The Zimbabwe Crisis Report is an initiative of IWPR-Africa’s Zimbabwe Programme. Focusing on Zimbabwe, the programme has three core components - information provision, capacity building and dissemination. The key purpose is to increase awareness in the Southern African region of the Zimbabwean situation and the implications for regional peace, security and economic development. In addition, it contributes to the development of regional policy, promotes dialogue, builds bridges within the region, and raises the Africa-wide and international profile of Zimbabwe.

Importantly it also builds the skills and capacity of the media to reliably and accurately report political transition, governance and human rights issues.