The Ministry of Science, Technology and Vocational Training which has the mandate to manage the country's policies on Science and Technology one one hand and the practice of vocational and technical education on the other, has formulated new laws through the Science and Technology Act No. 26 of 1997 and the Technical and Vocational and Tentreprenuership Training Act No. 13 of 1998.
These Acts provide the legal framework for the activities arising out of the Ministry's Mission Statement.
The entire training system has therefore been overhauled to make it more relevant to the new economic realities. The reforms encompass the entreprenuership training, the creation of conditions for the development of an entreprenuership culture and its related skills through industry-wide representative body, TEVETA, revised curricula, Management Boards in training institutions and the TEVET Development Plan.

The vision of the MMD government for the next five years is to reverse the trend whereby the percentage of informal sector employment has been increasing and dominating the employment sector. The reversal includes the encouragement of further but gradual privatization of the economy and the development of effective operational systems for linking TEVET institutions with providers of business development services.

The Government hopes to create by the year 2020, new Research and Development support centres which will include the Technology Business Centre; the Science and Technology Information Centres; Zambia Forestry Research Institute and the Medical Research Institute. Others are the Mining and Minerals Research Institute; the Animal Health and Production Research Institute and the National Institute for Fishers Research.