Siphakeme .Mnindwa
Sukulwenkosi Dube-Matutu, [email protected]
DRIVING solid development demands hands-on approaches, which must be embraced by all Government departments, agencies and partners to ensure Zimbabwe achieves its transformative targets in line with Vision 2030, a senior official has said.
Speaking during the first quarter Provincial Development Committee (PDC) meeting, Matabeleland South Secretary for Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Mrs Lathiso Dlamini-Maseko, said all developmental players were expected to produce reports each quarter, which indicate growth.
She said all programmes were expected to be in line with national and provincial guiding frameworks such as the National Development Strategy and the provincial strategic plan, among others.
The meeting was attended by Government ministries, agencies and developmental partners.
“Under the whole-of-Government approach, we are saying that as various arms of Government we have to work together in order realise development,” said Mrs Dlamini-Maseko.
“This applies to ministries, public administrations, public agencies as well as development partners.
“This PDC platform provides us with another opportunity as the provincial leaders to plan and move the development agenda for the growth of our province,” she said.
“One way that we will be tracking down this growth will be through reports and, therefore, we expect reports to be submitted each month.”
Mrs Dlamini-Maseko urged stakeholders to take note that they are not just representatives of different ministries, departments or agencies but are pioneers, innovators, and change-makers who must help realise Vision 2030 on behalf of the province.
She urged them to continue working collectively and collaboratively for easy implementation of development projects, programmes and Government policies.
The permanent secretary also raised concern over the poor performance by some departments in the province and challenged directors to up their game and self-introspect with a sole target of identifying gaps and coming up with strategies to cover them.
Mrs Dlamini-Maseko said the province needs to use its comparative advantages to gain significant milestones.
“Take note that 2024 was the final year of implementation of NDS1 and very soon we will be measuring our performance as a province against our NDS1 targets and provincial supporting blueprints such as our Provincial Economic Development Plan hence I urge you all to take your work very seriously,” she said.
“As we carry out our mandates, let’s innovate. Let’s not find ourselves taking the same route as we did in 2024. Where we had shortcomings, we need to re-strategise and refocus so as to achieve meaningful results this year,” she said.
“Let us shun complacency. Gone are the days when could be content with being stagnant.”
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