Realising the Church's Potential in Promoting Good Governance in Zimbabwe IMBISA is the Inter-Regional Meeting of Bishops of Southern Africa. This is an initiative aimed at bringing together Bishops at IMBISA level to lobby and advocate for the peaceful conduct of elections in Zimbabwe and the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Region.

Purpose
Informed IMBISA Church leaders take positive action to engage and influence SADC political leaders to promote sustainable and peaceful transition to democracy in Zimbabwe through the full observance of internationally recognised standards for the conduct of elections and respect for the rule of law in Zimbabwe.

Output 1
1. IMBISA church leaders in collaboration with other regional and local church leaders and civil society organisations pro-actively lobbying and advocating for increased democratisation in Zimbabwe and the SADC region.

1.1  Selection of IMBISA Election Team of 12 bishops and other church leaders
1.2 Orientation of IMBISA church leaders’ team 
1.3 Consultative Meetings with IMBISA church leaders’ team Civil Society Organisations and other faith leaders ahead of each lobbying meeting with political leaders in Zimbabwe and in the SADC Region.
1.4 One initial meeting held with each of the 3 parties to the Global Political Agreement in Zimbabwe.
1.5  One meeting with South African President as Chair of the SADC Troika and as mediator on the Zimbabwe crisis 
1.6  1 meeting with the South African facilitation team 

Output 2
2. IMBISA church leaders have the capacity to mobilise the faith based constituency in order to effectively influence sustained and peaceful transition to democracy in Zimbabwe

2.1. One training workshop on SADC and AU Principles on free and fair elections as well as Zimbabwean electoral laws.
2.3 Development of IMBISA Election Monitoring Barometre. A standard toolkit for use in monitoring the situation in Zimbabwe and in the SADC region including desk-based study/review of existing instruments – EISA, Zimbabwe Election Support Network, Pastoral Letters on Elections, AFCAST Materials.
2.4 Meeting to constitute and orient technical team of experts to support bishops’ advocacy actions including working with church leaders to develop position papers. 
2.5 Brief & support bishops with adequate and accurate information on the situation in Zimbabwe and ahead of each lobbying activity
2.6 Development & packaging of position paper for use by the bishops

Output 3
3.  IMBISA Bishops have first-hand information on the impact of the crisis on the ordinary person in Zimbabwe and are therefore inspired and enabled to engage political leaders in Zimbabwe and in the SADC region from an evidence-based perspective.

3.1 1 fact finding mission to Zimbabwe per year for IMBISA church leaders’ team.
3.2 One consultative meeting with civil society and other faith-based organizations as part of fact finding missions in-country.
3.3 Hold 1 meeting with each of the GNU Principals
3.4 Produce 1 Country Assessment Report 
3.5 Translation of Quarterly Country Assessment Report
3.6 Press briefing & Issuing of press statement 
3.7 Debriefing with local church and civil society representatives

Output 4
4. IMBISA church leaders are able to effectively harness the power of the media to advocate for peaceful elections and sustainable transition to democracy in Zimbabwe5.IMBISA Secretariat has the institutional capacity to effectively support and coordinate the advocacy work of IMBISA Church leaders on Zimbabwe

4.1 One training workshops for IMBISA church leaders on media engagement and use of the media for advocacy
4.2 Development of Index of local, regional and international media organizations and contacts for use by IMBISA
4.3 Update IMBISA website
4.4 Hold 3 press conferences on Zimbabwe
4.5 Produce 4 press statements per year