by Paula Määttä

XIII. Zambia

F. The role of the public sector

The Government has appointed the Women's League as the national machinery responsible for coordinating women's activities in the field of equality, development and peace. The Government has established a Women's Affairs Desks in all Government Ministries to attend to women's issues and programmes, and to ensure that they are given due and prompt attention. Consultation and coordination with the Women in Development Department at the National Commission for the Development Planning (NCDP) are to be facilitated and consolidated. (Cedaw 1992, pp. 4-5.)

In the Zambia Fourth National Development Plan, 1989-1993, a new chapter XXV called "Women in Development" has been set aside to address the issue of full integration of women into development as part of the Government's overall effort to ensure the fullest participation possible of all sections and communities in the country. (Cedaw 199, p. 3).