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On the 3rd of March 2017, Zambia launched the long-awaited National Climate Change Policy aimed at stemming the impact of climate change and subsequent reduction of the country’s annual economic growth due to crop failure and the impact of climate change on energy production. The National Climate Change Policy is an important policy development that introduces a well-structured and coordinated national strategy to effectively tackle the adverse effects of climate change. The policy is driven by the Ministry of National Development Planning and includes special consideration towards vulnerable groups such as poor rural women, children and the youth in Zambia.
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PMRC this morning met The Reform Coordination Division, a division under Cabinet Office in charge of coordinating the implementation of all Government reforms and innovations. The division focuses on coordinating the implementation of high impact reforms and innovations as outlined in the Seventh National Development Plan (7NDP) and other key strategic documents like the Industrialization and Job Creation Strategy (IJCS). The division also ensures that reforms undertaken by Government are communicated within and outside Government.
Domestic Resource Mobilisation (D.R.M.) refers to the generation of savings from domestic resources and their allocation to economically and socially productive investments. Such resource allocation can come from both the public and private sectors. The public sector does this through taxation and other forms of public revenue generation.
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On 6th December 2017, the Minister of Finance launched the 2017 Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) Report on the Evaluation of the Public Financial Management System of Zambia based on Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) Framework of 2016.
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On the 6th of October, 2017 a Cholera Outbreak was declared in Lusaka. Since then sporadic cases have been recorded across the country with only three fatalities recorded outside Lusaka. Cholera is an infectious disease that causes severe watery diarrhea, which can lead to dehydration and even death if untreated. It is caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae.