The Southern African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes (SACCORD) has called for a cohesive approach towards fulfilling the commitments in the Fifth National Development Plan (FNDP)
SACCORD Information Officer Michelo Mwango said government needs to closely monitor and guide the different sectors outlined in the Fifth National Development Plan (FNDP) and ensure that all obligations were met.
Ms Mwango was speaking during a launch and dissemination of the SACCORD governance sector of the Fifth National Development Plan (FNDP) report for 2008 in Solwezi last evening.
She said SACCORD, in partnership with German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), conducted an exercise to monitor the progress government was making in implementing obligations of the governance and human rights sectors of the FNDP in decentralization, public order Act, human rights and constitutionalism in Solwezi and Sesheke.
Ms Mwango said the exercise also aimed at highlighting successes and failures in order to help improve the performance of government in line with key performance indicators in the FNDP.
She said government needs to recognize the role of the civil society in the implementation of the FNDP by encouraging pro–FNDP programmes among by civil Society organizations
Ms Mwango noted that with the FNDP coming to a conclusion in 2010, there was need for more campaigns at grass root level for Zambians to understand strides that the government has made in implementing the plan.
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Most of these reports are not accurate because there is no transparency when it comes to the implementation of development plans in Zambia. I hope the German Technical Cooperation was as strict and as systematic as I know them to be when they were conducting this exercise.
All Greek to me.