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The Bill pretends to solve a problem that does not exist: In the accompanying note of the PVO Bill, Parliament says that the Bill is being introduced to comply with recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to combat the abuse of charity organisations in advancing terrorism and money laundering. However, there is no evidence from past National Risk Assessments (NRA) that charity organisations in Zimbabwe are used for money laundering or for funding terrorism. NGOs are not among the high threat sectors in Zimbabwe. Secondly, since March 2022, Zimbabwe has been removed from the FATF grey list (designation of a country as at risk) meaning the said recommendation 8 by FATF no longer applies to Zimbabwe