2. WELCOME REMARKS BY THE PERMANENT SECRETARY, MINISTRY OF FINANCE AND NATIONAL PLANNING, MR LIKOLO NDALAMEI
In his welcome remarks, Mr. Ndalamei, the Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Finance and National Planning, thanked the participants for having found time to attend the conference. He informed the delegates that the conference, which was organised by the Planning and Economic Management Department of the Ministry of Finance and National Planning in collaboration with the Poverty Monitoring and Analysis component of the Zambia Social Investment Fund (ZAMSIF), would from now onwards be held every year. These annual conferences would review and update the country’s poverty situation. He hoped that the Ministry of Finance and National Planning would endeavour to use these poverty annual review activities and resulting reports as a monitoring and evaluation tool to assess government performance in reducing poverty in the country. This would be within the context of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP).
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