Category: Sustainable Development

 …as USAID, UNAIDS assure of support   LUSAKA, Sunday, 18 November 2018 –   UNITED Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has pledged to provide US$500,000 in terms of Technical Assistance, equipment and financial resources while UNICEF has pledged to provide US$100,000. The pledges were made when the Minister of National Development Planning Hon. Alexander Chiteme, on behalf of the Vice-President Her Honour Mrs Inonge Mutukwa Wina, and Permanent Secretary Chola Chabala, Central Statistical Office Acting Director Goodson Sinyenga and other officials met Cooperating Partners and the private sector to mobilise resources for the 2020 Census for Population and Housing. United Nations...

LUSAKA, Monday 19 November 2018 –   UNICEF’s Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, Ms. Leila Pakkala, arrives in Lusaka this morning (19 Nov) on a two-day trip to the Republic of Zambia to commemorate World Children’s Day (20 November) and the anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. During her stay, Ms. Pakkala will give an address at the opening of Zambia’s first ever Sanitation Summit (19-21 November), meet with the Vice President of the Republic of Zambia Ms. Inonge Wina (to discuss nutrition and early childhood development), and take part in a high-level visit...

……as Smart Zambia Initiative and Huawei donate 10 Computers to Lusaka’s Makeni St. Francis Pre-School   By Derrick Sinjela in Makeni, South of Lusaka FORMER First Republican President Dr. Kenneth David Buchizya Kaunda and former Chairman People’s Republic of China, President, the late Mao Zedong for laying a firm Sino-Zambia foundation which President Xi Jinping and President Edgar Chagwa Lungu continue to consolidate politically described as a Siamese twin. An elated Huawei Country Director Martin Zhong is delighted that Zambia and China continue to collaborate as equal partners in delivering empowerment to citizens in the host country manifested by an...

By Millennium Challenge Corporation – MCC   Lusaka – Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary Jeanne Hauch visited Lusaka this week to recognize the accomplishments of the MCC Zambia Compact.   While in Lusaka, Ms. Hauch met with Zambian President Edgar Lungu, U.S. Ambassador Daniel Lewis Foote, Zambian Minister of Finance Margaret Mwanakatwe, and other Zambian government senior officials, as well as the dedicated Millennium Challenge Account-Zambia staff. The MCC vice president also visited project sites and met with beneficiaries of the MCC-Zambia Compact.   “It has been an honor to be here this week to...