Empowered Residents | Smarter City | Better Future
Empowering Bulawayo residents to build a thriving city, together.
FOCUS AREAS
01.
Advocacy
Local and National Advocacy on key local government issues such as policy advocacy, public advocacy, public awareness campaigns and petitions
02.
Capacity Building
We conduct capacity building initiatives including trainings, coaching, and other capacity enhancing processes with its members, leaders, and other local government stakeholders.
03.
We Strengthen
incubated and assisted in the development of other Residents Associations in various parts of the country, including Gweru, Plumtree, Gwanda, Beitbridge, Lupane and Hwange.
04.
Social Accountability
This is one of our
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
We have employed this work stream 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.
OUR PROJECTS
Bringing Dreams within Reach for Children
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The Keys to a New Future for Exploited Chlidren
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Boys Rise to Greatness in Burkina Faso
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Finding a New Life—in a New Land
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The Children who Break New Ground
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Bringing Dreams within Reach
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Research and Policy Analysis
BPRA thrives on informed research on approaching advocacy issues around the land and hence works with various research institutions. These institutions include but are not limited to, Public Policy and Research Institutions of Zimbabwe and Universities such as National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Lupane State University (LSU) and Midlands State University (MSU).
Effective research is important in tackling local governance and service delivery issues to ensure that the organisation operates within legal boundaries and can keep track of progress being made by the local authorities.
Click below to view some Position and Research papers that were conducted by the organisation and various research partners.