Ministry of National Development Planning Zambia

The Ministry of National Development Planning is broadly responsible for the following functions:

Coordinating the setting of the national vision, goals and development priorities and engender consensus among various stakeholders;
 Facilitating the preparation of long and medium term national development plans in order to promote economic diversification and rapid socio-economic growth and development;
 Monitoring and Evaluating the implementation of national development plans, programmes and projects in order to ensure timely implementation, value for money and attainment of set objectives;
 Coordinating the production and dissemination of quality official statistics for timely policy intervention, planning, decision making and research;
 Coordinating project identification, design and appraisal of public investments to facilitate attainment of set objectives;
 Coordinating the production and dissemination of quality official statistics for timely policy intervention, planning, decision making and research;
 Coordinating project identification, design and appraisal of public investments to facilitate attainment of development