Community Advocacy Strengthening and Accountability - CASA

Community Advocacy Strengthening
Communities must be able to demand for transparent and accountable services from providers. They must equally be responsible as they exercise their rights. Remembering that where ones rights end another's start...

We voted for our leaders, we did our part. What is remaining is for them to their part. we have built capacity in the citizens to demand for accountable and transparent service delivery. We want citizens of Kafue district to be able to demand for quality services in education and health. How do nurses treat you as you seek medical attention? Do you always find drugs at your clinic, if not always, do you know why? Is your child constantly paying for cobra or brooms? Is it possible for you to negotiate payment plans with the heads of the schools your children go to? Do come through to RICAP and share with us anything that affects your access to education and health. We may be able to do something about it.
REMEMBER, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEMAND FOR BETTER SERVICES.

This week was a time to see what the CASA project has achieved so far in the district, we also had an opportunity from community members of the District on what more the project can do for better health and education service delivery. We appreciate your commitment to thus great cause. Specifically we thank counterpart for this training, Twatasha for hosting us, and the rest of the participants.

Capacity strengthening for community volunteers

An Introductory meeting with the sector heads and other stakeholders.......... The meeting aimed at Introducing the CASA project as well as the FACT Project where CASA gets its support from. The Project Objectives,the goal, project activities and the Challenges that communities face under the Education and Health sector were outlined. More of this information will be shared with you on this platform. The meeting had the District Commissioner,the DEBs, Health personnel, HeadTeachers, DATF, Kafue Community Radio station among other representatives.

Mr Mubanga,thank you for the call you gave us this morning,it was productive. If there are some of you that would want to chat with us in line with this project please feel free to contact us with any of the following details:
Miss Thokozile- 0950240585
Miss Jingala - 0974978734
Mr Tundu- 0977666908
Mr Lungu- 0977410894

FREE EDUCATION POLICY
What do you think could be the reason?

Education is not only a human right, but it is also an essential tool for individuals to break the poverty cycle and to building the human capital of nations. Zambia is one of the poorest countries in the world and is home to 6 million children under the age of 18 of which 4 million children are of the primary school age (7-14). Though Zambia made commendable progress in increasing access and gender parity, more than a quarter million children are out of school and 47% of those enrolled in school do not complete the primary cycle.
The Free Basic Education Policy (Grades 1-7) was announced in February 2002 by the President of the Republic of Zambia, late Dr. Levy P. Mwanawasa. This was followed up by a circular dated 15th March, 2002 from the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education to all schools and education offices explaining what Free Basic Education entailed. This was in an effort to improve access and equity. The annual school census for the period from 2001 to 2002, including the declaration of Free Middle Basic Education, indicated a significant growth of pupil enrollment. This was a sharp contrast to previous trends when enrollments were increasing at lower than 2% every year, Despite the increased access and enrolment to education at both lower and middle basic levels, there were still a lot of imbalances.
Since the introduction of the free basic education policy in 2002, enrolment in basic education levels has steadily increased as stated earlier However, children from poor households, rural children and girls are the last to enroll in school and the first to drop out, and are significantly underrepresented in the upper grades of basic education as well as the secondary level

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What about this Page?
This platform will enable the Zambian citizens to discuss matters of Human Rights against service delivery by the central Government focusing on two sector; Health and Education sectors. We have nice policies under these two sectors but the question is; are they being implemented, what are the issues on the ground, what can we as responsible citizens do to improve service delivery and many more issues among those will be discussed on this platform. We are free to post anything in line with two sectors (Health and Education).

The cultural group and other concerned citizens during Ulukamantano discussing challenges that the people face under the Education and Heath sector.