Public Finance Management: Recent submissions
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Ensuring Equity: The Preferential Option for the Poor in the K42 Billion Supplementary Budget No.1 of 2024
(2024-06-24)The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) acknowledges the Zambian government's K42 billion supplementary budget to address drought impacts, highlighting allocations for social cash transfers, school feeding ... -
Identifying and Analysing Challenges in Accessibility of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) Loans and Grants Among Women and Youths in Rural Communities: A Case of Mansa and Samfya Districts
(2024-04-14)This study, conducted by the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) in collaboration with the Zambian Financial Sector Deepening Limited (FSD Zambia), investigates the barriers hindering women and youths in rural ... -
The Impact of Debt Burden on the Well-being and Quality of Life of Citizens
(2024-02-09)Zambia faces a fiscal challenge common to many other underdeveloped nations in Africa: high, unsustainable debt burdens, fiscal mismanagement and undisciplined borrowing, poor resource allocation, government graft and ... -
Enhancing Transparency, Accountability & Community Participation in the Implementation of the Constituency Development Fund
(2023-12-07)Following the enhancement of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) budgetary allocation from K1.6 million to K25.7 million in 2022, and subsequently to K28.3 million in 2023, civil society expressed concern at the lack ... -
2022 Constituency Development Fund (CDF) Monitoring Report: Chisamba, Kasama, Livingstone & Masaiti Constituencies.
(2023-12-07)The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) conducted a Constituency Development Fund (CDF) monitoring exercise in May 2023 in four select constituencies to systematically collect information on the CDF processes ... -
Special Drawing Rights: Not a Sustainable Way of Supporting Zambia's National Budget
(2023-02-28)In August 2021, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) allocated by far the largest allocation to date of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) amounting to SDR 456.5 billion (equivalent to about US$650 billion). The purpose of ... -
Assessing the Allocation and Use of the Special Drawing Rights in Zambia
(2022-11-30)In August 2021, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) allocated by far the largest allocation to date of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) amounting to SDR 456.5 billion (equivalent to about US$650 billion). This allocation ... -
Connecting Budget Credibility and the Sustainable Development Goals : Results from 13 Country Investigations
(2022-10-30)Budget credibility is a challenge found in many developing countries. It is defined as the difference between the budget that is approved by a country’s legislature, the actual expenditures spent, and revenues collected ... -
Audit on Debt Strategies/Key Legal Reforms That Support The Financing For Development Agenda in Zambia
(2021-10)Debt has been a major source of development finance for Zambia since independence in 1964. In the last decade, the country has been on a steep learning curve, moving from largely concessional borrowing to non-concessional ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
APRM in Zambia
(2009-03)There are questions that many Zambians have! But not many of us have good answers! Not only do Zambians ask questions about governance, but so do the citizens of so many other African countries. And that is why there is - ... -
Study to Identify Challenges and Potential Success Factors Regarding Public Finance Management in Zambia
(2011-12)This study was commissioned by the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) to explore ways of promoting effective and efficient public resource management and service delivery through transparency, social accountability ... -
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 ... -
Report on the Jubilee Zambia Debt Campaign Opinion poll
(2002)The World Bank and the IMF launched the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative of debt reduction in 1997 in an attempt to address the debt problems of severely indebted low-income countries. As of January 2002, ... -
Final Report of the Evaluation of the Debt Project (October 1998-December 2001)
(2003-03-04)The CCJP/JCTR debt project was established in 1998 with the purpose of securing an ethical outcome to Zambia’s external debt problem, viewed as a burden on the people by the project holders. The main purpose of the evaluation ... -
The Taxation System in Zambia
(2011-01)Zambia is facing tax performance challenges that need to be addressed urgently. The declining tax performance in the recent past has been caused by the proliferation of tax incentives in Zambia. The premise of this study ... -
Debt Resource Monitoring Report (DRM)
(2010-11)The poor water supply and sanitation situation in the Central Province resulted the Zambian government to acquire a loan and grant amounting to US$33 million from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to embark on a US$36.9 ... -
Debt Resource Monitoring Manual
(2008)The achievements made so far in the campaign for debt cancellation need to be complemented by prudent management and utilisation of debt resources in the post HIPC era. In order to facilitate transparency and accountability ...
