Promoting Successful and Sustainable Community Dialogue Outcomes: A Practitioner's Toolkit for Zimbabwe

Community dialogue practitioners play a vital role in developing practical solutions to local issues. They act as effective conduits for elevating these proposals to the national level, advocating for policy reform and implementation. This toolkit—developed as part of IFIT’s Bottom-Up Dialogue work in Zimbabwe—is intended to support dialogue practitioners in promoting successful and sustainable outcomes for community dialogues across the country. It draws on insights from 13 cases of community dialogue conducted nationwide between 2018 and 2023, all examined in IFIT’s report Promoting Bottom-Up Dialogue: A Study of Community-Level Dialogue Experiences in Zimbabwe. These findings are further enriched by contributions from Zimbabwean experts and community-based and civil society organisations engaged in convening dialogues across the country. These include the Institute for Local Governance (ILC), Youth Empowerment and Transformation Trust (YETT), Community Youth in Development Trust (CYDT), Youth in Peace Building Initiative Trust (YIPIT), and Zimbabwe Women Against Corruption Trust (ZWACT).