Tagged: Zambia

A woman sits on the ground and a child throws her a ball.

Playful parenting in practice: a mom’s love and care in Zambia

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As we approach Suzan Shawa’s home, she stands with a broad smile at the edge of her yard. I stroll over, wrapping my chitenge cloth around my trousers and responding to her warm Chichewa greeting of “Muli Bwanji” (‘How are you?’). At the entrance, we washed our hands at a handwashing bucket with clean water and soap. I was… Read more →←
Un enfant sur une planche sur l'eau qui pagaie.

Paddling to school in Zambia

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The Zambian town of Mongu sits on a small hill. From its modest height you get an elevated view of the horizon across the Barotse floodplain, one of Africa’s largest wetland areas. The flooded Zambezi shows few signs of movement, though the water here is gradually flowing South, and will eventually gather speed to plummet over the… Read more →←
Three young girls wearing black t-shirts with the words Zambian Girls 2030 and the UNICEF logo strike a pose for the camera.

Adolescent voices: Girls 2030

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Broadening girls’ horizons in Zambia As I climbed the stairs to the main meeting room, I could already sense the buzz and excitement. The floor shook as around a hundred girls in their mid-teens performed dances, stamped their feet and sang choruses. The shout went up: “You can make a difference. We can make a difference.” All the… Read more →←
People standing outside a departing yellow bus interact and gesture to people on the bus in Zambia.

All aboard for a new life in Zambia

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There’s a buzz of excitement as hundreds of Congolese refugees look for seats on the minibuses that will take them further inside Zambia. As the 246 refugees take their places, conversations with friends and family continue through open bus windows – the Congolese hold hands and chat, while staff from UNHCR count numbers. The people… Read more →←
Mother leaning over a malnourished baby on her lap

Have you ever thought of HIV as the solution?

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A special supplement of the Journal of the International AIDS Society, which I have co-edited with Douglas Webb and Lucie Cluver, considers the impact the new Agenda 2030 (the outline to help institute the Sustainable Development Goals) is going to have on work in the HIV field. Will it mean our efforts no longer have the same focus as… Read more →←
Looking down at a newborn baby.

Cash transfers and fertility: new evidence from Africa

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Social cash transfers are an increasingly popular tool in African national governments’ social protection strategies, but a question that often comes up about their use is will such programmes – targeted to families with young children – encourage parents to have larger families in a region with stubbornly high fertility rates?… Read more →←

Cash transfers in Africa – evidence on the impact

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The Great Recession of 2008 prompted many traditional donor countries to cut back foreign aid budgets. Pressure from lawmakers is now greater than ever for aid dollars to go further, and for development programmes to prove that aid is linked to tangible changes in the lives of children in the poorest regions of the world. Well, it turns… Read more →←

Youth in Zambia: using U-Report to take charge of their futures

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I met Josephine earlier this year, a bright 21-year-old young woman from a country where 68 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line and three young people become infected with HIV every hour, two of them being girls. That’s an average of 72 young people infected per day, and 27,000 per year. These numbers are strong… Read more →←
In Zambia's Southern Province health worker volunteers are trained to use SMS technology known as Remind MI (Remind Mother and Infant) in delivering results and reminders to clients of the rural health centre.

ICT4D: a coming of age

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C4D, S4D and now ICT4D. The latest “4D” could represent one of the most important social and economic development trends in years. Communication technologies have long been seen as development “silver bullets.” First radio was going to boost productivity for rural farmers, then TV sets were supposed to replace teachers in remote… Read more →←

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