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18 June 2008
The Global Zimbabwe Forum (GZF) seeks to be the most authoritative international voice and platform for all the representative organisations and networks of the Zimbabwean Diaspora community.
The GZF was officially launched on 9th December 2007 as one of the key resolutions of the historic first ever Zimbabwe Global Diaspora Conference that was hosted by the Zimbabwe Diaspora Forum at the Braamfontein Recreation Centre in Johannesburg , South Africa.
In line with the main resolution that facilitated the launch of the GZF, the delegates also resolved that an Interim Committee be set up to spearhead the process of establishing the GZF as a viable international forum for the entire Zimbabwean Diaspora community.
In particular, it was resolved that the GZF set up its administrative office or secretariat in Geneva , Switzerland . Collorary to that, the Interim Committee was further mandated to seek all the requisite resources that were deemed necessary to ensure that such an office became an administrative reality as soon as possible.
As already alluded to, the delegates at the diaspora conference fully acknowledged the need to move beyond words to action. They then tasked the Interim Committee to seek support and financial resources to help establish a positive level of administrative capacity for the co-ordinating and management of all GZF affairs in the short term.
As such in line with that key resolution of the Diaspora conference that envisaged the establishment of a viable public platform for all the Zimbabwean activists and organisations that are based in the Diaspora; it was also resolved that a viable international office be set up to help administer the process.
The delegates further proposed that the office be based in Geneva for strategic diplomatic reasons. The city is widely highly regarded as the diplomatic capital of the world. It plays host to a majority of diplomatic missions and embassies. It also has the international headquarters of most global institutions and NGOs that deal with various issues most of which would be of primary concern to the Zimbabwean Diaspora community.
As such the establishment of an office in Geneva could prove to be crucial due to the following reasons among others:
1. Easy access to the international diplomatic community
2. Easy access to the leadership of many global institutions and NGOs
3. Easy access to many strategic cities in Europe, America and the rest of the world in general
4. Easy access to the main part of the global media community
The critical needs for the period are mainly to set up the physical office and to mobilize the regional networks to strengthen capacity to fully establish the GZF as a truly global platform of the entire Zimbabwean Diaspora community. This then forms part of a wider resource mobilization drive to finance GFZʼs various programmes. However in the interim, the GZF is seeking for financial resources that will help it to immediately set up its Geneva international office.
The successful set up of the office will then help the GZF to source more funding from other potential partners for other programmes and projects under its proposed programme of action. For more details also kindly visit www.zimcsoforum.org
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