Chakwera to preside over National Development Conference tomorrow

By Chisomo Phiri

President Lazarus Chakwera will tomorrow Thursday February 2,2023 preside over the 2022-2023 National Development Conference at Bingu National Convention Centre ( BICC) in Lilongwe.

According to the statement signed by the Secretary to the President and Cabinet Colleen Zamba, Chakwera will arrive at the function at 8:00 am.

The conference, to be held under the theme: ‘Malawi 2063 One Year On: Forging Concerted Efforts on the Journey to Wealth Creation and Self-Reliance ‘ will see the participants review the progress the country has made in the implementation of the Malawi 2063 national vision.

The Malawi 2063 is a long term national multi sectoral vision of Malawi for the period 2020-2063.

Its main objective is to transform Malawi into a youth-centric inclusive wealthy and self-reliant industrialized upper middle-income country.

The vision is anchored on three key pillars, namely; agricultural productivity and commercialisation, industrialisation, and urbanisation which are to be catalysed by seven enablers, namely; mind-set change, effective governance system, public sector performance, private sector dynamism, human capital development, economic infrastructure, and environmental sustainability.