Challenges in the implementation of poverty reduction strategies in Bocha, Marange area, Manicaland province of Zimbabwe
- Author
- Duma, Tanatswa
- Title
- Challenges in the implementation of poverty reduction strategies in Bocha, Marange area, Manicaland province of Zimbabwe
- Abstract
- The study sought to understand challenges in implementation of poverty reduction strategies in Marange Bocha. The main research objectives were to understand factors contributing to poverty and underdevelopment in Bocha, explore the effectiveness of poverty reduction strategies and suggest measures that can be put in place to ensure the effectiveness of poverty reduction strategies in Marange. A qualitative methodology was employed in this study. A sample of 20 participants was used for the purpose of this study. Data was collected through interviews, focus groups, and surveys. Based on research findings, the structural economic factors have created a difficult environment for the operation of NGOs in Zimbabwe given the shortages of enablers like fuel and other supplies needed for the smooth operation of NGOs. Efforts to explain poverty in poor households have tended to focus on factors within the household and factors within the NGOs themselves. These explanations tend to ignore the impact of the external economic environment. NGOs studied are dependent on donors to an extent that they cannot do anything outside what was agreed by their donors. Based on these findings the study recommends that NGOs seek funding from funders that believe in the ability of NGOs to craft poverty reduction interventions suited to the local context. To nature working and strategic relationships between NGOs and the government, at policy level the government of Zimbabwe should look at possibilities of grant funding to NGOs This also reduces the traditional dependency on donors that comes with strings attached.
- Date
- June 2024
- Publisher
- BUSE
- Keywords
- Poverty, Bocha, Marange
- Supervisor
- :DR Chipaike
- Item sets
- Department of Peace and Governance
- Media
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