Overview
The average growth rate between 2015 and 2020 has been around three (3) percent per annum. Other economic challenges during this period include sharp decline in the value of Kwacha against the US$, rise in inflation and high mass unemployment (BITI 2020, IMF 2020). The major repercussions of economic failure include high cost of living, increase in income poverty and inequality, limited employment and work opportunities, low incomes, and poor public services especially social services. Despite Zambia’s’ wealth in natural resources, poverty and resource degradation have persisted in the past decades.
Strategic Objective: To advocate for a people-centered and fairer national economic development model and approach which guarantees every Zambian a productive and dignified life.
Key Strategies
- Policy and legislative lobbying and advocacy on economic matters
- Undertake periodic research and analysis on topical issues
- Conduct public awareness on public finance management systems, debt management
- Capacity building CSOs and communities on public finance management systems, debt management systems
- Facilitate CSOs and communities to undertake budget tracking and service delivery monitoring
- Facilitate and coordinate campaigns on effective national debt management
- Advocate for implementation of the decentralization policy
- Coordinate civil society participation in the national planning and budgeting processes
- Coordinate advocacy efforts for domestic Resource Mobilisation.
