Zambia

This Joint Staff Advisory Note (JSAN) focuses on the Second Annual Progress Report for Zambia’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). The government’s strategy to reduce poverty focuses on promoting economic growth through macroeconomic stabilization and diversification and improving the quality of service delivery, while addressing crosscutting issues of governance, HIV/AIDS, gender, and the environment. The JSAN provides IMF staff advice on priorities for advancing the PRSP implementation. It highlights progress in implementing the PRSP and provides suggestions for strengthening its implementation. The risks associated with implementation are also described.Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers;expenditure, expenditures, medium-term expenditure framework, mtef, expenditure management, public expenditure management, public expenditure, budget execution, expenditure framework, medium-term expenditure, decentralization, financial management, budgetary support, financial management system, total expenditure, budgetary discipline, composition of expenditures, public expenditures, resource allocation, budgetary constraints, budget control, budget planning, poverty reducing expenditures, budget support, annual budgets, budgetary activities, budgetary resources, recurrent expenditures, budget preparation, actual expenditures, sectoral budget