Achieving equality through capacity building Gotlieb Kalombo

Attaining economic equality at regional level remains a reverie for this country as long as we have regions that have communities that depend on communal farming as their source of living. The communities may have sources of food because of farming, but, how about income since we are living in an economic world? How do we fight inequality at regional level that is caused by regional resources disparity, illiteracy, and lack of economic development, unemployment and poverty? How do we close the gap between the poor and the rich? How do we close rural and urban development inequality? How do we close regional development disparity to attain economic equality?

Many people if not most in the northern regions are illiterate or semi-literate, and do not have qualifications and skills to grant them opportunities for employment.

How do we then pull the rural illiterate or semi-literate population into the economic environment to attain equality? The key is through reviewing our development policies, education policies, and the creation of regional industrialization and establishment of state regional factories.

However, for regional industrialization to have an effective impact on the lives of the rural people, capacity building should first be developed to prepare the rural communities for regional revolution.

If capacity building is developed then we can have industries, factories and projects that incorporate the skilled and semi-skilled.

If rural people and the uneducated are not prepared and given relevant or marketrelated training for regional revolution, regional industrialization will only solve the unemployment situation for those that have qualifications and the poor who are the majority will remain in poverty, and inequality would not be addressed.

Centres should be built in regions to prepare the communities. For example, a sewing training centre for the unemployed rural women. If unemployed and illiterate women are trained in this field then clothes manufacturing factories can be opened in a region employing local people or they can become self-employed.

To end with, all is achievable, inequality can be addressed if only capacity building is achieved at local level and only if regional industrialization is put into action.