CAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT FACILITATE REALISATION OF ZIMBABWE’S VISION 2030 ASPIRATIONS?
CAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT FACILITATE REALISATION OF ZIMBABWE’S VISION 2030 ASPIRATIONS?

Summary/Abstract: It is now looking increasingly unlikely that Zimbabwe is going to meet its stated watershed goal of becoming an upper middle-income nation by 2030. Zimbabwe’s Vision 2030 was adopted in 2018, amidst considerable excitement and fanciness. Official declarations backed up the plan's promise to reverse decades-long development stagnation and serve as a panacea for socio-economic improvement in the landlocked southern African country. Since then, whenever an opportunity to rally people behind its declared lofty objectives arises, the national government has not shied away from seizing it. However, it looks like the programme is behind track, and it might take some time to accomplish its objectives against the constraints of a timescale that is now seemingly turning out to be increasingly restrictive, limiting, and obstructive. The article argues that stagnated progress may be the outcome of local government’s potential in the realisation of Vision 2030 not being fully exploited. In light of this, it reflects on potential actions that may possibly be taken to expedite the implementation and timeous realisation of Zimbabwe’s Vision 2030 aspirations.

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