Category: Sustainable Development

By Nicholas Bwalya It is 20 years since proponents of the Access to Information (ATI) Bill begun their advocacy to have this important law enacted. Governments have come and gone, MMD and PF regimes all leaving the Bill to gather dust on the shelves of the Ministry of Information.   The PF government was even more daring than the MMD because in its manifesto of 2011 to 2016, the party pledged to enact the Bill into law. But as they say the rest is history. In a country that is among the top of the Corruption Perception Index, enacting the...

By Derrick Sinjela and Bilke Mulenga Ministry of Health (MoH) Permanent Secretary for Technical Services, Professor Lackson Kasonka launched University of Zambia (UNZA) Strengthening Health Professional Workforce Education Programmes for Improved Quality Healthcare in Zambia (SHEPIZ), with delight as Vice Chancellor Professor Luke Evuta Mumba pledging the Great East Road Campus remaining a centre of learning excellence. . Speaking within earshot of Prof. Mumba, SHEPIZ Principal Investigator Prof Fastone Mathew Goma at Lusaka’s Mulungushi International Conference Centre (MICC) on Wednesday 5th January, 2022, Prof. Kasonka applauded UNZA on the SHEPIZ programme involving 18 newly developed specialised medical and nursing programmes...

Written by: Kelvin Chisanga The ongoing geopolitical conflicts between Russia and Ukraine has some serious devastating impact on many global economies across the board, and Zambia is not an exceptional case with the prevailing economic trends at both global and regional frontiers. To begin with, the energy commodities have started receiving some price-growth, of which we have seen the price of crude oil on the international market, has already gone up to a price margin of $105 per barrel, and from the look of things, we have high chances of seeing this particular article of trade, escalating upwards with some...

By Jeff Kapembwa Lusaka——–Execution of the 2022 budget for the fiscal year risks failure if stringent regulations including  induced ‘Domestic Resource Mobilisation’ initiatives are not applied amid increasing global demand for Zambia’s widely endowed natural resource-copper,  Lusaka lawmaker and  former Deputy Minister, Miles Sampa says. On 30 0ctober, finance minister Situmbeko Musokotwane unveiled a K173 billion budget dubbed: ‘Growth, Jobs and Taking Development Closer to the People.’ The Government envisions spending K173.0 billion this year, equivalent to 37.1 percent of Gross Domestic Product.   Revenues and grants are estimated at K100.7 billion representing 21.6 percent of GDP.  The gross financing of K72.3 billion,...