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Zambia Development Agency

Lusaka, Lusaka Province, Zambia • 51 - 200 Employees
Government Administration

The Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) is Zambia's premier economic development Agency with a multifaceted mandate of promoting and facilitating trade, investment and enterprise development in the country. The Agency is also responsible for building and enhancing the country's investment profile for increased capital inflows, capital formation, employment creation and growth of the Medium Small and Micro Enterprise (MSME) Sector.ZDA, a quasi-government institution under the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry was established under the ZDA Act No. 11 of 2006. It became operational in 2007, after the amalgamation of five statutory bodies namely; Zambia Investment Centre, Zambia Privatization Agency, Export Board of Zambia , Small Enterprise Development Board and the Zambia Export Processing Zones Authority.Government amalgamated the five statutory bodies in a bid to foster synergies that would accelerate economic development and achieve sustained exponential growth. The other reason was to improve efficiency in the delivery of business development services under a one stop shop concept aimed at reducing the cost of doing business. The one stop shop concept would also make it easy to do business thereby enhancing business competitiveness.