It follows that in order to ascertain the impact of the Citizen Economic Empowerment Programme (CEEP), we had conversations with participating citizen companies, with manufacturers, who indirectly supply inputs to primary mining business partners, and we also spoke to subcontractors and to communities benefiting from the CSR. It is further worth noting that these conversations were held independent of procuring mining companies, and central to these conversations were verification, and impact assessment and documentation of the citizen beneficiaries chronicling their empowerment path to status of emerging citizen industrialists.
UNFILTERED VOICE OF ORDINARY BATSWANA
Stories of Botswana Diamonds have been told over the years focusing on the social-economic impact which the diamonds brought to Botswana at macro level. Documentaries and commentators who sought to amplify the role of diamonds in Botswana’s economic trajectory were in most cases spot on. However, the stories were mostly anchored from a point of authority. What remains as a missing part of the puzzle – the unfiltered voice of ordinary Batswana, demonstrating and relating how diamond mining has transformed and dignified their lives
Many articles and reports that have been published were dominated by voices of local and international officials and not the voices of ordinary Batswana beneficiaries. It is therefore pertinent that diamond stories should be a matter of the heart, such stories carry superior currency when they are from perspective of beneficiaries.
That is validating, and humanizing the transformative effects of the industry on their personal outlook, their lives and their livelihoods. It therefore follows that the Inclusive Impact Botswana is an empowerment platform that is meant to amplify the Batswana community discourse, carrying the voice of experience, narrated by Motswana, told from the perspective of Batswana with no language and cultural barriers
THE CEEP CONVERSATIONS
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To date over 100 citizen owned companies were interviewed; Interviews were held independent of Procuring Companies and its officials to illuminate the following pertinent issues:-
- Verifying the award of contracts awarded to citizens
- Validating citizen regulatory compliance, both safety and industry standards
- The CEEP multiplier effect downstream
- Evaluating assistance to citizen business partners
- Reviewing the appropriateness of capacity building programmes available to citizen business partners;
- Tracking job creation and local procurement from manufacturers
- Transformation of foreign owned companies to comply with the CEEP philosophy
- Opportunities for B2B
