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Jan
ZAMBIA CSO SUSTAINABILITY INDEX
The index describes advances and setbacks in the Zambia’s civil society sector in 2017 through assessments of seven key dimensions: the legal environment, organizational.
Happy to have been part of this!Today is youth day in Zambia and with our partners on the Civil Society Strengthening project we are celebrating the voices of children and other young people. The theme this year is "Zambian Youth Generation Unlimited". Part of the discussion is focused on investment in children through adequate budgetary allocations to key child sensitive social sectors such as education, health and social protection.
Some Voices from the event:
”We know what we want as children and it's time to allow us create the future we want. The future I want is one where as a girl I can be anything I want without being questioned. I am proud to be a scientist and I want other girls to be inspired to be scientists too.” 13year old Mwangala Maunga a scientist at the youth forum.
”This years youth day in Zambia is special because it comes at a time when we are celebrating a 100 years of working for the survival, learning and protection of children as an organization. We are happy to be part of forums like this one today with children, local partners and UN agencies such as UNICEF. This forum is serving as a platform for young people to express themselves and tell us about the Zambia they want." Zambia Country Director
” Young people are living in a different generation and only they know what they need for their own development.” UNICEF deputy Country Representative
ZAMBIAN YOUTH: GENERATION UNLIMITED😁💪🏽
We are with our Children and several other young people at the CTPD ‘Youth Focused Budget Brief’ Launch at Mulungushi International Conference Centre. This is part of the 2019 National Youth Day Commemoration. Governments commitment to children’s wellbeing can be evidently measured by how much money is allocated to child focused sectors and programmes.
TRADITIONAL LEADERS OVERWHELMINGLY WELCOME THE 7NDP ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT IN MANSA AND SENANGA
This week we were hosted by Chief Chisunka of Mansa District and Chief Kakene of Senanga District. CSPR is launching its “State Accountability in the 7th National Development Plan’ project in the 2 Chiefdoms. The project will promote state accountability through awareness and capacity building on the 7NDP for the community members and community-based organisations in the 2 Districts. “Our people need to know what has been promised before they can Demand!”, has been the common call from the 2 chiefs.
This evening we are awarding some of the most deserving Zambian journalists for their impressive coverage and documentation of stories and articles on Sustainable Diets in the year 2018. Hivos
This morning we held a breakfast meeting with CSOs, Members of Parliament and line Ministries looking at how the 2017 budget fared,it has been observed that people in rural areas are the ones mostly affected by the pains of absolute poverty mainly due to government failure to adequately provide the required basic services to communities.
It was also noted that timely disbursement of funds for public service delivery has been a challenge which has led to poor service delivery.
As CSPR, we focus on six sectors namely Health, Education, Agriculture, Infrastructure, Social Protection and Water and Sanitation across five provinces.