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Helping to make safe abortion a reality in Zambia
Impact Initiative, 2018Zambia has one of the most liberal abortion laws in sub-Saharan Africa. However, in spite of this, unsafe abortion continues to contribute to high rates of maternal mortality. Stigma, poverty, conscientious objectors, and lack of knowledge all contribute to why many adolescent girls and women do not and cannot access safe abortions in Zambia.DocumentResponding to the Safety and Security Needs of LGBTI Communities and Organisations: A situational analysis of Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Hivos, 2013The Safety and Security Project within Hivos’s (Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries) LGBTI Programme aims to ensure that LGBTI persons are able to live and work within safe communities without the fear of persecution, physical or property harm or intimidation, and with the full enjoyment of their human rights.DocumentCash for women's empowerment? A mixed-methods evaluation of the Government of Zambia' s Child Grant Programme
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2016The empowerment of women, broadly defined, is an often-cited objective and benefit of social cash transfer programmes in developing countries. Despite the promise and potential of cash transfers to empower women, the evidence supporting this outcome is mixed. In addition, there is little evidence from programmes that have gone to scale in sub-Saharan Africa.DocumentCash for women's empowerment? A mixed-methods evaluation of the government of Zambia's Child Grant Programme
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2016Social cash transfer programmes in developing countries are often claimed to benefit the empowerment of women, despite a lack of clear evidence supporting this outcome.DocumentChallenging disadvantage in Zambia: People with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities in the criminal justice system
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2015People with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities who engage in, or who are alleged to have engaged in, offending behaviour are likely to come to the attention of the police in much the same way as anyone else.DocumentPreventing and punishing sexual violence: the work of the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region
African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2013The International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) seeks to coordinate the efforts of a regional security community while simultaneously addressing the difficult and deep-rooted problems of sexual and gender-based violence in its member states.DocumentStatus of disability rights in Southern Africa
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2012People living with disabilities (PWD) are the most marginalised people in a region where life is already difficult for the majority of the population due to severe poverty, lack of development and high unemployment. In all countries, the rights of PWD are not given any priority by their governments.DocumentCountry profiles report Southern Africa disability rights and Law School project
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2012People living with disabilities (PWD) are the most marginalised people in a region where life is already difficult for the majority of the population due to severe poverty, lack of development and high unemployment. In all countries, the rights of PWD are not given any priority by their governments.DocumentWellbeing pathways report: Zambia round 2
Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways, University of Bath, 2014Based on fieldwork questions which gathered both objective and subjective data across key areas of life, this report presents the preliminary findings from the second round of fieldwork carried out in Chiawa, Zambia from August to October 2012 as part of the Wellbeing and Poverty Pathways research project.DocumentSourcing examples of policy and programming practice for empowering women in a rural context
Evidence on Demand, 2013This reports deals with the issue of empowering women in a rural context, aiming at promoting transformative gender policy by updating livelihoods advisers’ knowledge of gender in a changing agricultural and rural context.Pages