Botswana
Institute For Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA)
TEL : 371750 FAX : 371748
E-MAIL : webmaster@bidpa.bw
www.bidpa.bw
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.