Herald Reporters
A CENTRALISED skills audit focusing on Zimbabwe’s mining and agriculture sectors has been initiated by Government along with a more detailed exercise at the request of Harare City Council to address skills shortages affecting urban service delivery.
Spearheaded by the Ministry of Skills Audit and Development, the programme is part of a broader strategy to guide national development planning and improve the efficiency of public service delivery.
Speaking on the sidelines of a soft skills framework brainstorming session in Harare yesterday, Skills Audit and Development Minister Professor Paul Mavima said Government had developed a comprehensive framework to guide the upcoming National Critical Skills Audit, which will build on the baseline established by the last audit in 2018.
“We are putting together the resources that are needed.
“So we are hoping that as we go into 2026, we will be able to start on that National Critical Skills Audit, which will then give us a better idea of the skills gaps that are in the country.”
In the interim, the Ministry had responded to specific requests from local authorities, with Harare City Council seeking a targeted audit to address pressing service delivery shortfalls.
“They have asked us to audit, in fact, to do a skills audit for the city,” Minister Mavima said.
“It is not like we are going to the city to say, do you have qualified people? But we are saying what skills do they lack? And that is based on what skills they want.”
The audit process involves determining the competencies required to improve service provision, assessing the existing human capital and proposing actionable strategies to close the identified gaps.
“First of all, we establish what skills they want for them to be effective in the delivery of services in the City of Harare and which skills they do not have. How can they fill the gaps? So that process has already started.”
Minister Mavima said sector-specific audits will be extended to other industries in 2025, laying the groundwork for a comprehensive, methodologically robust national audit planned for 2026, resources permitting.
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