Zambia

Women with disabilities continue to face significant obstacles to equal participation in economic development initiatives. Microfinance services have been rightly criticised for their failure to deliver poverty alleviation and women’s empowerment. Yet, despite their limitations, these schemes currently dominate the development scene. Disabled women need and want access to credit and associated services, and to […]

Using data from research in Zambia, and drawing on the broader literature on HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, and gender, this paper examines the difficulties faced by women who wish – or are pressured – to have children, but at the same time want to protect themselves and their children against HIV infection. This article is hosted […]

Needs assessments of adults and children in households affected by HIV/AIDS in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa indicate that food provision is a critical support area which has been neglected in mitigation interventions. This paper looks at practical options for targeting food aid within a development framework, using Zambia as a case country. This article […]

This paper examines how we measure work and labour in agriculture in rural sub-Saharan Africa. It has increasingly been recognised that many rural African women have heavy workloads; in some accounts, this is contrasted with apparently light work burdens for men. I argue that in making women’s work visible, where once it was not, it […]

Practical notes based on ‘Alternative financial institutions? Sustainability, development, social reproduction, and gender analysis’, ‘Information affluence for the developing world: the vision and work of WorldSpace’, ‘A participatory approach to community-based HIV/AIDS awareness’ and ‘Resuscitating voter interest in Zambia: the Adult Education Association of Zambia’s role in national elections’ This article is hosted by our […]

This article discusses the impact of a community-based distribution (CBD) project in Eastern Province, Zambia, on reproductive health and gender relations. It shows how reproductive health can be furthered through participatory methods, including both ‘hard’ information technologies and ‘soft’ communications techniques to promote the use of reproductive technologies in controlling fertility and protecting against sexually […]

The author gives an account of a partnership between a UK-based NGO and the Zambian government, designed to encourage `smallholder farmers to form `cattle clubs’ [to] operate and manage community cattle-spraying points on a full cost-recovery basis’. The project’s success has been tempered by changes in the external environment and the perceptions of the farmers, […]