The organisation engages in research to better understand the dynamics and challenges in the informal economy. Some of the researches that the organisation has conducted are namely the Bulawayo Informal Sector Policy Research, Youth Employment and Informality – An Informal Economy Assessment of Zimbabwe, Baseline Survey on the Participation of young people in Public Policy Issues, Youth Active Citizenship for Decent Jobs. These studies have improved the organisational programming in responding to the needs of the informal economy particularly young people and women who make up the largest share of the informal economy and unemployment rate.
The organization has carried out research on understanding patterning and growth of the informal sector, understanding laws governing the informal sector and probing city planning and designing and this successfully led to the review and gazetting of a New Informal Traders By- Law Statutory Instrument 181 of 2020 in Bulawayo encapsulating the proposed changes that the organization submitted through its Model By- Law.