Zambia drawing from strategies used within the SADC Region on the progressive realization towards achieving gender parity at all levels of decision making

This research seeks to identify the strategies that have been used with the Southern African Development Community region to raise the participation of women in decision making for the purposes of devising collective strategies that can be applied to Zambia. The first chapter identifies the problem and provides reasons as to why this research is significant; facts and figures as they exist on the ground in Zambia are thus provided. The second chapter identifies the absence of women in decision making as a global concern. It looks at the international, regional and sub-regional responses to the participation of women in decision making. The third chapter considers the strategies that have been used within the SADC region to raise the participation of women in decision making and provides an analysis of which strategies have worked. The research concludes by providing recommendations of best practices that can be applied within a Zambian Context.

Publisher: University of Zambia
Year of Publication: 2013