Mark Besa Ngoma

Peace✌🏾, Love🖖🏾 & Harmony🤲🏾☮️💟☯️ #TeachSDGs #GlobalGoals #SDGs. Advocate for Good Governance & Active Citizenship.

[Mark Besa Ngoma @markngm]

I just joined the movement to bring @TheGlobalGoals to education! Learn about #TeachSDGs at https://t.co/hshLqxdftg or @TeachSDGs on Twitter!

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Arsenal: 2025/26 Premier League champions.

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Hey guys😊

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I spent two days chasing waterfalls in Northern Zambia, and I have to say—it’s incredibly rich in waterfalls🇿🇲

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@FMwenge @EUinZambia. Indulge us with time to unpack this. @ClaudioBacigal1 @JozefSikela @ZambiaPDU

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@FMwenge Please do. I’m open to more discussions around this, including participation in a space if you opt to use your influence to raise awareness and spark constructive debate and idea sharing.

[Mark Besa Ngoma @markngm]

@FMwenge Commitments from EU supporting the Lobito corridor, are promoting value addition through funding windows created to finance skill acquisition & commercialisation of smallholder farmers along the corridor. Find out more here: https://t.co/9CmNi4ePLa & let me know what you think.

[Mark Besa Ngoma @markngm]

@FMwenge 2/2 are what you and I including the masses need to focus on. We indeed as a country have witnessed a lot of missed opportunities (original TAZARA) being one of them, but as of today, we are in better positions to offer insight that could shift this needle in the right direction

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@FMwenge I beg to differ with this view, Felix. At is point, conversations on current policy environment (e.g., local content, mechanisation, decentralisation, ASM & natural resources & minerals Act) in terms of operationalisation, indigenous resource mobilisation & skills acquisition 1/2

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A magical evening at Mosi-oa-Tunya Falls, witnessing a lunar rainbow for the very first time.#visitzambia

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Exclusive: Zambia, Africa’s second-biggest copper producer, will use larger-than-expected mining revenues to start a stabilization fund this year, a senior treasury official said https://t.co/7avZl7OFb2

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Luangwa Valley background to Kundalila Falls

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Kundalila Falls

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Kundalila Falls

[Mark Besa Ngoma @markngm]

@InfinitelyDean 2/2 capital project with clauses for industrial development & market-driven skills acquisition is paramount to turn the tide. One might argue that in today’s Zambia the missing link is coordination. Enhancing resources allocation & utilisation is essential.

[Mark Besa Ngoma @markngm]

@InfinitelyDean Indeed, enclave economic development has plagued Africa & Zambia has been a victim. There is opportunity to learn from these missed opportunities by deliberating investing in skills development & value chain capture. I’m of the view that Ring-Fencing these 1/2

[Mark Besa Ngoma @markngm]

@FMwenge So the Skills Development Levy & TEVET Acts respectively need to be revised to take into account financing & operations of TEVET institutions. Conversations on RING-FENCING of SDL & capital/labour intensive projects e.g Lobito & TAZARA to put aside funding for skills development

[Mark Besa Ngoma @markngm]

@FMwenge Another issue is how TEVET institutions (particularly public) are incentivised. They earn money on enrolment figures than on completion or competency levels. This means, I will be interested to just enrol students into my institution without regards to how I offer the service.

[Mark Besa Ngoma @markngm]

@FMwenge One is example is the Skill Levy. Employers pay this levy but it is not directly used to enhance learning (training infrastructure, curriculum nor outcomes) as it is pooled into one fund. Then when the national budget is drafted, only 2.2% of the education budget goes to TEVET.