”Zambia’s Seventh National Development Plan is an important basis for the advancement and industrialisation of the country through sectors such as agriculture, infrastructure development, health, and education.” The Japanese International Cooperation Agency JICA has said.
JICA President Professor Sinichi Kitaoka says the character of Zambia mirrors that of Japan as the country’s “approach is to dialogue in arriving at policy mixes that result in the optimization of the outcomes of our development cooperation”
The visiting Japanese official was speaking when he paid a courtesy on Zambia’s Minister of Finance Margaret Mwanakatwe at her office in Lusaka.
The Minister said Japan’s assistance, spanning years of cooperation, manifests in various forms and totals over USD2 Billion.
Meanwhile Ms Mwanakatwe has disclosed that Japan’s assistance, spanning years of cooperation, manifests in various forms and totals over USD2 Billion.
“We are now busy planning our Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF),” stated the Minister, adding that, “among the priority sectors targeted at advancing our macro-economic development and bringing about the social upliftment that we want to see are education, health, agriculture and tourism.”