Office of the President · Republic of Zimbabwe

Dr Paul Tungwarara

Special Adviser to the President of Zimbabwe on Investment and Empowerment. Operational architect of Vision 2030.

35,000 Boreholes

1.8M Households

50,000 War-vet stands

4 Hospitals

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Biography

The Operator In The Room

Dr Paul Tungwarara opening a Prevail Group project alongside President Mnangagwa

Dr Paul Tungwarara serves as Special Adviser to the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe on Investment and Empowerment. His brief sits where presidential decision meets field execution. Vision 2030 — Zimbabwe's path to upper middle-income status — has a fiscal half at Treasury and a delivery half on his desk.

A career operator before public service, Dr Tungwarara built and chairs the Prevail International Group of Companies, a Zimbabwean conglomerate with active operations across infrastructure, real estate, manufacturing, hospitality, mining, retail, logistics and financial services. The group's footprint runs through ten subsidiary companies and employs over 2,500 people across Southern Africa and the United Arab Emirates.

From the Office of the President, Dr Tungwarara coordinates the Presidential Borehole Drilling Programme, the Village Business Unit roll-out under Rural Development 8.0, the Presidential Stands for Veterans of the Liberation Struggle, the Presidential Solar Programme, and the rehabilitation of Zimbabwe's flagship public hospitals — Parirenyatwa, Sally Mugabe, Mpilo and United Bulawayo Hospitals.

The work draws from a generation of comparable delivery-unit doctrine. Tony Blair's Prime Minister's Delivery Unit under Sir Michael Barber. The Rwandan Imihigo performance contracts under President Paul Kagame. The United Arab Emirates Prime Minister's Office under Mohammad Al Gergawi. Each compressed multi-year mandates into quarterly milestones by attaching named operators to dated targets.

Presidents who leave legacies share one feature in the historical record. They hire one operator whose job is to stand where the speech meets the soil.
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By The Numbers

Vision 2030, Delivered At Scale

Every programme on Dr Tungwarara's desk is sized against the international benchmarks ministers, central bankers and development finance institutions actually score.

Water & Sanitation 35,000 Boreholes targeted

One borehole in every ward of every province. The World Bank places the rural water return on investment at US$4 to US$12 for every US$1 deployed.

Rural Industrialisation 1.8M Rural households reached

Through 35,000 Village Business Units delivering an average dividend of US$55 per household per month on top of NEC-regulated wages.

Housing & Empowerment 50,000 Serviced stands

For veterans of the liberation struggle across all 10 provinces, plus a US$1.5 million revolving fund disbursed as interest-free working capital.

National Healthcare 4 Flagship hospitals

Parirenyatwa, Sally Mugabe, Mpilo and United Bulawayo Hospitals — under active rehabilitation. Targeting reduction in MMR from 651 per 100,000.

Presidential Programmes

The Delivery File

Four flagship programmes converting Vision 2030 from policy into measurable infrastructure across every province of Zimbabwe.

Completed Presidential War Veteran Borehole installation in rural Zimbabwe with twin water tanks and Mnangagwa programme signage

Water & Sanitation

The Presidential Borehole Drilling Programme

35,000 Boreholes · every ward · every province

A national rural water plan sized to move Zimbabwe toward SDG 6.1 inside a single presidential term. Each unit is solar-powered and built to community-grade specification. The World Bank places the rural water return on investment at US$4 to US$12 for every US$1 deployed.

Village Business Unit irrigated cabbage field in rural Zimbabwe under the Rural Development 8.0 framework

Rural Industrialisation

Village Business Units

1.8M Households · US$55 monthly dividend

A shareholder-owned rural enterprise model that converts traditional land use into measurable monthly household income. The Second Republic's Rural Development 8.0 framework deploys 35,000 Village Business Units, 9,600 school business units and 68 Vocational Training Centre units.

Completed war veteran serviced housing unit in Zimbabwe ready for handover with ceremonial ribbon

Housing & Empowerment

Stands for Veterans of the Liberation Struggle

50,000 Fully serviced residential stands · all 10 provinces

A constitutional commitment honoured at scale. Section 23 of the Constitution reserves 20% of national development for veterans of the liberation struggle. The programme delivers serviced housing across all ten provinces, supported by the Presidential War Veterans Borehole Scheme and a US$1.5 million Revolving Fund.

Aerial view of Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals during the Presidential Hospital Rehabilitation Programme

National Healthcare

The Hospital Rehabilitation Programme

4 National referral hospitals · under active rebuild

Four flagship referral hospitals are being rebuilt to international standard. Active rehabilitation runs at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals (Mbuya Nehanda Maternity Hospital and Adlam House near completion), Sally Mugabe Central Hospital, Mpilo Central Hospital and United Bulawayo Hospitals.