Zambia Alliance of Women

28/07/2026

23/07/2026

The Health Expenditure Monitoring Peer Learning by International Budget Partnerships came to a close this afternoon. ZAW and JCTR worked together on Zambia’s desired actions.
“beneath the numbers”
“patients have the right to access safe, essential, and non-discriminatory healthcare, including medications.”
ZAW empowering women to take charge of their lives!!!

21/07/2026

Zambia Alliance of Women (ZAW) is part of the Health Expenditure Monitoring Peer Learning Exchange taking place in Nairobi, Kenya from 21-23 July, 2026. ZAW is being represented by its Executive Director, Edah Chimya.
The meeting which is being hosted by International Budget Partnership will focus on three factors around health budgets:
- Breaking Ground
- Digging Deeper
- Gaining Ground

16/07/2026

Zambia Alliance of Women Programmes Manager Ceasar Katebe today made a presentation at the on going 5 day training hosted by Root 2 Justice on Corporate Accountability at the Bracken Hurst Conference Centre in Nairobi-Kenya on the dam collapse by Sino-Metals that happened in Zambia which was a major environmental and public health crisis.
The failure of tailings dams owned by the mine affected local waterways, severely affecting livelihoods, farming, and aquatic life.The Crisis happened on February 18, 2025 in Chambishi-Copperbelt Province.
The spill discharged an estimated 1.5 million liters of highly acidic and toxic mining waste containing heavy metals, severely impacting the Mwambashi and Kafue River systems.
The toxic discharge contaminated vital water supplies, devastating farmlands, killing fish, and poisoning livestock.
This incident was a public health issue and nearby residents and those on the downstream suffered ongoing exposure to hazardous polluted water, threatening the well-being of communities relying on the Kafue River.
The Company admitted responsibility and offered interim compensation to affected communities, but civil society organizations (CSOs) such as ZAW argued that the relief packages were inadequate and required residents to sign legal waivers.
Ongoing Litigation Frustrated by slow responses, 176 affected residents filed a landmark constitutional lawsuit in the High Court of Zambia seeking comprehensive environmental remediation, equitable compensation, and emergency support.

15/07/2026

The Zambia Alliance of Women ( ZAW )was represented by Peter Musonda, Women’s Friday Market Resource Mobilisation Officer, at a two-day National Civil Society Organisations Consultative Meeting convened by the Civil Society for Poverty Reduction - CSPR. The meeting was held at Mukango Golfview Hotel in Lusaka.

The national consultations brought together representatives from the Ministry of Finance and National Planning, Civil Society Organisations, and other stakeholders. The objective was to reflect on the implementation of the Eighth National Development Plan - 8NDP and to contribute to the formulation of Zambia’s next five-year national development blueprint.

The consultation reaffirmed the critical role of civil society in national development planning, and the need to ensure that the 9NDP reflects the needs and priorities of citizens.

ZAW remains committed to the consultation process. During the deliberations, ZAW raised concerns about why gender was not prioritized as a thematic pillar in the 8NDP. ZAW advocated for gender to be included as both a standalone and a cross-cutting pillar in the 9NDP, to ensure that women’s economic empowerment, equity, and inclusion remain central to national development.

15/07/2026

Sbonelo Nkomo from Richard Spoors Advocates in SA speaking at the convening.

15/07/2026

Zambia Alliance of Women (ZAW) is participating in a five-day skills-sharing convening on Corporate Accountability for Environmental Harm and Related Human Rights Abuses, hosted by Roots to Justice for East and Southern Africa at the Brackenhurst Conference Centre in Limuru, Nairobi, Kenya.

The convening has brought together 18 lawyers and community activists from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The forum provides a platform for human rights defenders and community activists working on the frontlines of corporate accountability for environmental harm and related human rights violations across East and Southern Africa to share experiences, strengthen collaboration, and enhance legal and advocacy strategies.

The programme is centred around the following five key themes:

-Land dispossession, forced evictions, and failures of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC).
-Environmental harm and human rights abuses linked to mining and large-scale infrastructure projects.
-Accountability of International Financial Institutions (IFIs).
-Environmental harm and human rights abuses associated with carbon credit projects, conservation-related land grabs, and inadequate benefit-sharing in green energy projects.
-The intersection of environmental justice with women's rights and workers' rights.

The convening is also exploring several pressing legal challenges, including:

-Difficulties in pursuing legal proceedings in domestic courts due to judicial delays, inadequate judicial training, high litigation costs, language barriers, and the distance to courts.
- Corporate power imbalances and the complexity of navigating corporate structures;
-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) and the criminalization of lawyers and community activists.
-Challenges in gathering sufficient evidence to prove environmental harm and establish corporate liability and Corruption and weak enforcement of existing environmental laws and standards.

The meeting prioritizes peer learning and participant case-sharing, providing an opportunity for participants to exchange practical experiences, strengthen regional networks, and advance collective efforts towards environmental justice and corporate accountability.

Zambia Alliance of Women is represented at the convening by our Programmes Manager, Mr. Ceasar Katebe.

08/07/2026

Her Time is Now

30/06/2026

Today Tuesday, 30th June 2026, Zambia Alliance of Women (ZAW) was represented by Peter Musonda, Women’s Friday Market Resource Mobilisation Officer, at the Agenda 2063 Second Ten-Year Implementation Plan Country Domestication Mission Stakeholder Meeting held at Twangale Lodge, Chilanga.

As a CSO focused on gender equality and women’s economic empowerment, ZAW joined other civil society colleagues to contribute to Zambia’s efforts to domesticate the African Union’s Agenda 2063. The meeting provided a platform for ZAW to ensure that national development priorities, including the formulation of the Ninth National Development Plan (9NDP), reflect the needs and aspirations of women and girls. Mr. Musonda’s presence underscored ZAW’s commitment to aligning gender equality, green economy, and poverty reduction goals with continental aspirations.

26/06/2026

Zambia Alliance of Women (ZAW) Executive Director, Edah Chimya was one of the core actors at the CLOSED ROUNDTABLE (ACTION-ORIENTED)
From Dialogue to Action: Advancing Gender-Responsive Natural Resource Governance held at NRGI office in Central London yesterday 25th June, 2025. The meeting focused at positioning gender equity as a core challenge in the energy transition, climate justice and natural resource governance
● Amplifying Global South perspectives via our partners and networks
● Shifting from disclosure → action, focusing on:
○ Who decides
○ Who benefits
○ What gets tracked
● Building connections across:
○ Resource governance stakeholders
○ Climate policymakers
○ Financial institutions and ESG actors
Publish What You Pay Zambia
Open Society Foundations
Resource Justice Network