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Wastage Of Public Resources Should Never Be Allowed To Continue
(2012-02-01)In a poor country like Zambia where poverty levels are as high as 63% and the incidence of rural poverty as high as 78%, every ngwee counts and should therefore be collected and spent for the intended purpose and beneficiaries. ... -
Press Statement on The Auditor General’s Report on The Accounts of The Republic For The Financial Year Ended 31St December, 2013
(2013)The Report is rather gloomy and bleak in respect of the utility of public resources pointing to prevalence of resource disutility in the public service. There are many questions than answers regarding the operation of the ... -
Cost Benefit Analysis of Employment Created By Zambia Agribusiness
(2013-03)Zambia is endowed with abundant natural resources, but in spite of the nation’s potential the problems of unemployment, underemployment and poverty have not been meaningfully alleviated by substantial investment and a fast ... -
Domestic Resource Mobilisation For Sustainable Development
(2014)TPIN stands for Tax Payer Identification Number. It can be likened to a National Registration Card (NRC) number for a Zambian citizen. It is the official ten (10) digits number that ZRA issues to a Tax registered individual ... -
Enhancing Tax Revenue Collection in Zambia: Promoting Sustainable Development And Eradicating Poverty
(2015)This policy brief presents evidence on the Zambian tax system. Its core argument is that we need a radical overhaul of the tax system in order to increase domestic revenue to spend on measures to reduce poverty. In Annex ... -
Analysis of The Reports of The Auditor General on The Accounts For The Financial Year Ended 31St December 2015 And Review of Operations of Local Authorities For 2015
(2017)The JCTR has over the years advocated improvement in Zambian citizens’ access to essentials of life. They include access to education, health, water and sanitation. Select cases of concern have therefore been identified ... -
Media Statement on Public Finance Management In Zambia
(2017)The members of civil society are concerned with the current public financial management situation within which we find ourselves as Zambians. The Auditor General’s Report every year reveals how colossal sums of money are ... -
Continued Increase In Public Funds Abuse/Waste Worrying
(2017-11-08)The office of the auditor general on 2nd November, 2017, released a report on the Accounts of the Republic for the financial year ending 31st December 2016. The Jesuit centre for theological reflection is concerned with ... -
Continued Increase in Public Funds Abuse/Waste Worrying
(2017-11-08)Zambia has many developmental challenges to continue on the path of wasteful use of public resources. In the last few years, government has struggled to balance its incomes with expenditure partly due to reduced economic ... -
Implementation of Select Health Projects at Livingstone Central Hospital
(2018)Over the years, the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) has monitored the use of public financial resources in an effort to foster accountability by public officers. Some works have included analysing issues ... -
Analysis of The Report of The Auditor General on The Accounts of Financial Year Ending 31St December 2017
(2019)The Auditor-General’s Office in Zambia has a constitutional mandate to audit use of all public resources in the Republic to strengthen accountability and transparency with the aim of building public confidence. This is ... -
The Proposed Refinancing Strategy of US $750 Million Eurobond Might Lead Zambia Into A Sovereign Debt Crisis
(2019)The planned contraction of a private equity to amortize Zambia’s US$ 750 million Eurobond is a disaster in-waiting. JCTR is apprehensive with regard to use of a private equity to refinance the country’s Eurobond as the ... -
Understanding the usage of Constituency Development Fund (CDF) in Zambia: The Case of Education, Health, Water and Sanitation Projects
(2019-05)Constituency Development Fund (CDF) is the generic name for a policy tool that dedicates public money to benefit specific political subdivisions through allocations and/or spending decisions influenced by their representatives ... -
JCTR Demands Action On The 2018 FIC Report
(2019-06-13)In 2013, the Patriotic Government decided to enact the Financial Intelligence Centre Bill which was drafted in 2010 by the previous Government and establish the Financial Intelligence Centre. This was a progressive move ... -
Understanding the Usage of Constituency Development Fund (CDF) in Zambia: The Case of Education, Health, Water and Sanitation Projects In Chishipula, Kapulanga, Chamboli and Simoonga Communities
(2019-07)In Zambia, the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) was introduced in 1995 as “instrument” to facilitate the deliverance of public developmental goods and services directly to local communities. Despite the introduction of ... -
2020 Budget Address By Honourable Dr. Bwalya K.E. Ng’Andu, MP, Minister of Finance, Delivered to the National Assembly on Friday 27th September, 2019
(2019-09-27)The Minister of Finance asked to move that the House do resolve into Committee of Supply on the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the year 1st January, 2020 to 31st December, 2020 presented to the National Assembly ... -
2020 National Budget Doesn’t Offer Much Relief to Ordinary Citizens
(2019-10-01)In 2020, government has targeted a growth of 3%. This simply means that the current hardships majority citizens are facing will continue. Challenges such as lack of access to basic nutritious food, limited employment ... -
National Budget And Citizen Participation
(2019-11-05)A budget is a plan for future income and expenditure that is used as guideline for spending, saving or investing.The budget cycle refers to and includes all the processes, procedures and activities by which government ... -
Understanding Zambia’s Debt And it’s Impact on Social Development
(2020)This report presents the findings, discussions and recommendations of the study in entitled, “Understanding Zambia’s Debt and Its (Social) Impact,” commissioned by the Jesuit Center for Theological Reflection (JCTR) with ... -
JCTR’s Reflections on the 2020 National Budget
(2020)The JCTR’s Kasama Office has over the years been engaged in advocacy and lobbying of policy makers in order to promote social justice for all people epically the poor. On 4th July, 2019, stakeholders drawn from Health, ...