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Adolescent and Youth Engagement
In Zambia, adolescents and youth face significant challenges that hinder their development and potential.
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Child Protection
Protecting rights is crucial to the survival, health and well-being of Zambia’s children
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Social Policy
Zambia's economy remains constrained with high debt, inflation, and recurring shocks due to climate change and pandemics.
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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
UNICEF works for better water and sanitation access in Zambia
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2025 Mid-Year Social Sector Budget Analysis Report
The 2025 National Budget, themed “Building Resilience for Inclusive Growth and Improved Livelihoods”, reflects Zambia’s strategic response to the socio-economic shocks caused by the 2023/24 drought. With a total allocation of K217.1 billion, representing a 22.0% nominal increase over 2024, the budget is anchored o...
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Listening to the Voices of Affected Populations
May 2025 —, As Zambia continues to face compounding humanitarian challenges, from prolonged drought to recurrent cholera outbreaks, and most recently, Mpox—one powerful lesson stands out: putting communities at the centre of emergency response is the most effective approach to achieve long-term resilience. In 2024...
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Powering Health - Empowering Communities
CHONGWE, Lusaka province, Zambia, August 2025 , --- As the sun went down over Mwalumina village and dark clouds loomed in the sky, a different kind of light broke through, a symbol of hope! For the first time, Mwalumina Rural Health Center and surrounding staff homes glowed with solar-powered electricity. What was...
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Together with Girls: A Visit to Sesheke on Child Protection and Ending Child Marriage
Sesheke District, Western Province, Zambia – June 2025, . In a warmly lit classroom filled with laughter and colour, adolescent girls gathered with bold confidence. Dressed in bright orange, blue t-shirts that read “ENDING CHILD MARRIAGE,” they stood as living testaments to progress — and hope to pursue their drea...
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UNICEF Zambia Gender Action Plan 2025–2027
Gender equality is at the core of UNICEF's accountability to children. The Strategic Plan (SP) 2022-20251 reaffirms that gender equality is an organizational priority, a fundamental value and a cross-cutting principle for all 5 Goal Areas, as well as across UNICEF's programmes and workplaces. In line with the UNIC...
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United Nations Zambia Mourns Former President Edgar Chagwa Lungu
Lusaka, Zambia – 5 June 2025, – The United Nations (UN) system in Zambia has learned with deep regret and sadness the death of Zambia’s Sixth Republican President, Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu. “President Lungu served his country with dedication. He will be remembered for Zambia’s strong and consistent participation in ...
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Climate Landscape Analysis for Children in Zambia
The Government of Zambia (GRZ) ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1993, signed the Paris Agreement, and passed the National Policy on Climate Change in 2016. The National Adaptation Plan (NAP) was prepared in 2023, and Zambia submitted its new Nationally Determined Contr...
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Announcing the 2025 TEDxLusakaWomen Event in partnership with the Scaling Up Nutrition Phase 2 (SUN II) Programme
Lusaka, Zambia, 29 April 2025, -TEDxLusaka will hold its first ever TEDxLusakaWomen event on 24 May 2025, with the theme “Further, Together”, celebrating the African proverb: “If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together’. TEDxLusaka aims to share ideas that can solve challenges within the ...
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Traditional Leaders Commit to Uphold and Protect the Rights of Children in Luapula
25 April 2025, Mansa, Luapula Province – , Traditional leaders from eleven chiefdoms in Nchelenge, Mwansabombwe, Kawambwa, Chifunabuli and Chiengi districts, hosted by the Permanent Secretary of Luapula Province, Prudence Chinama, came together today in Mansa and committed to uphold and protect the rights of child...
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Investing in the Social Workforce, Key to Accelerate Human Development in Zambia
Zambia, 18 March 2025 – , In celebration of World Social Work Day, celebrated globally today, 18 March, Hon. Doreen S. Mwamba, Minister of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS), launched the "Investment Case for a Stronger Service Workforce" and the "Cost of Inaction" report. Developed with support fro...
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Zambia social service workforce investment case reports and policy brief
Children in Zambia continue to experience high levels of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation, including harmful practices such as child marriage and female genital mutilation. Preventing and responding to these issues requires a strong social services workforce to form the backbone of the child protection sy...
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Strengthening Community Health and Nutrition in Zambia
Context Zambia has demonstrated a strong commitment to improving Community Health and Nutrition(CHN) outcomes by integrating a coherent community health system into its primary healthcare(PHC) framework.