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| Report on the First Annual Poverty Review Conference |
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5. CLOSING REMARKS
5.1 CLOSING REMARKS BY MR COSMAS MAMBO, PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, ZAMBIA SOCIAL INVESTMENT FUND (ZAMSIF)
In his closing remarks Mr. Mambo re-iterated the earlier calls that poverty was a big problem in Zambia. He acknowledged the expertise coming from the participants. Mr. Mambo emphasised that the success of PRSP depended on all participants. He commended the understanding of agencies whose attendance at the conference had disturbed their programmes. The conference had been rendered necessary by the desire of the organisers ( MOFNP and ZAMSIF) to learn from the participants.
Mr. Mambo announced that it would be a policy of ZAMSIF to hold annual conferences to see how poverty interventions were working. He noted that the diversity of papers presented had illustrated the complex nature of poverty. He pointed out that solutions to the poverty problem lay in both quantitative and qualitative data.
He noted that there was need to include the attendance of the victims, the poor people, at the next meeting so that the conference will also hear what they have to say about their condition. He assured all the participants that ZAMSIF would take into account all the issues that had been raised. He commended the chairperson, Mr. Magolo, for a job well done in moderating the proceedings.
5.2 CLOSING REMARKS BY THE CONFERENCE CHAIRPERSON MR. MAGOLO, THE PERMANENT SECRETARY LUSAKA PROVINCE
The conference chairman Mr. Magolo thanked the participants for their attendance of the conference. He commended government for coming up with the transitional development plan to help direct meagre resources to development programmes. He further commended government for introducing national planning and benefits that go with it. He noted that without national planning government departments were operating haphazardly.
Mr. Magolo declared that he had enjoyed the opportunity of being the chair of the conference as well as a participant. He apologised for the exclusion of some questions from consideration due to the time constraint. He thanked the secretariat for organising such an important workshop and noted that the ideas developed would help to develop future conferences.
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