Dr. Mulenga C. M. Bwalya

Dr. Mulenga Chitemfuma Marcel Bwalya
Department of Government and Management Studies
Senior Lecturer
Researcher
Biography

Academic Qualifications

  • 1980 –  School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, U.K. Ph.D. Development Studies
  • 1974 –    Maxwell School of Public Administration, Syracuse University, U.S.A. Master of Public Administration, M.P.A (Public Administration and Organisation Development)
  • 1973 – School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zambia, B.A.(Merit) Public Administration with degree qualification in Librarianship.

Profile

Dr. Mulenga Chitemfuma Marcel Bwalya is a Senior Lecturer in the department of Government and management Studies. He has over 40 years work experience in management, training and research in the Public Service, Local Government Administration and Management Development, 30 of which have been at the top public service management and training level. He has extensive experience in Public Sector Management, Policy Analysis and Management as well as Strategic Planning and Management. He has undertaken training assignments in Organisation and Management Development, Human Resource Development and Management and Institutional Management. Other skills are in Project Management – from 1991 to 2002, involved in the design, implementation and monitoring of the Zambian Public Service Reform Programme (PSRP), Public Service Capacity Building Programme (PSCAP) and various projects under UNDP/GRZ auspices.

CONSULTANCY AND CONTRIBUTION TO PUBLIC SERVICE:

  • February, 2021: On request from the Clerk of the National Assembly, submitted a written memo and oral presentation to the Parliamentary Committee on Cabinet Affairs, comments on the ramifications of the NIPA (Amendment) Bill No. 9 of 2021.
  • 2017-2021: With Masiye, J. N., conducting research towards a chapter to be titled “The New Public Management (NPM) Crusade at Cross-roads: Reflections on the Zambian-cum-African Experiences” in the planned departmental textbook to be titled Political and Administrative Change in Zambia: Drivers, Processes, Achievements and Challenges to be edited by Mulenga C.M. Bwalya, Clever Madimutsa and Phineas Bbaala.
  • 2015 TO DECEMBER, 2017: Under the auspices of and in collaboration with the National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA), conducting research on the history of the Institution. Preliminary draft with NIPA to identify the gaps that require filling. The expected deliverable will be a book titled “A Select History of the National Institute of Public Administration, 1963 to 2015
  • 2016, October -  Jan. 2019: With 14 other Commissioners appointed by the President of the Republic of Zambia, conducted an investigation into the leading causes of the electoral violence ad voting patterns of all general elections between 2006 and 2016. Report presented to the President on 30th January, 2019.
  • 2003, Oct. – August. 2005: Part of a team of consultants commissioned by the Government of the Republic of Zambia to carry out a National Road Sector Institutional Study. This study was aimed at developing a vision for the transport sector in Zambia, to make operational the Road Sector Agencies created for purposes of improving and rationalising road services in Zambia. It was part of the Road Management Initiative (RMI) supported by the International Development Agency IDA) programme. The work included development of the Human Resource Operations Manual, Job Descriptions and Specifications, Remunerations and Salaries Structures, etc. for Agencies. The Final Report was presented to the Government for consideration at the end of August 2006. The end result were the current Road Sector Management agencies known as Road Fund Agency (RFD), Road Development Agency (RDA) and Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA),
  • 2004, Jan.  – May 2005: Team Leader of the consultancy commissioned by the Government of the Republic of Zambia to assess the impact of the Public Service Reform Programme (PSRP) and the Public Service Capacity Building Programme (PSCAP), to propose effective strategies for furthering the reform process and recommend ways of effectively dissemination of the benefits of the programme. The Final Report was presented to the Government in January 2005. Final Report accepted by Government in August 2005.
  • 2003 Sept. – Dec. 2004: He was part of the team of consultants commissioned by the Government   of the Republic of Zambia to undertake the review of the Public Policy process in Zambia. The main objectives of the Consultancy were to:
  • 2001 – 2003: In conjunction with the Agder Research Foundation of Norway, supervised a consultancy programme to assist select Local Authorities to identify their weaknesses and potentialities that were used to improve their performance in resource mobilization. The results were very encouraging, with the pilot District Councils of Chipata, Chibombo, Mazabuka and Kasama registering reasonable improvements in their income from identified projects.
  • 1999    Consultancy assignment to Redefine the Role of the Management Development Division, Cabinet Office, Zambia, 4th to 20th March, 1999. Report entitled “Revitalising Public Service Reform Programme (PSRP) Implementation: The Focused Role of the Management Development Division (MDD), Cabinet Office”.
  • 1992 –1997     Providing consultancy and programme support services and inputs to Zambia’s Public Service Reform Programme (PSRP) as Project Manager, GRZ-UNDP Public Service Management Project.
  • 1991    Consultancy research on “Institutional and Managerial Reforms in Zambia’s Public Service” for the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), September to October, 1992.
  • 1988    Research on “Policy Making Within Governmental Administration.  The Case of Zambia” under the sponsorship of the Commonwealth Secretariat.
  • 1986-1987: Research entitled “Regional Co-operation in Southern Africa: A Critical Study of SADCC”. Output:  Paper on regional co-operation and imperialist penetration in SADCC delivered to the International Seminar on Southern African Responses to Imperialism, Harare, and 22-24 April.
  • 2001 – 2003: In conjunction with the Agder Research Foundation of Norway, supervised a consultancy programme to assist select Local Authorities to identify their weaknesses and potentialities that were used to improve their performance in resource mobilization. The results were very encouraging, with the pilot District Councils of Chipata, Chibombo, Mazabuka and Kasama registering reasonable improvements in their income from identified projects.
  • 1999: Consultancy assignment to Redefine the Role of the Management Development Division, Cabinet Office, Zambia, 4th to 20th March, 1999. Report entitled “Revitalising Public Service  Reform Programme (PSRP) Implementation: The Focussed Role of the Management Development Division (MDD), Cabinet Office”.
  • 1992 –1997: Providing consultancy and programme support services and inputs to Zambia’s Public Service Reform Programme (PSRP) as Project Manager, GRZ-UNDP Public Service Management Project.
  • 1991    Consultancy research on “Institutional and Managerial Reforms in Zambia’s Public Service”  for the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), September to October, 1992.
  • 1988: Research on “Policy Making Within Governmental Administration.  The Case of Zambia” under the sponsorship of the Commonwealth Secretariat.  Final Report presented.
  • 1986-1987: Research entitled “Regional Co-operation in Southern Africa: A Critical Study of SADC” Output:  Paper on regional co-operation and imperialist penetration in SADCC delivered to the International Seminar on Southern African Responses to Imperialism, Harare, and 22-24 April.
  • 1984-1985: Research on “Administrative and Socio-cultural Antecedents to Development” carried out in conjunction with CAFRAD/UNDP.  This project was the Zambian Case Study. Report submitted to CAFRAD.
  • 1981-1982: Consultancy research for ILO (EMP/ECON and EMP/RU) on Grass Roots Self-Reliance (GRSR).  Report entitled “Broad-based participation in Planning for Development in Zambia: The IRDP in the Eastern Province” submitted to ILO on 15th September, 1983.
  • 1981: Baseline Research Project under the auspices of the University of Zambia, National Commission for Development Planning and Ministry of Agriculture and Team Leader on Public Sector Institutions and Programmes.  Report submitted in 1982.
  • 1986-1987: He conducted research on “Regional Co-operation in Southern Africa: A Critical Study of SADCC”. Output:  Paper on regional co-operation and imperialist penetration in SADCC delivered to the International Seminar on Southern African Responses to Imperialism, Harare, and 22-24 April, 1987.
  • 1984-1985: He undertook research on “Administrative and Socio-cultural Antecedents to Development” carried out in conjunction with CAFRAD/UNDP.  This project was the Zambian Case Study.  Report submitted to CAFRAD.
  • 1981-1982: He carried out consultancy research for ILO (EMP/ECON and EMP/RU) on Grass Roots Self- Reliance (GRSR).  Report entitled “Broad-based participation in Planning for Development in Zambia: The IRDP in the Eastern Province” submitted to ILO on 15th September, 1983.
  • 1977-1980: Research on Rural Development and Agriculture Transformation in northern Zambia. A study of the historical and contemporary sources of backwardness in Mpika District in  Northern Zambia. Report:  Ph.D. Thesis and various papers.
  • 1981: Baseline Research Project under the auspices of the University of Zambia, National Commission for Development Planning and Ministry of Agriculture and Team Leader on Public Sector Institutions and Programmes.  Report submitted in 1982.
  • 1977-1980: Research on Rural Development and Agriculture Transformation in northern Zambia being a study of the historical and contemporary sources of backwardness in Mpika District in
Research Interests
  • Organisation and Management Development
  • Human Resource Development and Management 
  • Institutional Management
  • Project Management
  • Design, implementation and monitoring
Publications
  • 2006-   “Public Service Reform: The Zambian Experience” in Kiragu, K. and Mutahaba, G. eds.  Public Service Reform in Eastern and   Southern Africa: Issues and Challenges, Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, pp. 241-266.
  • 1994-   “Zambia: Form Versus Substance in the One-Party State”, in Picard, L.A. and Garrity, M. eds. Policy Reform for Sustainable Development in Africa: The Institutional Imperative, Lynne Reinner Publishers, Boulder, Colorado, pp. 51-66  “Policy Analysis in Southern Africa, Especially Zambia” in Nigel, S. ed., African Development and Public Policy, Mac Millan, Ch. 2.
  • 1991-   “Policy Teaching at the National Institute of Public Administration”, AMTIESA Bulletin, vol. 3 No. 1.
  • 1987- “The Ecology of Public Administration and Management in Africa”, AAPAM, Vikas, 1986, pp. I-xxxiv, 303, in Business Focus, Vol. 2 No. 1, Jan/Feb., 1987, P.9.
  • 1986-   “Zambia’s Experience with Management Development: Some Lessons for Independent Namibia”, African Administrative Studies, No. 26, article 5.
  • 1984-   “The Impact of the Local Administration (1980) Act on Decentralization  of Development in Zambia”, CAFRAD/UNDP Research Project on           Administrative Reforms in Africa, Tangier, Morocco (Monograph).
  • 1984.  “Participation or Powerlessness:  The place of Peasants in Zambia’s Rural Development”, Klaas Woldring, Ed., Beyond Political Independence: Zambia’s Predicament in the 1980s, Mouton Publishers, Berlin pp.73-87.
  • 1981: Rural Development and Poverty Reproduction in Northern Zambia”, The Evolving Structure of Zambian Society, Centre for African Studies, Edinburgh, pp. 95 - 133.
  • 1981    “Local Leadership and Inequality in Rural Zambia.  Some Notes on Mpika in the Northern Province” Class Formation and Class Struggle,  Selected Papers of the Fourth SAUSSC, Roma, Lesotho, pp. 59 - 72.
  • 1981     “Broad-based Local Participation in Development:  The IRDP in Zambia”. Proceedings: Lesotho Workshop on Integrated Rural Development and Decentralisation 20th - 30th April, 1981, PAID-ESA, Lusaka, Zambia
  • 1981    “Local Leadership and Inequality in Rural Zambia.  Some Notes on Mpika in the Northern Province” Class Formation and Class Struggle, Selected Papers of the Fourth SAUSSC, Roma, Lesotho, pp. 59 - 72.
  • 1981    “Broad-based Local Participation in Development:  The IRDP in Zambia”. Proceedings: Lesotho Workshop on Integrated Rural Development and Decentralisation 20th - 30th April, 1981, PAID- ESA, Lusaka, Zambia.
Contact Details
C/O University of Zambia, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Government and Management Studies, P.O. Box 32379 Lusaka, Zambia. Email: mulenga.bwalya@unza.zm