Zambia Political Accountability & Leadership Programme Project

Objectives:

To advocate for constitutional, legal, regulatory and policy reforms for effective systems of governance.
To promote electoral integrity, independence, transparency and effectiveness of the Electoral Commission of Zambia.
To support civil society oversight of political and electoral processes throughout the electoral cycle.

Project budget: 99,736 USD

Duration: March 2024 – February 2025

Districts: National level

Funding

Funded by:

through a subgrant from:

Intervention

This project is a progression and expansion on the previous actions that focused on enhancing political integrity and transparency in political party and campaign financing in Zambia.

The present intervention seeks to advance broader democratic governance reforms, promotion of electoral integrity and support a robust civil society oversight of political and electoral processes.

Some of the main activities that the project will carry out include:

mapping Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and organizing a joint coalition on the constitutional making process
advocacy campaigns and engagement meetings with political stakeholders, including the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ)
electoral process monitoring
research on electoral management and intra party electoral processes
developing an intra-party electoral processes monitoring framework
carrying out public campaigns, sensitization workshops and media engagement

Updates

Elections and Money: Perspectives from Members of Parliament in Zambia

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, [...]

Remarks by Mr. Maurice K. Nyambe, TI-Z Executive Director, at the Civil Society and Media Engagement Meeting on Constitutional Reform

REMARKS BY MR. MAURICE K. NYAMBE, TI-Z EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, AT THE CIVIL SOCIETY AND MEDIA ENGAGEMENT MEETING ON CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM HELD ON 1ST AUGUST 2024 AT MKANGO HOTEL, LUSAKA Salutations I am honored to have the opportunity to give this address on behalf of the CSO Constitutional Reform Coalition, to share what we consider should […]

Remarks By Mr. Maurice K. Nyambe, TI-Z Executive Director, at the Political Parties Engagement Meeting on Campaign Financing in Zambia, on Wednesday 23rd August 2023

Salutations I am greatly honoured to have this opportunity to make a few remarks on the very pertinent issue of political party and campaign financing, which TI-Z considers to be a key political governance issue requiring attention by all stakeholders. In line with our mandate of fighting corruption and advocating for good governance in Zambia, […]

Remarks by Mr Raymond Mutale, the TI-Z Programmes Manager, at the 2nd Media Briefing of 2023 on Enhancing Political Integrity and Transparency in Campaign Financing in Zambia on 28th March 2023.

Salutations Ladies and gentlemen, I welcome you all to Transparency International Zambia’s second media briefing on our political party integrity project. Today, I want to draw your attention to a critical issue that affects the very foundation of Zambia’s democracy: the need for political party and campaign financing legislation, and some preliminary results from our […]