The Economic Policy Resource Centre (EPRC) blog is about your impressions and opinions of the EPRC as a resource for accessing policy relevant research outputs and analytical materials. It is also about your perceptions and insights about the content of the materials on the EPRC.

The EPRC is an open-access online information exchange system for economic research and policy outputs from Southern Africa. It is specifically designed to bring together previously disparate resources on economic policy produced both within Africa, as well as internationally. The EPRC is currently focused on materials from Zambia. You can search for and access materials from academic, non-governmental, and governmental institutions using this state-of-the-art database system. Access to the database system is freely available to you.

We believe that the EPRC can serve several important public good purposes from informing academic and applied research to informing policy formulation and legislative decision making in Zambia (and eventually in Southern Africa).

The blog is intended as a platform for anyone to air their views about the EPRC on the one hand and about research and policy analysis in Zambia and Southern African on the other, particularly in relation to the materials on the database system.

The EPRC team will from time to time post its own impressions and opinions about the database system, as well as about the content of materials posted on it. However, we are keener to hear and learn about your own impressions and opinions. The EPRC provide you with a unique platform to let your voice be heard. Please go ahead and try it.

You can start you own blog topic on the EPRC or on any of the topic in one or several of the materials you might read about from the database. Or you can pick up on someone else’s blog topic and post your own comments to it. Please send your blog posts via email to Jessica.achberger@saipar.org for posting, and please sign your comments.

Caesar Cheelo
Adviser
EPRC