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Zimbabwe Digital Investment & Economic Intelligence Platform

A national investment catalogue, turned into a governed, investor-facing registry.

A governed national project registry with role-based investor access, ministry workspaces and deal execution, running end to end as an operational pilot for Zimbabwe, in English and French. Extending to the full public procurement cycle.

At a glance

Sector
Digital government and investment
Status
Pilot
Region
Zimbabwe
Client
Government of Zimbabwe (ZIDA)

The challenge

Zimbabwe's investment opportunities lived in a static catalogue, the ZIDA 2025 catalogue. Investors could read it, but they could not search, filter or engage with it, and government had no governed way to keep it current or to control who saw the financial detail.

The opportunity

Concept Note v0.3 proposed turning that catalogue into a governed, investor-facing registry as the first visible layer of the National Digital Acceleration Program: a service that leaders and investors could see working early.

Our approach

The platform is Afronovation's registry, governance and entitlements software, configured for Zimbabwe. Every project follows a draft, review and publication flow. Access grows with trust: public visitors browse titles, sectors, locations and summaries; registered investors add financing-type filters and a profile for credential review; qualified investors see capital estimates and return indicators, restricted documents and can request meetings and direct engagement with ZIDA. Ministries submit projects, national review and agency approval follow, and approved projects reach the public registry.

Platform highlights

  • Searchable, filterable registry of investment projects across eight priority sectors
  • Draft, review and publish workflow with seven control gates
  • Three investor access levels: public visitor, registered investor and qualified investor
  • Eleven strategic pillars aligned to ZIDA investment themes
  • Ministry workspaces for submitting and managing projects
  • Engagements carried through to executed memoranda of understanding
  • Full English and French versions

Results

Pilot position, September 2026.

37
Platform records
26
Published projects
8
Priority sectors
10
Provinces covered
6
User personas
7
Control gates
  1. 01

    Ministry

    submits

  2. 02

    National

    review

  3. 03

    Agency

    approval

  4. 04

    Public

    registry

  5. 05

    Investor

    engagement

  6. 06

    MoU

    executed

What comes next

Roadmap

Extending to a full government e-procurement platform

The engine that governs who sees an investment project, who approves it and how it is tracked can carry public procurement. These four modules are on Afronovation's roadmap. They are not part of the pilot today, and they complement national e-procurement systems.

  1. Module 1

    Tendering and bid management

    Publish notices, receive sealed electronic bids, open, evaluate and award with a full record.

    Builds on: the draft, review and publish workflow and its control gates.

  2. Module 2

    Supplier registry and vetting

    One verified register of suppliers, with prequalification and performance history.

    Builds on: investor profiles and the three access levels.

  3. Module 3

    Contract and delivery management

    Follow each award to signed contract, milestones, variations and acceptance.

    Builds on: engagement tracking through to executed agreements.

  4. Module 4

    Spend intelligence and open contracting

    Plan, publish and analyse procurement so oversight bodies and citizens can see it.

    Builds on: the economic-intelligence dashboards and the audit trail.

Shared foundationRegistryGoverned workflowsRole-based accessAudit trailEnglish and French

Afronovation's roadmap for governments. Module availability and timing are agreed with each government.

Who it serves

Primary

  • Investors evaluating Zimbabwe's opportunities

Secondary

  • Ministries submitting and managing projects

Decision-makers

  • ZIDA and the Government of Zimbabwe

Scalability

The pilot is the first visible layer of the 365-day National Digital Acceleration Program, which expands into institutional workflows, a document vault and analytics.

Project content on the platform is drawn from the ZIDA 2025 catalogue and is subject to official validation by the Government of Zimbabwe and ZIDA.

Let's inspire possibilities together.

See the platform working.

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