What If... We think differently?

What role do engaged communities play in fostering a culture of inclusive democracy? In this episode we explore democracy beyond elections and the power associational life can have towards inclusive development and what this looks like in the 21st century.

What must we do as citizens to improve the transport system in Zimbabwe and how we learn from our past mistakes and failures and reconsider something else?

What are the possible ways of improving domestic resource mobilization?

What is limiting the growth of agriculture and what are the potential challenges in the growth of Agriculture? Let’s discuss these questions and explore possible solutions. What must we do?

In this series, we look at ways of raising resources and how to effectively deploy them. Starting with local governance, how must we improve local authority revenue collection and deployment to deal with the problems we are facing?

Democracy has several sites of expression including the working of communities within and amongst each other through associations and networks of solidarity to solve public problems. This episode uncovers some of the sites of expression, and by extension sites of democracy in practice.

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What do you see as the link between democracy and economic progress or development? Can one advance without the other? In this podcast we flesh out this important link explaining the interplay between livelihood, trade, asset accumulation and resource distribution. We demonstrate that the processes which govern these activities are the expression of democracy. 

Tendai Murisa, Belinda Chaora and Eddah Jowah. 

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@E_Jowah 

We each have our firm positions on what our political solutions should look like. But rarely do we take a step back to think about the consequences of our refusal to compromise. In this episode, Tendai is joined by Claire as they explore the impact of our failed national conversations and what good conversation on national discourse can look like.

Tendai Murisa, Claire Nyamayaro and Belinda Chaora

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In this podcast we look at the concept of citizenship, what it looks like and how can it be practiced by everyday people. We consider some activities being done by ordinary residents that demonstrate active citizenship.

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In this podcast, we look at how citizens can take back control of how their cities or urban centers are run by being more involved in problem-solving. We showcase some examples that have happened in Zimbabwe, where citizens have engaged in co-production leading to new forms of accountability and change.

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In this episode, we demonstrate the importance of understanding democracy not just as a political conversation but one that is outworked in many other spaces including religious, social, and economic spaces. We speak specifically about the role religious bodies have in understanding and practicing active citizenship as contributors to associational life.

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