Q FM Africa's Modern Radio
Secretary to the Treasury Fredson Yamba
Government and the civil society have agreed that there is need to improve the macroeconomic indicators and ensure they translate into improved social outcomes as well as tie the foreign direct investment to domestic investment as a way of reducing the externalization of resources from the country.
In a communiqué on the joint GRZ-CSO national symposium on sustainable development read by Secretary to the Treasury Fredson Yamba in Lusaka today, the two parties have noted that though so much progress has been achieved on the economic agenda, the gains have not translated into poverty reduction.
The Symposium also recognized that development issues such as gender, disability, youth, HIV/AIDS, environment and nutrition needed to take prominence in national development planning for successful development outcomes towards attaining Vision 2030.
They also identified the need to shift from a sectorial approach to a multi sectorial approach with a regional development bias for effective and efficient planning delivery.
The symposium also adopted as a way of moving forward the involvement of the youth in future planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of national development programmes and projects.
The two participants committed themselves to play their respective roles in order to ensure that planned reforms such as decentralization are implemented as a catalyst of development initiatives.