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Caritas rules out incapacity on delay in decentralization

Caritas rules out incapacity on delay in decentralization
By Christopher Miti in Chipata
Mon 23 Apr. 2012, 13:27 CAT

CARITAS-Chipata governance unit coordinator John Mthaziko Zulu says the delay to implement the decentralisation policy should not be attributed to the alleged lack of capacity by the local authorities.

During the Eastern Province discussion forum on service delivery for sustainable development following the launch of the 2011 Zambia Human Development Report on Thursday, Zulu said when looking at the capacity of the local authorities, focus should not be on the people currently holding the offices but the structure of the system of the local authority.

"If we have all the structures in place as stipulated, I think it will be very easy to find people and fit them in those structures. So what type of capacity are we talking about? So definitely we see this excuse as a way of delaying the implementation of the decentralisation policy," Zulu said.

He said currently service delivery seemed to be difficult because the country had a big government and a small community.

"What we need to do now is to turn things we need to have a small government and a big community or society. We must see a lot of activities happening in our society, the planning, the implementation and the monitoring should be done within our society not the central government," Zulu said.

And Eastern Province youth coordinator David Musonda said the youth should be actively involved in service delivery and development of the country.

Musonda said according to statistics, youths were still the majority in the country and that they could play a big role in the development of the country.

Musonda said youths were heavily impacted by issues that the Zambia Human Development 2011 Report had reflected such as education, health and agriculture.

Labels: CARITAS, DECENTRALIZATION, JOHN MTHAZIKO ZULU

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