Pitsong Institute of Implementation Research (PIIR) is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) established to inform and facilitate community-driven development in Lesotho and in other Africa countries. Our community-driven development (CDD) approach is based on the principles of local empowerment, participatory governance, demand-responsiveness, administrative autonomy, greater downward accountability, and enhanced local capacity.

Through our work, we advocate for access to information and appropriate capacity and financial support to local communities. We work to empower poor women and men, girls and boys to effectively organize themselves and identify their community priorities and address their development problems by working in partnership with local governments and other supportive institutions. We believe that CDD approaches and actions are important elements of an effective poverty reduction and sustainable development.

VISION

PIIR strives for a local governance system where communities are empowered and are championing their own development, working with and through effective local governments, effective civil society, effective local governance structures and a viable and widespread network of community based service providers.

MISSION
PIIR will lead programs that:

 

• Promote a culture of knowledge development and evidence based policy and decision making
• Promote a culture of accountability (vertical and horizontal) in service delivery by development stakeholders at the macro, meso and micro level
• That build institutional capacity to generate and use evidence from global best practices
• Encourage stakeholders in development and service deliver (macro, meso and micro level) to generate and share evidence in implementation
• Support the central/macro level to realign responsibilities, to provide strategic direction and oversight to district based service provision
• Empower local governments to generate evidence and to use evidence to provide, supervise, support and account for services delivered
• To promote an active, responsive, dispersed and accountable network of local/community based service providers
• Empower communities to manage their own development

Our Values

PIIR is committed to a transformation process, which fundamentally addresses socio-economic needs of the poor. We seek sustainable African solutions to African problems, while learning from best practice elsewhere, and so maintaining a strong base in our local area, Lesotho. We believe in shared management, so that all those working for the organisation have responsibilities. We contribute to the well-being of disadvantaged communities in Africa. We also strive for transparency and accountability within the organisation and require the same of our partners and clients.