a tripartite report - Unctad
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142 VOLUNTARY PEER REVIEW OF CLP: A TRIPARTITE REPORT ON THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA – ZAMBIA – ZIMBABWE<br />
3. INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK<br />
3.1 Resources<br />
<br />
Of the Commission’s present 29 full-time employees,<br />
6 (or 21 per cent of the total number of employees)<br />
are in managerial positions, 14 (48 per<br />
cent) are in other professional positions, and 9 (31<br />
port<br />
positions. A total of 17 managerial and professional<br />
staff is directly involved in competition<br />
and consumer issues, constituting about 60 per<br />
cent of the total number of employees.<br />
All the Commission’s professional staff has University<br />
degrees in their respective areas of competences<br />
(i.e., economics, law, administration, and<br />
accounts). The mix of economists and lawyers is<br />
however not adequate. The Commission presently<br />
only has 3 lawyers, and up to 15 economists.<br />
There is therefore need for more lawyers.<br />
Staff turnover in the Commission has been very<br />
low since 2008, mainly because of improved conditions<br />
of services, in terms of both basic salaries<br />
mission<br />
compare very favourably, not only nationally<br />
but also regionally. Over the last three years,<br />
the Commission has not lost any support staff, and<br />
lost only two professional staff.<br />
The Commission however has a serious human<br />
<br />
not commensurate with its current operations<br />
The Commission has a total of 37 positions on its<br />
staff establishment (the former ZCC only had 26<br />
positions on its establishment), of which 29 are<br />
ganizational<br />
structure of the Commission is also<br />
shown in Figure 2 below.<br />
Table 2: Filled Positions on the Commission’s Staff Establishment (as at 16 October 2011)<br />
Department Staff Positions<br />
Total No. Filled<br />
Positions<br />
Executive Director, Personal Assistant, Chief Analyst 3<br />
Mergers & Monopolies Department Director, Senior Research Analyst, Research Analysts 5<br />
Consumer & Public Relations Department 5<br />
Legal & Enforcement Department Director, Manager Legal, Legal Assistant 3<br />
Finance & Administration Department<br />
<br />
<br />
Library Assistant, Drivers<br />
11<br />
Research Analysts 2<br />
Total No. of Filled Positions on the Establishment 29<br />
Source: Compiled from information obtained from the CCPC<br />
and stakeholder expectations. For example, the<br />
Commission’s Legal & Enforcement Department<br />
is manned by only 3 people, while the number of<br />
competition and consumer cases requiring legal<br />
advice and enforcement is on the increase. The<br />
Mergers & Monopolies Department and the Consumer<br />
& Public Relations Department are also<br />
<br />
which over-strains the Departments in terms of in-<br />
<br />
advocacy and awareness activities. The Kitwe of-<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Zambia that funding is the major impediment to<br />
<br />
The Universities should be the natural pool of<br />
trained personnel for the Commission in the spe-<br />
ever,<br />
none of the Universities in Zambia are currently<br />
offering courses in subjects connected to<br />
competition policy and law.<br />
The Commission recently appointed on a parttime<br />
contract basis 10 Inspectors in terms of section<br />
7 of the Act. Plans are to appoint a total of<br />
60 such Inspectors based in all the country’s nine