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Equal Employment Opportunities for Women and Men

Government Programmes in Zambia - Entrepreneurship

Various measures have been taken by the Government to accelerate equality of men and women:

  1. Working women’s access to loans has been facilitated, since the consent of the husbands is no longer required. NGOs have set up credit schemes where loans to women clients are 100 per cent guaranteed.
  2. Women have been encouraged to carry out small scale industries so that they will be able to hold money and become economically independent with the assistance of government establishment institutions to provide funding.

Updated by IC. Approved by GT. Last update: 20 June 2002.