Budget execution and service delivery recorded a decline for the period of January to June 2011 and July to December 2011 by 4 percentage points from an average score of 44 to 40 percent respectively.
This is according to Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) national budget execution and service delivery barometer.
CSPR information officer Diana Ngula tells QFM that the decline implies that government minimally met a number of aspects of budget execution and service delivery and has since attributed the decline to lack of transparency and accountability as well as a decline in basic service delivery and management among others.
Ms. Ngula notes that the barometer has not shown significant change in the poor people’s livelihoods during the period under review despite the country having registered positive economic growth during the same period.
Ms. Ngula notes that while there were some significant political commitments to human development as demonstrated in the six national development plan (SNDP), this did not match with the requisite resource allocation, especially towards social protection.
She adds that under the same period, they were consistent patterns of uneven distribution of services across districts with basic service delivery being biased towards the urban areas but living out the marginalized and vulnerable.
Ms. Ngula further stresses that the continuing challenges in basic service delivery have impeded significant impacts on human developments.
Ms. Ngula has since urged government to begin to conceptualize human development as a series of investments to increase capacity and promote a more equitable and inclusive society.
QFM
There are too many non profit, non entities organisations in Zambia and who are the CSPR
I would love to see the PF remove the freedom of press
This Diana talking here sounds like someone who knows little about themselves let alone the Constitution. Why is she being given a platform to air out her drivels?
Someone pass the puke bucket !
Thanks
VERY DISAPPOINTING: Failure to apply budgets for the intended use must be criminalised. This is what is creating fertile grounds for debates regarding the Barotseland Agreement. Am not condoning these debates, but those raising it give underdevelopment as their justification for doing so. We cannot have civil servants failing to apply budgets to developmental programmes within the stipulated timeframes while we continue to have empty dispenseries at health institutions, no clean and reliable water supply and sanitation schemes for our people. There are critical shortages of desks and learning materials in schools while tax payers’ money collected for this purpose remains unspent; charge these culprits with neglegence and incompetence and fire them. Bloody EVIL SERVANTS!!
@1 MUSHOTA: Your puke is always in your mouth, so must run around looking for the puke bucket yourself – we were not there when you were phonicating to get pregnant!