Government says it will apply the outcome of the 2008 Smart Partnership Dialogue towards enriching programmes aimed at achieving Zambia’s Vision 2030 targets.
Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister, Felix Mutati, told Journalists at a media briefing in Lusaka today that the Dialogue, which opens on next Monday, will discuss at specific topics that are key to the realisation of Vision 2030 particularly in the areas of energy, mining and agriculture.
Mr Mutati said Zambia will strive to learn from experiences and perspectives of other participating countries with a view to charting the way forward for Zambia to attain significant economic development.
Speaking at the same occasion a Private business sector specialist, John Mair, from the United Kingdom said dialogue on development issues enhances understanding on ways of achieve specific national goals.
Mr Mair said the real value for all participating countries and stakeholders will measured after the interactive dialogue.
And a Zimbabwean Trade Unionist, Isdore Zindonga, called on the media to play a proactive role in disseminating the information emanating from the dialogue.
The 2008 Global Southern Africa International Dialogue takes place in Lusaka from July 28 to 31, under the theme, ‘Smart Partnership in economic development and diversity.’
Seven African Heads of State have so far confirmed attendance out of the 14 who were invited.
The Dialogue will bring together ministers, representatives from civil society, labour movements and academia for informal dialogue on various development issues affecting developing countries.
Meanwhile, Luapula Province Permanent Secretary, Clement Siame, says government welcomes private sector partnership in the provision of social services in the country.
Speaking last night when he officiated at the induction dinner of Lions Club of Mansa new President, Ronald Chalwe, Mr Siame said government is determined to sustain enhanced service delivery in the social sector.
Mr Siame indicated that the growing demand for social services has strained the capacity by government to meet social needs hence the need for private sector involvement in meeting the benchmarks.
And Mr Siame has challenged public service workers to become selfless in the execution of their functions because the civil service is the biggest social service provider in the nation.
He also advised people of Mansa to consider joining the Lion Club and other organisations engaged in social work to enable the community derive maximum benefit from the organisation.
Earlier, Lions Governor 413, Luckson Chihana, asked government to consider engaging in permanent partnership with the Lions Club in the promotion of untapped tourism potential in the district.
Mr Chihana expressed happiness at efforts made by the Luapula province government administration in marketing the local tourism administration.
He suggested that the Lions Club could be an effective marketing tool for Zambia’s tourism investment due to its present in over 200 countries on the globe.
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Yes we can.sounds good to me.
Good to go! We need more progressive minds like Mutati in the right places. Then very soon our country will see better days. Oh yes we can!
#4 & 5 why dont you listen? what kind of *****s are you? *****s!!!
Thats F.C.C.A speaking.Respect the qualification.
he is just a wanker like everybody else! words are word!
…..words
Always have marved with the skill and delegency of Hon Mutati. Keep it up!
I haven’t seen any S.M.A.R.T plan for us to reach that go.
Always have marvelled with the skill and delegency of Hon Mutati. Keep it up!
#4, ACCA fellows are so conservative, and just very good for accounting, auditing and taxation. They’d rather not effect change but explain change when it’s made by others. Don’t get me wrong….I respect them, but think they’re not good at originating or driving change.
Mutati is the guy who made ZESCO to go broke,he basically killed the company thats why he got fired.He only got that job because of his Uncle at the then ZIMCO other wise it wasn’t going to happen.
#10 Dowela,
I respect your opinion of us accountants,but clearly you do not understand the vast fields our profession covers.we are not just ‘number crunchers’.At a later stage I shall be happy to give you a simple lecture on what we do for economies and businesses world wide.
#12 Thanks for the offer…I would certainly take it…though I’m CIMA, MBA myself.
#12 go ahead and explain what you do!! I dont understand what you fellas do apart from crunching numbers!!
It is a common practice to set targets, and yet Zambians are extremely poor at time management. So rhetoric indeed. Tikonda kuzimvela maningi. It is good that people are earning all sorts of qualifications. The question is; What are we doing with those qualifications? Why are we still poor? Why are we not creative? Why are leaving all investiment opportunities to the chinese?
Plz educate me MBA/CIMA holders & u accountants coz I’m a little behind. Has this SMART got anything 2 do wit objective being Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic & Time bound? I feel we r Unrealistically trying 2 achieve a lot of thingz which r not very specific & wit little regard 2 time. How r we going 2 measure th results of so many thingz? I mean we have MDGz,some comesa stuff regarding tariffs, sadc progs & a lot of internal programez. And is this under th so called vision 2030? I’m sure china has its own plans 4 Zambia tht we hav 2 impliment. I dont really get it, educate me.
I agree wit u # 15 regarding setting targets & failing 2 achieve then. But I also believe tht change shud involve all of us if we hav 2 stat achieving th set targets. This is not abt Zambians bt abt US coz we r th Zambian. As they say, “u cant score a goal by sitting on th bench” u hav 2 b in th game & participate positively. Are u game? Remember it begins wit u!
I agree wit u # 15 regarding setting targets & failing 2 achieve them. But I also believe tht change shud involve all of us if we hav 2 stat achieving th set targets. This is not abt Zambians bt abt US coz we r th Zambian. As they say, “u cant score a goal by sitting on th bench” u hav 2 b in th game & participate positively. Are u game? Remember it begins wit u!
I agree with you #5. These guys just talk to impress the people or to appear on TV or newspaper.
mutati is aman.i can see he is working.we need such people.
#13 and #14
I shall respond to your comments when I get back from church.
Economic development my word!
Awe mutati kabiye
No I wont baice
Tumeo why are you texting? Are you in Zed?
Zambeef, are you an accountant with ACCA made in matero.Tell us what benefits you personally bring to the firm you work for and the economy at large. Or maybe you need time to do a google search and then copy and paste.Talk is cheap!
Plz assist me to find the so called ba Joze.He has ran away after imprignating me.He promised me to take me to Saudi Arabia, plz help me.
#27,how can you do such a thing? did you go for an HUV test before you had it LIVE with ba Joze?
Yes Zambeef I’m within Zed.
#27,how can you do such a thing? did you go for an HIV test before you had it LIVE with ba Joze?
Ba Astrida, surely is that the sort of contribution you can make on this forum?
I think this Mutati is so much of a politician than an accountant. I’m sure he knoz he has a future in ZAMBIAN politics. But Mulongoti,Mpombo,grandpa Munkombwe & madam Saifwanda hav reached their expiry dates. I dont think they hav anything 2 offer. Sorry 2 say
the man is a crook, thug, sticking rich for nothing.but i want him to be the father of unborn child. am told kuku is knows his email.plsz anyone who knwz his email giv it 2me.
The solution here is simple. I dont advocate for naming he bridge after our president. I am not Bemba, but I think it wouldbe be right to name the bridge after a chief or something associated with the culture of the people of Luapula Province. It can even be named after a Chief, depending on how active he is, or an object or natural resources, event or something unique in the vicinity where the bridge has been erected. For instance in Southern Province, we have chirundu bridge a tonga world hwich means mountain and is not tied to anybody. If the Govt has failed, they should just nameit pedicle bridge !!However, it would be much better if the peopleof Luapula province could be heard!1
#15, 16 & 17, you’re right to the core…SMART is as in Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic & Time bound, and I don’t think one needs CIMA/MBA to realise that a goal without such characteristics will never come to be. Some of the greatest industrialists of this world have gone on record to say ‘A plan devoid of been S.M.A.R.T is a plan to fail’. Zambia generally lacks such plans…and it’s taking dialogue with foreigners for us to realise and accept this despite our qualifications…no wonder our plans along with our qualifications including CIMA/ACCA are not recognised in certain fast paced corners of the world.
# 34. Names are not very important. We need development, whatever name you give it. It does not matter which area. After all, we are one Zambia.
2030 vision is all well and good but we also need short term tangible and measurable plans (5yr intervals up to 2030). Given our politicians’ lack of seriousness, i’m very sceptical of such lofty plans when we fail to even implement a simple budget within any given fiscal yr as a nation! (ask Magande…). Also, Mutati’s credentials are questionable, his record at ZESCO is shady and we need more info on what really went down.
# 16 Tumeo, no matter how big or complicated a programme can be or sound it is made up of very small and simple activities which can be well planned and set to achieve the big goal. These small activites are undertaken by different specialised units. These units ideally must be coordinated by a central authority called govt., and every programme or project brought in by, say, the chinese, comesa or sadc should fall within this coordination so that they fit into the national, seemingly complicated programme. The situa in Zed at the moment is, we have the complicated goals like MDG’s without no micro activities or plans in motion. It’s like making a skyscraper without the 1st floor, impossible
May I introduce myself. I’m new on this blog and my name is Gunyu Masaka also known as the poor people’s Governor.
That guy is good at memorising his speech,maybe he sharp afterall, i mean maybe just maybe. anyway, why does Mpombo like using BIG WORDS.
Has any of u seen the absolute littleness of shúaibs penis ,
i mean how can a somalian disgrace us like that ,he likes raessah bhad and ayeshah yusuf and dreams about those lil skets
have u seen the largeness of sharmakes penis he has a porn leasbian film a
John Chiti has disappeared and rumour has it that he went to TZ where albinos are killed for muti.
vera chiluba to marry malawian presidentin dec.
I must admit tht I really enjoy high level thot provoking discussionz. I’ve this passion 4 knowledge & so I’m not shy 2 express my ignorance so tht I learn. I wud appreciate if we cud create a think tanks 2 act as a pool of knowledge 4 every Zambian 2 benefit 4om. Thanks Dowela & # 38. I really appreciate such.
breaking news
German has stopped supplying Zimbabwe with paper to print money. I say Mugabe is an *****. He is ready to fight to the last drop of every Zimbabwean and not his. What a bum.
Astrida you screwed a guy with no fixed aborde. Illicit Orgasms are good but the consequences are grave. You end up lookin for someone on the blog. Too bad
I think Zambia will never grow as long as we keep training almost everyone into an accoutant studying U.K based courses like Cima and Acca.I wonder how those good courses fit well into our economy but our emphasis should be on science and math.
Mba’s or whatever should not be courses that we encourage our children to take. We need more Doctors,Engineers,Pharmacists,Nurses and other highly productive careers.
all accountants do is manage the productivity created in terms of services or actual goods, this doesnt take the whole nation, we just need a few.please emphasise science and math or we are doomed!
HH steals lime light at the Umutomboko ceremony much to the annoyance of the govt officials present!! HH, go for it.
Its not a secret # 48 that HH is the only credible and most electable presidential candidate now. Come 2011, HH will be President of zambia i.e if he does his home work well. Zambia needs a leadership that will move this great and rich nation yet its people are very poor. Currently, its only HH who seems to offer a solution to this paradox. PF is gone, the sooner the Party leadership starts to prepare for his smooth exit from the politicalscene, the better for the survival of the party beyond 2008. they are so many credible people in PF who can take PF as a Party to greater hights than this old and tired man.
SATA IS THE GREATEST LIABILITY TO THE CONTINUITY OF PF. ITS TIME HE LEAVES THIS GAME TO OTHERS (CROP OF NEW LEADERS IN HIS PARTY). NO ONE CAN CONVINCE ME THAT THERE CAN BE A LEADERSHIP VACUUM IN PF WITHOUT SATA, GUY SCOOT IS RIGHT TO HAVE SUGGESTED THAT.
Breaking news…….. The zimbabwean has won mnet idols to the tune of us80000. Anyone with a 60 digit calculator to covert this figure in zim dollars.
#45Tumeo, thanks. Your idea of a think tank is standard in every modern economy, no matter how open they seem to be. Look at the way the US reacts to individuals who behave in ways that disturb their way life, Enron for e.g. Look at the Japanese govt and how it forcebly takes over companies just to ensure the nation is not deprived of a necessary service. These are results of ‘official’ think tanks that shape a country’s future. Look at how Obama’s been shifting in his foregn policy…his already been shaped to fit the American SMART goal. I suggest we start by opening a site called ‘think tank’ where we citizens can discuss what we feel are Zed’s priority problems and suggest SMART answers.
Number 51, that is the most hilarious thing I have read on this board.
Words of a greater thinker called Tumeo: “u cant score a goal by sitting on th bench”. All we who are armchair critics need to take hid from these wise words.
…..ZAMBIANS BEING REALISTIC IS GOOD, BUT YOU DON’T LOSE ANYTHING FROM BEING A LITTLE POSITIVE ALL THE TIME. TOO MUCH NEGATIVITY IS JUST NOT COOL!