Zimbabwe

Research and Information Services (RIS) was identified as the TRI partner of the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT). Initially the project was supposed to collect data on village registers with village heads’ secretaries as unpaid self-enumerators. This project however, could not be realized as RIS ran into problems with the Government of Zimbabwe pertaining to its registration. As a result, ZIMSTAT could not proceed with the village registers. Instead, with the approval of ECA, ZIMSTAT implemented an alternative project on the collection of Consumer Price Survey (CPS) data without any TRI. In Zimbabwe, price collection is done every month within five days of the week