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Programme 02 · Trinity Project

Citizen Participation, Governance & Accountability

We support vulnerable communities to participate in the civic processes that affect them — turning policy commitments into lived outcomes.

Programme description

To support vulnerable communities in their quest to access social services — and to decide how their future should look — Trinity Project supports community organisations to participate in all public civic processes that affect them and happen in their neighbourhoods.

Our approach strengthens communities to demand rights realisation by holding duty-bearers accountable and ensuring transparency in public resource management. This work takes place across community, district, provincial and national-government levels.

On local governance and democracy, we engage duty-bearers at multiple levels and implement budget analysis and resource tracking — including social-movement building, monitoring platforms, capacity strengthening for civil society, and a focus on budget processes and expenditure tracking that goes beyond gender budgeting.

On policy works and advocacy, we campaign for policy formation, reform and implementation. Current priorities include Access to Documentation Laws, Birth and Death Registration, the National Registration Act and the Child Protection Act. Local-level work has improved citizen access to health services and documentation — particularly in Bubi district — aligned with Zimbabwe's Decentralisation and Devolution Policy.