NPC Roadshow: 1BW, 1Vision, 1Plan

Early this year, NPC decided to embark on a roadshow. The purpose of the road show is to allow NPC to move beyond the phone calls, social media and emails and actually create face-to-face relationships with the communities in order to help them understand their role in Achieving Vision 2036.

It was also an opportunity to share the organization’s mandate with Batswana, given that the organization is only 2 years old since establishment. The expectation was that people will show up to learn more about the NPC mandate and their contribution towards achieving Vision 2036. The theme for the roadshow was; #YAME: 1BW, 1VISION, 1PLAN.

The theme, which will run across other publicity campaigns for the rest of the year, seeks to promoting the following three aspects:

• 1BW: Represents a country called Botswana with its territory (natural resources, infrastructure) and people.
• 1VISION: A Country with a Vision named 2036 that seeks to achieve prosperity for all at individual, community and country level.
• 1PLAN: NDP offers a long term perspective that defines how the desired destination in Vision 2036 will be achieved. As well as the recently approved National Transformation Strategy that identifies the different sectors needed to play a role in the delivery of the Vision. 

Hence, this hashtag #yame, is an individual call for all to love our country and country men, to have a role in the implementation of the Vision and the developmental agendas set forth.
The objective of the road show was to:

• Create brand awareness on the NPC mandate as a new entity of Government. 
• Public sensitization on the Vision 2036 and its imperatives (Sustainable Development Goals, Agenda 2063, NTS, TNDP).
• Carrying the flagship of ‘A re Chencheng’ towards the achievement all that we have set to do as a nation and in our individual capacities.
• Solicit information from the public on the development of NDP 12 and what they would like to see in terms of developments in their areas. (Introduction of an NDP 12 email address for people to share their wish list of what they would want to see in the upcoming plan.)

The roadshow began on the 26th February 2024, and ended on the 11th March 2024. The selection criteria of where to set up, was deduced from the need to reach both urban and rural areas, blending villages and towns. As such, locations visited for the roadshow, were a combination of malls/ shopping complexes and kgotlas. The areas covered for this lap of the roadshow were, Bobonong, Gobojango, Semolale, Sefhophe, Mmadinare, Selibe-Phikwe, Tonota, Francistown, Tutume, Masunga Letlhakane, Orapa, Serowe, Palapye and Mahalapye.