Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:30:30 +0000 Opposition National Restoration Party (NAREP) has developed an empowerment scheme that is aimed at creating jobs to curb vending in the country. In a statement signed by party president Elias Chipimo, the project called ‘NAREP Empowerment and Enterprise Plan’ (NEEP) would help create jobs in a bid to promote sustainable livelihoods. Mr Chipimo said the project involved the adoption of a policy by government to allocate 10 percent of all its procurement of goods and services to youth and women enterprises that would also specifically target street vendors. He said NAREP was collecting as many as 1000,000 signatories in support of the plan to demonstrate to the government that the project could be implemented as soon as possible. “If government moves fast to implement NAREP’s plan for job creation, such action need not be seen in a bad light by the vendors as they would have an alternative means […]
