Acknowledgements: Transparency International Zambia (TI-Z) thanks the Office of the Auditor General forundertaking and publishing the 2023 Auditor General’s Report on the ConstituencyDevelopment Fund. The CDF Audit report provided very important summary tables coveringall the constituencies and a great level of detail on major aspects of the ConstituencyDevelopment Fund Programme in Zambia. These tables were...Continue Reading

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]As we welcome the beginning of the year 2025, we are excited to celebrate with you the 25th anniversary of Transparency International Zambia. In this quarter of a century, it has been our privilege and duty to push forward the fight against corruption, advocating for stronger laws and transparent regulations and empowering communities to...Continue Reading

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]Money is essential for political participation. Political parties and candidates require financial and other resources to organise themselves, formulate their ideas, and communicate them to the public. However, unchecked or opaque funding can allow affluent vested interests to exert undue, disproportionate, or even criminal influence on politics and policymaking. A lack of transparency and...Continue Reading

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This cost of elections study sought to estimate the cost of winning the 2021 election as a Member of Parliament in Zambia, as well as to identify the cost drivers and collect perspectives of members of parliament on electoral reforms in Zambia. We used a carefully designed questionnaire: broken down into four different components, namely,...Continue Reading