Empowered Residents | Smarter City | Better Future
our focus areas
Building a better bulawayo together
01
– Local and National Advocacy on key local government issues
This has included policy advocacy on service delivery with local authority officials (Mayors Councillors and council staff) as well as central government officials from the Ministry of Local Government. BPRA has also conducted public advocacy on corruption, service delivery, public awareness campaigns, petitioning, marches, pickets, and demonstrations.
02
– Residents and residents’ association leaders’ capacity building program.
BPRA conducted capacity building initiatives including trainings, coaching, and other capacity enhancing processes with its members, leaders, and other local government stakeholders.
03
– Incubating upcoming/ new residents’ associations:
BPRA has incubated and assisted in the development of other Residents Associations in various parts of the country, including Gweru, Plumtree, Gwanda, Beitbridge, Lupane and Hwange. This has led to growth in the Residents Movement that has in turn strengthened BPRA’s advocacy hand, especially on issues that require national attention and action, like devolution.
04
– Social Accountability
This strand of work has been one of BPRA’s key work pillars, and has seen the organisation conduct various activities in the local government public expenditure management cycle. This includes among others residents-local authority engagement meetings, local authority and national budget tracking and analysis, as well as residents and public officials training workshops on various elements of social accountability.
05
– Research and Policy Analysis
This work stream has been employed by BPRA to support the other 4 work streams namely: ensuring that advocacy is evidence based, capacity building is informed by needs assessments, while incubation is informed by both best practice and BPRA’s experience, and that social accountability is informed by credible information base.