Stakeholders react to Grow Zambia agenda

Meanwhile, Women for Change and the Non-governmental Gender Organisations’ Coordinating Council (NGOCC) have called on President Hakainde Hichilema’s administration to deliberately place women and girls at the centre of the Grow Zambia agenda.

Women for Change Executive Director, Lumba Siyanga also welcomed the President’s call for national unity and reconciliation, noting his recognition that those who voted differently were not enemies.

“However, from a Women for Change gender and social justice perspective, economic growth must be inclusive, equitable and deliberately gender-responsive. Women constitute a significant proportion of small-scale farmers, informal traders, entrepreneurs and caregivers,” she said.

Similary, NGOCC Board Chairperson, Beauty Katebe said the new term offers an opportunity to build on previous efforts and deepen an inclusive agenda that leaves no Zambian behind.

“NGOCC therefore calls on the President to use the provision for eleven nominated parliamentary seats to deliberately and strategically increase the number of women in the National Assembly, in line with Zambia’s constitutional provisions and international commitments to gender parity, including the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development,” Katebe said.

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