• Japan will provide a Grant of up to Eighty-Nine Million Three Hundred Thousand Japanese Yen
• The support follows a request by the government for the Japanese government to consider providing support for improvement of Livingstone museum.
• The grant will be provided through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) over a period of 2 years, from 2023 to 2025

Minister of Finance and National Planning has revealed that Japan will provide a Grant of up to Eighty-Nine Million Three Hundred Thousand Japanese Yen, equivalent to about K11.6 Million, for implementation of the improvement of equipment for Research, Conservation, Exhibition and Education project for at the Livingstone Museum.
Speaking during the signing ceremony for exchange of notes for the improvement of Equipment for Research, Conservation, Exhibition and Education project, Dr. Situmbeko Musokotwane stated that the support follows a request by the government for the Japanese government to consider providing support for the improvement of the Livingstone museum.
Dr. Musokotwane said the overall objective of the project is to promote the understanding of national heritage and to improve heritage 5 value and its conservation through improving equipment necessary for educational programs among others.
He added that the grant will be provided through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) over a period of 2 years, from 2023 to 2025.
“The Support to the Museum, therefore, demonstrates Japan’s commitment to support the tourism sector in addition to the other sectors that have been supported over the years .This support has come at an opportune time when the government has embarked on an agenda to revamp and further develop the tourism sector which was recently affected severely by the adverse effects of the Covid 19 pandemic,” he said.
“The sector is one of the drivers of the government’s transformative agenda as it stimulates economic growth. It is for this reason that the Zambian government will in the next 5 years develop certain parts of the country by establishing the necessary infrastructure to make them more attractive for more tourism investment, “he add.
And speaking at the same event, JICA Zambia Chief Representative Norihito Yonebayashi was optimistic that with the implementation of this project, educational programs at Livingstone Museum will have a diversified experience and quality of research papers.
“With this project , educational programs at Livingstone Museum will be improved, cooperation relationship with other research institutes will be promoted, exhibition methods will be more diversified, environment conditions for the collections will be improved and last but the least the exhibitions will be more attractive to visitors,” he said.