Zambia

Zambia Market Access, Trade, and Enabling Policies Program (MATEP) SOW

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USAID
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PDF
Date: 
April 1, 2005
The Market Access, Trade and Enabling Policies: (MATEP) program aimed to enhance competitiveness of small- and medium-scale agriculture and natural products producers and processors by providing better access to markets, production technologies, finance and business development services (BDS), and through initiatives to improve the enabling environment and reduce barriers to trade and investment.

Zambia Promoting Sound Economic Governance and Reducing Barriers to Trade and Investment (SEGTI)

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Source: 
USAID
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PDF
Date: 
August 1, 2007
The Threshold Country Program (TCP) of the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) will contribute to the substantive efforts of the Government of Zambia (GRZ) to spur economic reform and mitigate the corrosive effects of administrative corruption. As a 24-month program under the auspices of USAID/Zambia, the TCP will be a high-profile program targeting specific institutions and organizations with focused technical assistance and material support.

Zambia AgCLIR Report

Large pile of corn, Zambian farm

In November 2010, USAID sponsored an Agribusiness Commercial Legal and Institutional Reform (AgCLIR) diagnostic in Zambia for the purpose of identifying key legal, regulatory, and institutional issues impacting productivity, efficiency, 

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Zambia AgCLIR Report

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Source: 
EAT Project
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PDF
Date: 
March 22, 2011

In November 2010, USAID sponsored an Agribusiness Commercial Legal and Institutional Reform (AgCLIR) diagnostic in Zambia for the purpose of identifying key legal, regulatory, and institutional issues impacting productivity, efficiency, 

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  • AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Dealing with Licenses

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    USAID/BizCLIR
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    PDF
    Date: 
    January 10, 2011

    A number of industry-specific licenses can affect effective agribusiness operations; from seed and fertilizer certification, to farm equipment import and distribution, and health and food safety licenses. AgCLIR Lessons from the Field: Dealing with Licenses highlights the specific issues that must be addressed in regards to the local legal, regulatory, and institutional environments for starting an agribusiness. 

     

     

    AgCLIR Chapter: Dealing with Licenses

    The business of agriculture is typically heavily regulated. Moreover, it is often regulated in a way that requires business owners to actively search out what can seem like, under the best of circumstances, inconsistent and counterintuitive licensing requirements. Operating licenses enable governments to control where, how, and under what circumstances businesses may operate.

    Building a Warehouse Receipts Program that Works for all Stakeholders

    Source: 
    BGI
    Document Type: 
    PDF
    Date: 
    November 19, 2007

    This report presents the lessons learned from the warehouse receipts program in Zambia. This article sets out that warehouse receipts are not an isolated service or function; rather they are a derived service which is based on a functioning and transparent transaction system that will drive the demand for warehouse receipt services.

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