The Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry, on 3rd July 2020 launched the report of the Business Survey, undertaken with the support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), to assess the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on various businesses in Zambia.
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Lusaka, 15th June 2020 – The Zambia Police Service Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for COVID-19, launched on 11th June 2020, serves to safeguard human rights particularly of vulnerable citizens and provides guiding principles to security and law enforcement officers in responding to the pandemic.
UNDP Zambia Newsletter , Issue No. 2 , 2019
Lusaka, 12th May 2020 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with The United Nations Volunteers, the Zambian Government and the National Youth Development Council have kick-started a 3-month mass community outreach campaign through the deployment of youth volunteers for door-to-door sensitization as part of a UN-wide support to Zambia to strengthen community preparedness and response to get the number of COVID-19 cases down to zero.
UNDP with funding from the Government of Japan recently installed solar systems at the health centres located in Mayukwayukwa and Meheba resettlement schemes at a total cost of USD57,000.00. These solar systems allow these health centers now to operate as Outpatient Departments (OPD) for 24 hours a day.
Messages of reversing the trend of biodiversity loss so that nature can continue to provide its services to all living things that share this planet resonated across Zambia as the country commemorated this year’s World Environment Day.
Lusaka, 22nd July 2020 –United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched an innovation call to support ground-breaking start-ups and Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (SMEs) that will change the management and recycling of waste in the cities of Lusaka and Ndola.
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Business Survey Report - the impact of COVID-19 on enterprises in Zambia
The report of the Business Survey, was undertaken with the support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), to assess the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on various businesses in Zambia.
The results of the survey show that Covid-19 had a major impact on businesses in Zambia.
Seventy-one percent (71%) of the respondents indicated that their businesses were partially closed while fourteen percent were totally closed. Only fifteen percent reported to have maintained normal operations. The Education, Transport and Catering and Accommodation Sectors have been particularly impacted by Covid-19 while other sectors were almost not affected. Eighty-five percent (85%) businesses working in education reported to be completely closed, while sixty percent (60%) of businesses in the human health and social work sector maintained normal operations.
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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)
