Zambian Governance Foundation – ZGF (April 2010 – March 2012)

The ZGF funds have been dedicated to enhance advocacy and communications within and outside JCM environment. This program aims at building Organisational capacities to ensure that it is able to engage and influence the policy processes which benefits all poor and vulnerable sections of society effectively.
The program also aims at ensuring that Organisations empower communities to engage with government institutions so that they claim what belongs to them as rights holders.
On the other hand, the program was designed to help organizations manage themselves effectively. By so doing, the organizations are also encouraged to enhance the culture of learning and knowledge sharing both internally and externally.
The program is being implemented in Zambia covering the following provinces; Northern, Luapula, Copperbelt, Central, Lusaka, Eastern and Northwestern.

Achievements So far
Advocacy Training for Staff and Community Representatives
Training was conducted for JCM staff and community representatives to
1. Build their capacity in understanding advocacy and its concepts.
2. Appreciation of the policy-making context including the policy-making system and the governance, social and economic factors that underpin development challenges and affect the choice of advocacy tools.
3. Defining problems and identifying entry points for engagement in the policy-making process
4. building of coalitions and initiating people-centered advocacy practices to facilitate sustained social transformation
5. development of practical advocacy strategies.

Staff and community members during advocacy training session at LAFE Hotel in Lusaka