ZIMBABWE NATIONAL ACTION PLAN 2022–2025 for Strengthening Labour Market Information System and Skills Anticipation Practices

The Zimbabwe National Action Plan is an operational document which sets direction and guides the establishment of structured and systematic skill needs assessment and anticipation in the country. The main objective of the National Action Plan is to strengthen the Zimbabwean Labour Market Information (LMI) skills needs assessment and anticipation system in the country. Skills mismatches exact high economic and social costs at all levels: individual, business and government and is both a result and a contributory cause of structural unemployment. A number of factors are influencing the evolution of skills demand and supply, and if left unaddressed they are likely to contribute to further skills mismatches in the future. The National Action Plan was developed under the framework of the Skills Anticipation component of the Skills Initiative for Africa (SIFA) Programme. SIFA (2019–2022) was a programme of the African Union Commission and African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD), assisted financially by the German Government and European Union. AUDA-NEPAD partnered with the International Labour Organization (ILO) to build the skills anticipation capacities of African Union Members States, as a means for improving the development of evidence-based skills policies, strategies and implementation.