Zambian President H.E Edgar Lungu and his Rwandan counterpart H. E Paul Kagame this morning launched the Sustainable Development Goals Center for Africa (SDGC/A) Sub-Regional Center for Southern Africa in Lusaka, Zambia.
UNDP Zambia Newsletter , Issue No. 2 , 2019
The new Resident Representative (RR) of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Zambia, Mr. Lionel Laurens, who has assumed his role, reiterated UNDP’s commitment to remain a trusted development partner of the Government of the Republic of Zambia to support the achievement of sustainable development goals and prosperity for all by 2030 during the presentation of his credentials to the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Joseph Malanji (MP) on 10th October 2019.
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The United Nations Development Programme in partnership with the Government of Zambia through the Ministry of Justice today signed the “Promotion of Human Rights and Access to Justice Project.”
The project aims to contribute towards the progressive realisation of human rights and improved access to justice for all in Zambia.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has called for strengthened partnerships in ensuring that girls have access to the use of ICTs as tools for achieving their individual goals, but also as opportunities to stimulate many girls to become critical thinkers and creators of the technologies which are important to address the most pressing issues faced today.
Participants at a workshop held by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resource (Department of Climate Change and Natural Resources Management) through the BIOFIN Zambia Project Team have recommended to develop an implementation plan for the National Green Finance Policy, which is being proposed for establishment together with Green Bond Guidelines which will be spearheaded by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the listing rules which will be led by the Lusaka Securities exchange (LuSE)
The protection and promotion of human rights and gender equality for people living with HIV, vulnerable populations and key populations, including young key populations, is critical to successful responses to HIV, TB and sexual and reproductive health.
Zambia has signed and ratified a number of international and regional human rights treaties that commit to protecting the rights of all persons, particularly vulnerable populations; Zambia also includes the protection of human rights as a central tenet of its national Constitution. The Constitution provides all persons with the right to equality and non-discrimination, life, privacy, liberty, association and assembly, health, fair labour practices, social protection and freedom from torture or degreated treatment, amongst other things; these rights are important for people in the context of health, human rights and gender equality.
UNDP Zambia Newsletter
The UNDP Zambia monthly newsletter is aimed at highlighting key development results by the agency covering our 3 focus areas namely , Governanace and Gender, Environment and Energy, Inclusive Growth and SDGs.
Zambia Human Development Report 2016
The 2016 Zambia Human Development Report (ZHDR) entitled, Industrialisation and Human Development: Poverty Reduction through Wealth and Employment Creation speaks in particular to SDG 9 which aims to promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation.
This Report is intended as just such a contribution to the industrialisation debate in Zambia. It presents quantitative and qualitative data that define Zambia's current place on the industrialisation map. The Report notes that for industrialisation to be effective and sustainable, several other factors must support it.
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Our work in Zambia is guided corporately by the UNDP Strategic Plan, the United Nations Sustainable Development Partnership Framework and our Country Programme Document (CPD) 2016 -2021.
Organisationally we are structured around four distinct and yet interlinked programmatic areas, namely, environment and energy, governance and gender, poverty reduction and SDGs; and health systems strengthening for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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About Zambia
17.09
Population (2017)
54.4%
Poverty rate
3,464
GNI per capita
0.588
Human Dev. Index (2018)
