BCP 2014 Manifesto Draft Final

• Develop schemes to divert juvenile offenders from crime and provide them with
more rehabilitative environment away from hard core and regular offenders.
• Reduce overcrowding in Prisons by encouraging community sentencing and other
alternatives to prison.
• Wage war on drug trafficking by strengthening the capacity of the Police and
Customs and Excise to prevent drugs from coming into Botswana.
Enhancing Decentralisation to Promote Universal Access to Services
The BCP believes that effective development must be anchored on a decentralized
system to allow for the voices of the people to inform planning and service delivery.
To this end, the BCP government shall:
• Entrenching local government as a second tier of government in the constitution.
• Empowering local authorities to expand their revenue generating opportunities
and reduce their reliance on central government for financial support. Councils
will be empowered to decide on their recurrent and developmental budgets.
• Carry out an extensive review for all government departments to identify services
that will be more efficiently delivered by local authorities in line with our policy of
decentralization.
• Introduce a policy of executive chairpersons or mayors with powers to run their
districts/towns.
• Creating efficient local government authorities by re-demarcating some of the
existing sub-districts into fully fledged districts.
• Enhancing efficiency of local government by strengthening their capacity to attract
and retain appropriately skilled personnel.
• Expand the mandate of local authorities to cover the provision of primary health
care while the Ministry of Health focuses on policy formulation.
• Position local authorities to promote procurement of goods and services from
businesses within their locality with a strong bias towards citizen owned companies
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