Introducing the
Mining Sector Diversification Programme

Zambia is implementing a structural adjustment program with the objective of promoting economic and social development.

The Government’s economic policy aims at creating an enabling environment for private sector led growth. This includes support to export oriented industries in general and the mining sector in particular.

The European Union was pleased to launch the long-expected Mining Sector Diversification Program, MSDP, in January 2002. The European Development Fund, EDF, is supporting this five-year project to promote the sustainable development of the Non-Traditional Mining Sector in Zambia.

It is aimed at contributing to the important objective of poverty alleviation, the most important criteria in all EU development assistance, by diversifying the mining sector away from the traditional emphasis on copper and cobalt.

This means that the project is aimed at all development efforts within the mining sector of Zambia, not dealing with copper and cobalt, and including gemstones, industrial minerals, building materials and other minerals and metals.

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