Dr. Mulenga Chitemfuma Marcel Bwalya

Dr. Mulenga Chitemfuma Marcel Bwalya
Dr. Mulenga Chitemfuma Marcel Bwalya
Senior Lecturer
Researcher
Government and Management Studies
Email
mulenga.bwalya@unza.ac.zm
  • Sept. 2003-Present: Senior Lecturer, Political and Administrative Studies, University of Zambia. Teaching, research and consultancy in Public Administration and Management
  • 2015 July -2019 June: Head, Department of Political and Administrative Studies. All-round successful management of departmental academic and staff activities.
  • 2000 Jan-2002 Dec.: First Executive Director, following the transformation of the National Institute of Public Administration (NIPA), Lusaka, Zambia. Was instrumental in the development of organisational and human resource management systems at NIPA to ensure its successful transition from a Government Department to a commercial and self-sustaining institution.
  • 1998 July-1999 Dec.: Principal, NIPA, Lusaka, Zambia. Coordinated effective civil service training in liaison with clients (being the entire Public Service as well as part of the private sector)
  • 1992 Feb.-1997 Dec.: Programme Manager, UNDP-GRZ Public Service Management Programme, Cabinet Office, Lusaka. Actively developed and supported the implementation of the 1993-1997 Public Service Reform Programme (PSRP). Provided logistical support and technical expertise for the practical implementation of the programme.
  • 1987 Nov-1992 Jan.: Principal, ‘new’ NIPA, Lusaka, Zambia. First Principal following the upgrading of that post to Permanent Secretary Coordination of training, research and consultancy activities of the Institute, which called for possession of appropriate skills in the Chief Executive Officer.
  • From 1974 to 1987: Occupied a range of positions from Lecturer, UNZA, Deputy Principal, NIPA and Senior Lecturer, National University of Lesotho, where various teaching and management skills were learned and fruitfully applied.
  • E. Sithole, C. Madimutsa and M.C. Bwalya (2023). “Career Progression Instructions in Influencing Promotions of Commissioned Officers in the Zambia Defence Force”. African Journal of Career Development AOSIS Publishing, ISSN 2617-7471
  • 2) Mukwena, R.M., Bwalya, M.C., Bwalya, O., Notulu, S., and Nyundo, L., Contributors. (2023). The History of the National Institute of Public Administration, UNZA Press, Lusaka
  • Bwalya, M.C. (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.
  • Lungu, G.F. and Bwalya, M.C. (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
  • Bwalya, M.C. (1994). “Policy Analysis in Southern Africa, Especially Zambia” in Nigel, S. ed., African Development and Public Policy, Mac Millan, 21-42.
  • Bwalya, M.C. (1991). “Policy Teaching at the National Institute of Public Administration”, AMTIESA Bulletin, vol. 3 No. 1.
  • Bwalya, M.C. (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.
  • Bwalya, M.C. (1987). “Developing Senior Administrators in the Public Service: The Theory and Reality of Zambia’s Experience”, Institute of Public Administration and Partner Organistions, Mimeo
  • Bwalya, M.C. (1986). “Zambia’s Experience with Management Development: Some Lessons for Independent Namibia”, African Administrative Studies, No. 26, article 5.
  • Bwalya, M.C. (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).
  • Bwalya, M.C. (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.
  • Bwalya, M.C. (1984). “Rural Development and Poverty Reproduction in Northern Zambia”, The Evolving Structure of Zambian Society, Centre for African Studies, Edinburgh, pp. 95-133.
  • Bwalya, M.C. (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.
  • Bwalya, M.C. (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
  • Bwalya, M.C. (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.
  • Bwalya, M.C. (1981). “Broad-based Local Participation in Development: The IRDP in Zambia”. Proceedings: Lesotho Workshop on Integrated Rural Development and Decentralization, 20th - 30th April, 1981, PAID- ESA, Lusaka, Zambia.
  • Bwalya, M.C. (1972). “The Case for Children’s and School Libraries in Zambia”, Zambia Library Association Journal, 4(3), 11-16
  • Public Service Management Training and Development,
  • Public Policy Analysis and Management,
  • Organisation Theory and Practice,
  • Rural Development Studies.
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