CHAMBWA MOONGA
Lusaka
VICE-PRESIDENT Mutale Nalumango says the New Dawn administration is resolved to enhancing the welfare of citizens, especially the poor and vulnerable, hence the huge budgetary allocation to social protection programmes.
“If poverty levels are high, you (experts) are there to help us to develop the policies that can help us to reduce poverty,” she said when she opened a three-day regional conference for southern Africa on poverty reduction and climate resilience in Lusaka yesterday.
The regional conference has brought together a unique and powerful mix of policy-makers, development partners,
civil society organisations (CSOs), private sector actors, and regional and international experts to advance social and climate justice across the region and beyond.
Mrs Nalumango said at the end of the conference, she wants to hear solutions, unlike resolutions, to tackling poverty.
She said poverty reduction remains a priority across southern and eastern Africa, adding that despite decades of policy attention and development investments, poverty rates have remained high.
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