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  "title": "Zambia: Building Resilience to Climate Shocks",
  "publication": "Selected Issues Papers, September 24, 2025",
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  "summary": "Zambia faces growing challenges from climate-related natural disasters, particularly floods and droughts, which have become more frequent and severe in recent years.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Zambia faces growing challenges from climate-related natural disasters, particularly floods and droughts, which have become more frequent and severe in recent years.\n- These events disproportionately affect the country’s large agricultural sector—especially vulnerable subsistence farmers.\n- Reliance on hydroelectric power makes Zambia susceptible to drought-related disruptions in electricity supply, with cascading effects across the economy.\n- Zambia has identified its adaptation priorities and developed a comprehensive legal and policy framework that aligns climate resilience with its long-term development agenda through national and sectoral strategies.\n- Implementation remains constrained by limited coordination across government levels and the absence of robust systems to track climate-related expenditures within the national budget.\n- Effective implementation will depend on Zambia’s ability to mobilize resources—both through domestic revenue and by attracting external financing."
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      "heading": "Key Findings",
      "content": "- Climate-related natural disasters (floods and droughts) are increasing in frequency and severity.\n- The agricultural sector, particularly subsistence farmers, is disproportionately affected.\n- Hydroelectric dependence increases vulnerability to droughts and causes economy-wide cascading effects when electricity supply is disrupted.\n- A comprehensive legal and policy framework exists that aligns climate resilience with long-term development via national and sectoral strategies.\n- Major implementation gaps include limited coordination across government levels and no robust system to track climate-related expenditures in the national budget."
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      "heading": "Policy and Implementation Challenges",
      "content": "- Coordination:\n  - Limited coordination across government levels impedes effective implementation of adaptation strategies.\n- Budgeting and Tracking:\n  - Absence of robust systems to track climate-related expenditures within the national budget weakens fiscal transparency and prioritization for adaptation.\n- Institutional Capacity:\n  - Translating identified adaptation priorities and legal frameworks into operational programs requires stronger institutional capacity."
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      "heading": "Resource Mobilization",
      "content": "- Effective implementation depends on mobilizing resources through:\n  - Domestic revenue mobilization.\n  - Attracting external financing.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Zambia: Building Resilience to Climate Shocks; IMF Selected Issues Paper No. 2025/127; June 30, 2025\n  - Zambia: Building Resilience to Climate Shocks; IMF Selected Issues Paper No. 2025/127; June 30, 2025 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Zambia: Building Resilience to Climate Shocks; IMF Selected Issues Paper No. 2025/127; June 30, 2025 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/selected-issues-papers/issues/2025/09/23/zambia-building-resilience-to-climate-shocks-570665"
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    "Authors: Linda Spahia",
    "Published: September 24, 2025",
    "Series: Selected Issues Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229025768.018",
    "Zambia faces growing challenges from climate-related natural disasters, particularly floods and droughts, which have become more frequent and severe in recent years.",
    "These events disproportionately affect the country’s large agricultural sector—especially vulnerable subsistence farmers.",
    "Reliance on hydroelectric power makes Zambia susceptible to drought-related disruptions in electricity supply, with cascading effects across the economy.",
    "Zambia has identified its adaptation priorities and developed a comprehensive legal and policy framework that aligns climate resilience with its long-term development agenda through national and sectoral strategies.",
    "Implementation remains constrained by limited coordination across government levels and the absence of robust systems to track climate-related expenditures within the national budget.",
    "Effective implementation will depend on Zambia’s ability to mobilize resources—both through domestic revenue and by attracting external financing.",
    "Climate-related natural disasters (floods and droughts) are increasing in frequency and severity.",
    "The agricultural sector, particularly subsistence farmers, is disproportionately affected.",
    "Hydroelectric dependence increases vulnerability to droughts and causes economy-wide cascading effects when electricity supply is disrupted.",
    "A comprehensive legal and policy framework exists that aligns climate resilience with long-term development via national and sectoral strategies.",
    "Major implementation gaps include limited coordination across government levels and no robust system to track climate-related expenditures in the national budget.",
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    "Budgeting and Tracking:",
    "Institutional Capacity:",
    "Effective implementation depends on mobilizing resources through:",
    "**Zambia: Building Resilience to Climate Shocks; IMF Selected Issues Paper No. 2025/127; June 30, 2025**"
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