The Zimbabwean government has allocated ZiG$516.4 million to local authorities for social infrastructure development and to buy equipment.
Deputy Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion, David Mnangagwa, made the announcement while answering questions from MPs in Parliament.
He said that the funding was part of the devolution programme, designed to support local development projects. Mnangagwa said:
To date, ZiG516,4 million has been disbursed to various local authorities targeting social infrastructural development and procurement of equipment.
In spite of Treasury being committed to making quarterly devolution disbursements in line with the Zimbabwe Inter-governmental Fiscal Transfer Systems Administrative Manual, there is need for the benefiting tiers of government to have proactive engagements with the line ministry and Treasury to align cashflow disbursements to implementation plans to ensure that some of the targeted projects and programmes are effectively implemented and completed.
Furthermore, the limited disbursements towards devolution have been on account of the need for government to support other competing needs including projects and programmes such as roads development programme.
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