By KETRA KALUNGAEmpower local authorities by implementing the decentralization plan that has been gathering dust on the shelves, Zambia Council For Social Development (ZCSD) urges the government.Executive Director Leah Mitaba said Zambia has had a decentralization policy and implementation plan for the past two decades through which people’s aspirations could be achieved but has unfortunately been shelved.Ms. Mitaba said in an interview that the country has lost an opportunity of taking development closer to the people by failing to implement the decentralization plan.She said the country would quickly develop if councils were empowered because the role that the local government elected officials who include the mayors and councillors play in development couldn’t be overemphasized.“So we believe that this could not have come at a better time than this and I think the first five years of the UPND are going to be interesting,” she said.Ms. Mitaba said the pronouncement by the government would be progressive […]
EMPOWER COUNCILS THROUGH DECENTRALIZATION
