S 2024 MONETARY POLICY STATEMENT
This Monetary Policy Statement, which is issued in terms of Section 46 of the Reserve Bank Act [Chapter 22:15] comes at a time when the economy is experiencing growth in an inflationary economic environment. The exchange rate and inflation volatilities experienced in...
Conversations on the Disability Bill.
The Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (ZHOCD) recently conducted a PWD dialogue meeting in the Mutare. The dialogue, held on 26 March, aimed to provide a platform for PWDs to identify and discuss what they aspire to be included in the recently gazetted...
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