Empowering communities through CBP in Zimbabwe: Experiences in Gwanda and Chimanimani

This article briefly describes the experiences and lessons of community-based planning (CBP) in two pilot districts (Gwanda and Chimanimani) in Zimbabwe. The CBP process created the need to revitalise the planning and development structures in the pilot districts and engaged government throughout the process, which resulted in the mainstreaming of community empowerment principles in the decentralisation framework of the government of Zimbabwe.