
Botswana
Institute For Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA)
TEL : 371750 FAX : 371748
Mission and Objectives
The Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA) is an
independent trust set up by a Presidential Decree. It started operations in
1995 as a non-government policy research institution. BIDPA's main foci are
Policy Analysis and Capacity Building.
BIDPA's trust deed sets out the objectives and functions of the institute,
which include to:
- promote and conduct research,
analysis and publication on development policy issues of relevance to
Botswana and the Southern African region.
- Monitor the performance of
the Botswana economy and the management of public policy implementation,
especially with regard to the implications for economic and social
development.
- Offer advice and consultancy
services to agencies of Government and other clients under suitable
contractual and other arrangements.
- Provide technical and
financial assistance, directly or indirectly, to individuals and
organisations in Botswana as deemed desirable for purposes of facilitating
policy analysis.
- Assist professional training
and public education of Botswana citizens in matters relating to policy
analysis, and encourage collaboration between expatriates and local
professionals in these matters in ways that build or augment national
capacities for performance and understanding of policy analysis.
- Employ staff members who will
themselves, or jointly with other organisations or qualified people, carry
out research, consultancy, training and education projects, including
arrangement and management of contractual relationships designed to
facilitate such activities by persons affiliated with the Institute.
- Present or publish, as the
case may be, the outcome of its policy analysis, orally or in writing, to
individuals, organisations or the general public at large.
- Mobilise and administer funds
to be used for achievement of the objectives and performance of the
functions of the Institute.
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