REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA
MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND SOCIAL SECURITY
(Press Release)
MINISTRY OF LABOUR INITIATES RE-ASSESMENT OF NATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY POLICY
Lusaka 17th March 2025…The Ministry of Labour and Social Security has commenced the review of the National Productivity Policy, to align it with the emerging trends on the labour market.
Since its initiation in 2021, the National Productivity Policy (NPP) was tailored to enhance productivity across Zambia’s sectors, ensuring viable economic growth and job creation with a focus on enterprise productivity improvement support, Productivity Consciousness awareness, Support to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and community engagement on productivity.
The review seeks to address the gaps in the modifications of the National Development plan, priorities and agenda, awareness and adoption of productivity improvement tools and practices together with the limited capacity of the institutions implementing the policy.
Other issues to be considered are: the weak institutional frameworks for implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of productivity, and emerging issues of climate change and digital transformation.
Speaking when he launched the review of the National Productivity Policy in Kafue today, Ministry of Labour and Social Security Permanent Secretary Zechariah Luhanga urged technocrats under the Ministry’s National Productivity Development Department (NPDD) and other stakeholders to devise an inclusive and progressive national productivity policy that will
tackle the decline of overall productivity growth.
Mr. Luhanga also emphasized on the establishment of a legal framework that promotes and measures productivity in the country. He further directed the technocrats to come up with a draft policy in an efficient and cost-effective manner in line with President Hakainde Hichilema’s directive of doing more with less.
“I therefore expect the new policy to be ready by the end of the second quarter so that a standard which can be replicated across other similar tasks is set, “said Mr. Luhanga.
Issued by:
Mwaka Ndawa
Principal Public Relations Officer
