• To facilitate policy formulation on issues pertaining to increased awareness on Sustainable Environmental Development, HIV/AIDS/STI Prevention, Democracy and Human Rights.
• Promote the participation of disadvantaged people at grassroots level and have an avenue in which to air their ideas.
• Promote democracy, good governance and development through rational debate and dialogue.
• Facilitate the discussion and putting forward of homegrown solutions to problems affecting Zimbabwe and Africa in general.
• Create a culture of communication as opposed to confrontation and violence.
• Disseminate relevant and useful socio-economic and political information in our society.
• Develop a Database and Directory for purposes of networking.
• Advocate the role of dialogue and debate within Institutions responsible for legalizing and regulating information policy as well as popularize the value of dialogue within the reconstruction and development of Zimbabwe.
• Facilitate the training and sharing of resources needed for debate and public speaking by institutions.
• Promote the role of dialogue and debate in support of democracy; develop the empowerment of communities, freedom of expression, diversity of ownership and opinion and the combating of racism, sexism, and all forms of discrimination in Zimbabwe.
  

Bulawayo dialogue is a non-profit making and non- partisan center of research and excellence and home of stimulating informative debate on national and international affairs.
We endeavor to develop policy framework through research, lobbying and advocacy in issues relating to:

• Democracy and conflict resolution,
• Gender and HIV/ AIDS,
• Environment and sustainable development, and
• Poverty alleviation.

It promotes the participation of disadvantaged people at grass roots level, information sharing, as well as dissemination of relevant political, civic, economic developmental and social information in our society.