This Act governs the implementation of the activities, actions and processes to be undertaken or observed for the Project under the Millennium Challenge Compact and the Program Implementation Agreement between the United States and Zambia of 2012. The Act sets out the implementation framework and defines duties of the Millennium Challenge Account Zambia (MCA-Zambia). The Minister may, by Statutory Instrument, make Regulations to give effect to this Act. Schedule 1 of this Act sets out the Millennium Challenge Compact. The goal of this Compact is to reduce poverty through economic growth in Zambia. Assistance will be provided in a manner that strengthens good governance, economic freedom and investments in the people of Zambia. The objective of the Project is to expand access to, and improve the reliability of, water supply and sanitation, and improve drainage services in select urban and peri-urban areas of the city of Lusaka in order to decrease the incidence of water-borne and water-related diseases, generate time savings for households and businesses and reduce non-revenue water in the water supply network.
Zambia · 2013-03-22