News Event Social Protection and COVID-19 Web Public Discussion Rights based social protection systems are crucial to safeguarding the vulnerable and the poor in shock and crisis situations. In many countries in southern Africa, particularly in Zambia such systems remain limited in coverage and need...
News Event ZCTU PRE-BUDGET WORKSHOP Zambia’s economic growth has slumped from the consistent growth averaging above 6 percent between 2006 and 2016 to below 4 percent between 2017 and 2019. The low economic growth in the medium term is characterized with high public debt...
News Event Publication Developing gender-sensitive social protection in Africa: Insights from South Africa’s Child Support Grant In this technical brief, South Africa’ Child Support Grant (CSG) programme is used as a case study to illustrate the argument. Despite adopting a gender-neutral approach to transfer targeting that did not intentionally place burdens of...
Event Corona Brief Africa The #FESAfricaCoronaBrief and blog series titled: “Disrupted: How COVID-19 is affecting societies across Africa” will investigate how African countries, governments and societies are responding to the pandemic.
News Event International Women’s Day Dialogue and Engagement Forum On Friday 6th March 2020 the Zambian National Women’s Lobby (ZNWL) in cooperation with the FES Zambia invited to the International Women’s Day Dialogue and Engagement Forum at the Hilton Garden Inn in Lusaka to discuss upon the issue of...
News Event MISA STATE OF THE MEDIA REPORT LAUNCH The State of the Media in Zambia is a quarterly report on the events touching the environment under which the media operated during the period under review. The report is a summary on the conditions under which the media has operated, a...
News Event Publication Launch of the "Social Security for All" Project Publication FES started the project "Social Security for All" in 2016, the aim was to find out under which conditions national implementation processes for social protection floors can best be fostered through the creation of bottom-up demand from...
News Event Publication Baseline Study to Map Existing Informal Economy Structures in Zambia and their specific needs The informal economy plays a critical role in the lives of millions of individuals in both urban and rural settings across the globe. It provides livelihoods, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. Initially regarded as a passing...
