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SITEKI – The Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, through its Macro Economic Analysis and Research Unit, has engaged stakeholders in data compilers and users.
According the ministry’ Second Quarter Performance Report the ministry engaged key programme managers across government to prepare and produce the evaluation report on the country’s efforts to implement the African Union development agenda (Agenda 2063), which is currently awaiting Cabinet approval.
Presenting the report to the portfolio committee on Wednesday, Economic Planning Minister Dr Tambo Gina said his ministry continued to produce national statistics during the quarter under review.
The minister said the Central Statistical Office (CSO) produced the monthly consumer price index (CPI) as a measure of the current rate of inflation to the harmonised CPI for Southern African Development Community (SADC) and Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) quarterly producer price index (PPI), national accounts and hotel accommodation statistics.
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Adding, the Lubulini Member of Parliament (MP) said under the Multi-Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS), the production of analytical tables was at advanced stage.
He said the Micro-Projects Unit completed 191community driven projects as an addition to the 210 reported in the previous quarter.
He further highlighted that the projects comprised of veterinary offices, low level bridges, foot bridges and community hall electricity schemes.
“About 41 projects were completed but are still at Defects Liability Period (DLP) stage. At least 43 against 251 in the previous in the quarter were completed comprising of classrooms, staff houses, kitchen, administration block, fence installations and carpentry fittings,” he said.
Furthermore, the minister said under the Regional Development Fund (RDF), 31 projects compared to 401 the previous were implemented.
Gina stated that currently, 389 ongoing projects were still under the implementation process compared to 425 in the previous quarter comprising of 60 IGPs and 229 infrastructure projects.
He further informed the committee that he recently represented government at the annual summit of the SADC, which was held in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC in August 2022, where the chairmanship was handed over from the Republic of South Africa to the president of DRC.
“Also, through the SADC unit, the ministry completed the Strengthening Regional Linkanges (SRL) project which entails costing of the regional SADC indicative plan (RISDP), training of planning officers and non-State actors on regional integration and operations under the SADC office,” Gina said.