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Cabinet has approved the draft Eighth National Development Plan (8NDP), 2022-2026 which has been anchored on four key development pillars.
The four pillars are economic transformation and job creation, human and social development, environmental sustainability, and good governance environment, in order to achieve “socio-economic transformation for improved livelihoods”.
The 8NDP which is a successor plan to the Seventh National Development Plan will be the framework through which the national development aspirations towards actualization of the vision 2030 will be attained.
The draft 8NDP has been anchored on the principle of decentralization by devolution so as ensure the attainment of its objectives in line with the United Party for National Development (UPND) manifesto, the blue-print for national development in the next five years.
In a statement obtained by Q-news, Chief Government Spokesperson Chushi Kasanda says Cabinet in approving the draft plan, further agreed that, in order to attain economic transformation and job creation which is the anchor pillar for the 8ndp, the pillars of human and social development, environmental sustainability and good governance shall be treated as supporting pillars with energy, transport and logistics, technology, water development and infrastructure as enablers.
Ms Kasanda states that therefore, the drivers for the anchor pillar, the economic transformation and job creation, in the next five years, will be agriculture, manufacturing, mining and tourism.
She adds that during the same meeting, cabinet also approved the hosting of the Innovation Africa 2022 summit to be held in Lusaka from 15th to 18th November, 2022.