All resources: Zambia

Report

The impact of HIV on care work and the care workforce

This publication provides an overview of the gaps and challenges in six sub-Saharan African countries (Liberia, Namibia, South Africa, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia). By providing a picture of front-line prevention and treatment...

Maternity income protection in Southern and Eastern Africa. From concept to practice

This publication is part of a collaboration of the ILO with the Eastern and Central Africa Social Security Association (ECASSA) to encourage the move from employer liability systems to social insurance based systems and to provide universal and...

Policy Brief

Towards Universal Social Security for the Elderly in Mozambique

In Mozambique, social assistance for the elderly is a right enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic. Mozambique currently has 1.25 million elderly people, which corresponds to 4.5% of the population. Although assistance during old-age is a...

ILO tripartite technical workshop for the SADC region Investing in the health workforce: employment and decent work in the health sector -...

The ILO tripartite technical workshop was organized in collaboration with WHO and SADC and with the support of the ILO-OECD-WHO Working for Health Multi-Partner Trust Fund.

« 100 Years – 100 Lives » | ZAMBIA - “I hope to further expand my company to offer more jobs for young people in my community”

What started as a dream for 28-year-old Abraham Susiku has now become a lucrative agri-business partly thanks to an ILO project.

« 100 Years – 100 Lives » | ZAMBIA - “I was 11 when I started to work in tobacco farms. Now I am skilled and became a tailor”

Simasiku Ngenda is one of the Zambian teenagers who have been supported by an ILO-sponsored project so that they can leave child labour and learn a trade.

Policy Brief

Towards Universal Social Security for the Elderly in Mozambique

In Mozambique, social assistance for the elderly is a right enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic. Mozambique currently has 1.25 million elderly people, which corresponds to 4.5% of the population. Although assistance during old-age is a...

Social Action Budget Brief 2019 - Mozambique (ILO, UNICEF)

The publication analyses budget allocations, trends and fiscal space available for non-contributory social protection in Mozambique, raising several key aspects for policy makers consideration.

Fail, recalibrate, adapt, achieve: how Yapasa used the market systems approach to create opportunities for Zambia's rural youth

Fail, recalibrate, adapt, achieve: how Yapasa used the market systems approach to create opportunities for Zambia's rural youth

News

Reviewing the impact of Social Protection

The ILO, Government ministries, UN Partners, Donors, civil society and media embark on a Joint Annual Review to assess the impacts of Social Protection programmes in Zambia.

News

ILO Director visit Luapula Province

The ILO Director has embarked on the familiarization tour of Development Cooperation projects to meet partners, stakeholders, and beneficiaries of the projects.

Director presents credentials to COMESA

ILO Director Presents Credentials to COMESA Secretary General

The ILO Director has presented his credentials to COMESA Secretary General as special representative for the regional grouping.

BEST PRACTICE Advocacy for Social Protection Annual Social Protection Week in Mozambique

As advocacy activities have been playing a central role in the evolution of the national social protection system in Mozambique, with this document ILO aims at sharing the knowledge gathered during the implementation of Social Protection Weeks to...

« 100 Years – 100 Lives » | ZAMBIA - “Staying away from child labour will benefit the entire family, not just the child”

Febby Kahale is a 17-year-old girl who did not finish her schooling because she was working in tobacco fields. However, she and other children involved in child labour are now slowly going out of poverty thanks to an ILO project.

« 100 Years – 100 Lives » | ZAMBIA - “I turned my farm into an agribusiness and now I am an example in my community”

Farming is a major source of livelihoods in rural Zambia, but a lack of skills and knowledge often limits young farmers to subsistence agriculture. However, 27-year-old Felix Mulenga still managed to turn his farm into a real business thanks to an...

ILO’s Contribution to National Development

Permanent Secretary extols ILO’s Contribution to National Development

On 5 July 2019, the ILO Country Office Director Mr George Okutho paid a courtesy call on the Ministry of National Development Planning Permanent Secretary for Monitoring and Evaluation, Mr. Mushuma Mulenga.

UNCT Meeting

ILO hosts UNCT Meeting

The ILO Lusaka Country Office hosted the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) meeting.

2019 World Day Against Child Labour

Zambian Children Call for a Stop to Child Labour

The 2019 World Day Against Child Labour (WDACL) was commemorated under the theme: ‘Children should not work in the fields, but on dreams’. In Zambia, multitudes of youths assembled at Lusaka’s Olympic Youth Development Centre to mark the day.

Informality and Poverty in Zambia: Findings from the 2015 Living Conditions and Monitoring Survey

In Zambia like in many developing countries, quality and up-to-date data on the size and characteristics of informal workers are scarce, which constitutes a major challenge to the formulation of appropriate policies targeting this group, and the...