Zambia fails SADC gender test

It will also not attain the third United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goal (MDG), which calls for gender equality and empowerment of women, with the target for their representation in parliament at 30 percent in four years time.

Zambia will have other presidential, parliamentary and local government elections in 2016, a year after the gender targets with respect to representation in decision-making by SADC and the UN would already have been assessed.