
Minister of Community Development and Social Services DOREEN MWAMBA says all social cash transfer (SCT) committees across the country have been dissolved. This is to start afresh and engage civic leaders in the selection process of the SCT committees.
She said this when she engaged civic leaders in Lusaka on several changes aimed at improving the implementation of the social cash transfer programme.
The Minister asked civic leaders to show a keen interest in enhanced transparency in implementing the Social Cash Transfer Programme in their wards. She also revealed that the Ministry would prepare a calendar to show when SCT payments would happen in various places.
Mrs. MWAMBA said that the Ministry was piloting the enhanced Zambia Integrated Social Protection System (ZISPIS), which will allow beneficiaries to receive their social cash transfer grants from mobile money operators or banks at their own time of convenience.
Hon Mwamba was confident that after the engagement, the civic leaders would play a key role in ensuring the credibility and integrity of the SCT Programme.