RB announces ZIBAC meeting for Livingstone

President Rupiah Banda on May 18 says the 6th Zambia International Business Advisory Council (ZIBAC) will be convene in Livingstone from May 19 to 21, 2009. He says the 6th ZIBAC meeting, would be held at the Zambezi Sun in Livingstone, would comprise a team of ten high-level business leaders from different countries and business sectors led by Lord Simon Cairns. He says the theme of this year’s ZIBAC meeting is “The Global Economic Crisis: Zambia’s Response to Growth and Competitiveness.”

President Banda will officially open the ZIBAC meeting May 20 and would later chair some sessions before returning to Lusaka. The ZIBAC process was used in the past to identify key priorities and action plans to address issues such as telecoms policy, labour reforms, and private public partnerships for infrastructure development, citizen’s economic empowerment and mining agreements.

The 6th ZIBAC meeting would take place over three-days with a restricted number of participants that would include the President, selected Cabinet Ministers, Business Representatives, Cooperating Partners and International Advisors.

ZIBAC was created in 2003 to provide advise to the President of the Republic of Zambia and his Cabinet through the support from the UK Department for International Development (DFID), other Donors and the Commonwealth Business Council.