Title: Advocacy
Campaign Strategy for
the Promotion of Farm
workers Rights
Knowledge Mwonzora
General Agriculture and
Plantation Workers Union of
Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE
Table of Contents
 Brief
Background of GAPWUZ
 Objectives and targets
 Context analysis
 Impact on workers
Introduction
Brief of Background of
 Was formed in 1982 and registered in 1986
-trade union organization, which was
established to promote, advance and
protect the rights and interests of workers
in the agricultural sector.
The mission of gapwuz is to provide good
quality and efficient service through
empowering and advancing the living
and working conditions of agricultural
workers
Objectives and key targets
 1)
To increase the wages of farm workers
by 40% in the next 6months
 2) To ensure that worker’s rights are
effectively promoted by 2014.
 3) To ensure access to justice to all our
membership by 2015.
Targets
 When
increasing wages we target
 Farm workers, National employment
council of agriculture, worker’s
committees.
Context analysis
-Poor living and working conditions
Violation of farm worker’s rights.
-situation deteriorated after the 2000 land
invasions.
The land grabbing by some war veterans
displaced some workers and left them
stranded and homeless.
 It is estimated that there is about 320 000
farm workers in Zim. These are the people
who suffer from unfair labour practices
such as unfair dismissal& intimidation
Impact on workers
 They
are deprived of their political rights,
and children drop out of school,
 The organisation therefore has to
campaign for the realisation of workers
rights.
Advocacy strategies to
promote farm worker’s rights
 The
organisation builds alliances with
other trade union e.g Coalition against
Child Labour in Zimb,zim lawyers for
human rights
 The organisation sensitize and mobilise
people to strike so that their wages will be
reviewed upwards.
 policy brief and media release is also
used toinfluence policy makers on labour
laws
Policy recommendations
I
recommend that government precisely
the ministry of Labour should formulate a
clear policy that promotes fairness,
equality and social justice in farm
communities. In this sense the policy
should be explicit on the minimum age
requirement of working in farm
communities. So far there is no clear
legislation on child labour.