Overview
This policy updates Zambia’s 2000 National Gender Policy to address persistent and emerging challenges such as gender-based violence, child marriage, HIV and AIDS, cancer, poverty, and climate change. It outlines cross-cutting and sector-specific issues in education, health, agriculture, land, energy, water and sanitation, social protection, transport, ICT, labour, tourism, housing, and local governance. The document sets a vision of a nation with gender equity and equality for sustainable development and details 15 policy objectives with measures ranging from legal harmonisation and gender-responsive planning and budgeting to economic empowerment and decision-making parity. It establishes an institutional framework led by the Ministry of Gender and Child Development, with roles for Cabinet, line ministries, provinces, statutory bodies, and non-state actors. The policy references the legal and regulatory context, including domestic acts and regional/international instruments (e.g., CEDAW, SADC Protocol), and provides for resource mobilisation and a results-based monitoring and evaluation system with a Gender Information Management System.