Zambia

A Government Finance Statistics (GFS) technical assistance (TA) mission visited Lusaka, Zambia, during November 27–December 8, 2017, to support the Central Statistical Office (CSO) in improving GFS for decision making and surveillance. The mission assisted the authorities in enhancing methodologies and the compilation of GFS according to the updated Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014) and the Public-Sector Debt Statistics Guide 2011 (PSDSG 2011); and followed up on the findings and recommendations of a previous GFS TA mission conducted in April 2016, that had as main recommendations: (i) the establishment of a coordinating committee between relevant departments to facilitate compilation of GFS; (ii) the review and finalization of institutional coverage and sectorization of public sector units; and (iii) addressing a number of compilation issues.