Government says it needs qualified and competent people to execute Public Private Partnerships (PPP) projects for the purpose of cutting down on appointments of foreign experts.
Commerce Trade and Industry Deputy Minister, Richard Taima, said capacity building at local level had to be a continuous process if qualified and competent individuals were to be identified for the short and long term implementation of PPP projects within the country.
Mr Taima said this during the on-going Public Private Partnerships and Project Finance workshop organized by Zesco at Chrisma Hotel in Livingstone yesterday.
He said despite PPPs being an attractive mechanism for large businesses as they were more viable for big projects, the local private sector dominated by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) still had opportunities to participate in project implementation through supply of materials and sub-contracting.
Mr Taima said government would strive to empower local entrepreneurs through programs like the Citizens Economic Empowerment fund and business development services to enhance their capacity to explore wider business opportunities.
He said government would not use the current economic problems the country was facing as an excuse to withhold support for the growth of emerging businesses since they had potential to contribute to economic growth.
Mr Taima emphasized the need for the country to counter the risks and threats resulting from the global financial crisis through stronger positive measures and increased private sector participation in economic programs.
Earlier, chairman for the PPP Working Group, Dr Francis Ndilila, called for PPPs not to end up as academic programs but to result in profit, prosperity and progress for the nation.
Dr Ndilila, who is also National Construction Council chairman, said Zambia had great opportunities for implementation of PPPs especially in the housing sector which, he said, had a multiplier effect in the economy of as much as 18 times.
Dr Ndilila said it was unfortunate most home owners in the country resorted to self-induced mortgages when opportunities for formal financing by the private sector lay idle.
He said the country had lost out on big programs like hosting of the 2011 All Africa Games and development of infrastructure to benefit from the spill-over of activities from the 2010 FIFA World Cup because government had not involved the private sector.
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good news
Let the Zambians profit on this one. my people are l-)
Sounds OK to me, but let me read properly first.l-)
Ni Scramble for Numbala 1 ? Naya mayo
LT naena nga fumya mulongo !
Government: :-@:-@:-@:-t:-t
nice move:)>-
This data is impressive. On “Mr Taima said government would strive to empower local entrepreneurs through programs like the Citizens Economic Empowerment fund and business development services to enhance their capacity to explore wider business opportunities.” Please, help us to access Credit facilities from Banks and not CEEP only.
Just look to South Africa to see and learn how its banking services work for the people in that Country.
Otherwise, I agree with “Dr Francis Ndilila, called for PPPs not to end up as academic programs but to result in profit, prosperity and progress for the nation” although I will coin it as People, People and People following how I learnt business strategy.
The PPP framwork is ok…nevertheless GRZ need to harmonise the PPP policy with tender processes.
One would be of the opnion that while PPP call for ‘single sourcing’ the current tender procedure call for lenghty and complicated tender processes which has adverse effect on implementation of PPP projects.
GRZ also should just sound sensible in workshops, but these learned official must support Zambians in a practical sense. Otherwise this is just lip service.
Baby C
Iam in love with you.
This is just another academic exercise,give it four or five years and it will just die a natural death.
Muzapeza ati chi baby C nichi gonga guys , muna onako mpompo wamushe busy entertaining lonely fellaz online? Muza peza chi baby C nichi dumbo maliketi chamene chi byuxa mendo .Mpopa ku paka pa chalo buti imwe busy kungo pisha vidumbo vapa blog vamene vinunka kwati vi mbombo
owe basoaaap shamwali !!!
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dumbo temuntu?wamene dumbo niwamene nifuna
Ah Phiri #12 language iyi. Tiyetipase ulemu akazi olo nividumbo. 😮
PPP is a conduit for corruption.
# 12 Ah PHIRI,you belong to the Kaponya family.
Chi phiri iwe, you are wrong. Cutey and maureen ema go’nga!
Infact i also like babyc but she plays hard to get!
Amazing! Zambia’s politics is, in my own view, the highest risk an investor in PPP or PFI would be taking. The country will be paying through the nose for any PPP service. Just review the status of the country in terms of ‘the ease with which a person can conduct business in Zambia’. The World bank has ratings!! Qualified manpower!! We are here working in Developed nations where infrastructure development is given the seriousness it deserves. Zambian Government prefers foreigners to Locals!! They think foreiners know better than locals. Keep dreaming!!
My problem is that the same government is seeking to sale Zamtel externally instead of encouranging PPP’s within the qualified Zambians who can seek for external investors.
Roads, Motor ways or free ways, water treatment plants, sewarage treatment plants, oil refinaries, just to name a few to not grow like trees planted by teh creator. We aught to plan for them, and above all, implement the plans. Yet in Zambia we end at planning (budgetting stage); the following year, we do not review what was spent and or what remains. Yet the so called leaders know how other countries have built such things to make life easy for their people. The reason is simple: with disorder politics can thrive; hence the confusion. I mean what does Mulongoti know that he can be made ‘Minister of Works and Supply’? Disgusting!!
Do or die Baby C.forget about those trying “ukunjinga”
Iwe zimbwabwean nichani? ufana che dumbo chifukwa ulibe mattress shaaaa!!!
nayenda ku market firsti nikagula oilo yamu koloboi
Ah Phiri “anabwela”.nipase mphata.wakoniwako
basop!!
dumbo alina manyefu kwati willyballa mwandi, si choncho? Buti dumbo ni olema maningi kwati ma bag ya cement. Elo ahnakazi bapa blog bali ku diaspora bakudya KFC na makydonald everyday so kuina monga nkumba
okay.i have hoped for CHIZA’S LEGS.If you stop me then i do not know.
Leave baby c alone! Chi phiri kuipa. Anso you are a girl! Wamvela chabe nsanje chifukwa palibe wamene akukonda. Attention seeker .
IT IS VERY MUCH OBVIOUS THAT IF A PERSON APPEARS ON DIFFERENT THREADS ( AROUND THIS TIME) AND GOES ANONYMOUS ON SOME THREADS AND THE POST INSULTS , THAT WE ARE ABLE TO PICK YOU OUT WITHOUT EVENT TRACING YOUR IP!!! YOU FLAG UNVEILS YOU!! PLS NO INSULTS ON THIS BLOG
Mr Time do you believe what you said or you just read it?
Here I come, please give me job!! :-w
‘Dr Ndilila said it was unfortunate most home owners in the country resorted to self-induced mortgages when opportunities for formal financing by the private sector lay idle’.
This information is not in the public domain and even if it was, accessing these funds would mean bribing people responsible. It is through such systems where corruption is rooted. Many graduates are languishing along the streets of Zambian cities/towns yet you are more than willing to pay the so called expatriates thousands of dollars. If you want Zambian graduatess to work and contribute to the development of the nation, PAY THEM HANDSOMELY…!!:-w
Ah Phiri,
You did not undrestand me,i meant these ladies contributions on blocks is effectively and deserves to be recommended.
l did not mean,you interpret it like that. I
What has Baby C ever done to y’all to deserve this malice people? It is one thing debating issues at hand but another getting personal…come on now. Quit resorting to malice and at least show ka ulemu to people you don’t know. Nichani kansi…? :-w
We conducted a survey of our MPs in Zambia. The shocking revelation is that less than 10% of our MPs are employable anywhere in the world. About 15% could be employable somewhere in Zambia or in Africa. But the rest, I am sorry to say they can never be employed anywhere in the world.
So, what does that tell you about them awarding contracts to you and I, the people who can work professionally anywhere in the world? They do not want you near their newly found cake -Parliament and that is the fight on your hands guys. Take them on because they are mostly inexperienced but manipulative.
#34 True!!
#31 JD.
I sincerely agree with you that the majority of articles on LT fail to provide contact information for those that may want to pursue what is being discussed. This just makes reading these articles a waste of time to most people. Let’s hope therre will be a change. One Zambia One Nation.
Thats intersting to hear, but i hope it will benefit people who genuinly deserve to be a part of the project. Please come up with more of such projects, way to go!
Qualified people are needed in PF indeed
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You mean there are no qualified people in Pf
#34 You are very right. UPND has the most qualified MPs, but they’re dwanzy. PF has a few really qualified MPs, but because the majority of them are not qualified…………..well, the qualified ones will not be noticed. MMD MPs, very useless.
Greetings to all
Mr Minister, Zambia has more than enough competent, skilled and qualified (if not over qualified) individuals to do any job. What may be missing are good labour guidelines/laws and incentives to encourage most Zambians to take up such appointments. GRZ should avoid as much as possible engaging foreign consultants/contractors where there is local capacity.
A reminder to President RB: ZAMBIA IS NOT FOR SALE – ZAMTEL IS NOT FOR SALE. You may have Zimbabwe but we only have ‘One Zambia’.
Zambia – like the rest of Africa – is like a typical chickenrun where primodial brutes, mystics and retards call the shots while the rest of us march backwards to the 15th century like zombies!
Are these pipom saying that their are no educated, or qualified pipo pa Zed?