All resources: Zambia

2030 Development Agenda

Zambia: How to tackle four development goals in a single project

A new ILO-FAO agricultural employment project underway in Zambia aims to create 3000 additional decent jobs for rural youth, increase their incomes and tackle nutritional deficiencies. In so doing, it works towards four of the new sustainable...

ILO (ITC-ILO)

Zambia to host the ILO Global Academy on Sustainable Enterprise Development

Zambia to become the first African country to welcome ILO-supported innovation and best practices in the field of sustainable enterprise development from 31 August to 4 September 2015.

Promoting Access to Micro-insurance for Financial Inclusion and Decent Work Country Evaluation Report: Zambia (Final Joint External...

Project INT/10/14/CDF - Evaluation consultants: Denis Garand, (Team Leader), Oscar Kitasoboka, Mark Akanko Achaw, Rob Gruijters

A programme to reduce WFCL in tobacco-growing communities in Zambia (ARISE I) (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project ZAM/12/55/JTI - Evaluation consultant: Jose Maria Alvarez (team-leader) and Stephen Chipala

Youth Employment Programme

President Lungu Launches National Youth Policy and Action Plan on Youth Empowerment and Employment for Zambia

Zambia’s Republican President, Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu has launched the 2015 revised National Youth Policy and the first ever National Action Plan on Youth Empowerment and Employment.

Zambia Green Jobs Programme

Innovative mobile social protection registration campaign targeting the construction sector

A joint mobile registration campaign to extend social security coverage to workers in the construction sector is currently being carried out by the National Pension Scheme Authority (NAPSA) and the Worker’s Compensation Fund Control Board (WCFCB)...

ARISE I

I swim across the river to get to children at risk of child labour

Under the ILO ARISE Project in Zambia, a total of 3,000 children are targeted to be reached for child labour prevention through behaviour change and peer-to-peer education. To facilitate this process, 200 peer-to-peer educators have been trained by...

An Action Plan for Youth Empowerment and Employment

The Action Plan provides strategies to comprehensively address challenges of youth employment and empowerment through a multi-sectoral approach to boost opportunities for employment and empowerment for young women and men.

National Plan of Action for the 2015 Youth Policy

The National Plan of Action provides an implementation framework for the revised 2015 National Youth Policy for Zambia. The plan offers guidance on how all stakeholders can mainstream youth development issues within their sectors in line with the...

National Youth Policy 2015

The revised 2015 National Youth Policy for Zambia provides a more responsive approach to youth programming in order effectively address the needs of the youth in tandem with emerging issues in youth development. The policy is driven by the overal...

Zambia Green Jobs Programme

ILO signs Memorandum of Understanding with the Copperbelt University

The ILO CO-Lusaka, on behalf of the Zambia Green Jobs Programme, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Copperbelt University School of Built Environment to join hands in the mission of greening the building construction sector.

Irish Aid Phase II: Testing methodologies to support informal economy workers and small producers to combat hazardous child labour in their...

Project GLO/13/57/IRL - Evaluation consultant: João de Azevedo (team-leader); National Evaluators: Stella Dzator (Ghana); Affo Daoudou Hamissou (Benin)

Enabling Environment for Sustainable Entreprises in Zambia

Independent evaluation of the ILO's strategies on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, Volume I Full Report - Rev. Ed. (2015)

Covering the period from 2008 to 2014, this evaluation reviews ILO’s strategy to advance Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (FPRW), namely: the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining is widely known and exercised (Outcome...

Independent evaluation of the ILO's strategies on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, Volume II Annexes - Rev. Ed. (2015)

This report contains a collection of case studies as well as other thematic reports which were gathered as part of the desk review for the full report, Volume 1. SEE EDITOR's NOTE WITH APOLOGY.

Zambia Green Jobs Programme

Zambian Labour Law: The key to improving business performance

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and its partners have launched an important campaign to ensure business growth and sustainable economic development by promoting the creation of decent work in the booming Zambian construction sector.

Sustainable development

Female entrepreneur builds economical, green homes in Zambia

ILO-led Green Jobs Programme in Zambia is expected to create 5,000 new green jobs by 2017 thanks to a partnership between the government and the construction sector.

CEEP Zambia

The project empowers beneficiaries both economically and personally to address the challenges that arise within the local context.

ITC/ILO

Academy on Sustainable Enterprise Developent

The International Training Centre of the ILO are pleased to announce that enrolment is now open for the 8th edition of the Academy on Sustainable Enterprise Development and for the first time it will take place in Lusaka, Zambia at the New...

Zambia Green Jobs Programme

Government officials trained in Green Building Practices and Technologies

The National Council for Construction (NCC) in partnership with the Zambia Green Jobs Programme, has successfully conducted a training workshop on green building practices and technologies targeting planners, architects and engineers to enhance...