DEVOLUTION, NEIGHBOURHOOD FORM AND STRUCTURE AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN BULAWAYO, ZIMBABWE, 2018-2021
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2024-06
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With the government of Zimbabwe channelling devolution funds through the Minister for Provincial Affairs and Devolution, the paper challenges this channel towards ‘Si Ye Pambili’ the city’s motto, that is translated as ‘Let us go Forward’. The question is who is being taken where, by whom, and how is it going to happen and when. Zimbabwe has selected devolution as the mechanism within that to achieve decentralisation. The paper seeks to understand the Zimbabwe National Devolution and Decentralisation Policy. Through analysing the policy in the context of
local government amendment bill and the constitution of Zimbabwe. In the contexts of neighbourhood organisation structures, neighbourhood management and neighbourhood fiscal resource allocation and neighbourhood information access. The growth of Bulawayo City has been largely unsuccessful, the decision-making process has been met with fluctuations in funding and questionable levels of support from central government and the communities. Devolution is therefore an important opportunity to re-examine how the devolution of powers and decision
making to neighbourhoods, through the community sector, could be achieved. Using lucid review of literature, informed by theories, and qualitative, descriptive research approaches the paper
discusses issues of mechanisms for neighbourhood governance. The paper concludes by saying that, although new mechanisms for neighbourhood governance would be required, they would
have to vary according to geography and local requirements going beyond consultation processes.
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MAGWARO-NDIWEN, L.I.N.D.A. and FAYAYO, R., 2023. Devolution, Neighbourhood Form and Structure and Transformations in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 2018-2021. Journal of Urban Systems and Innovations for Resilience in Zimbabwe-JUSIRZ, 5(1), pp.68-88.