Activities

Project activity updates

Results Area 1

18 civil society organizations (CSOs) awarded grants to undertake voter education in the 10 provinces of Zambia valued at USD 783, 386 (ZMW 17.4 Million)
CSOs trained and deployed 3, 295 community voter education facilitators
CSOs Voter Education Facilitators directly reach a cumulative total of over 1.29 million people in all the 10 provinces
CSOs recorded and produced 138 radio spots (public service announcements (PSA) and adverts) and 412 radio programmes.
The project facilitated and contributed to the PLC voting for the first time in Zambia’s 56-year history. Over ninety per cent[1] (90%) of the 14, 963 registered inmates turned out to vote.

[1] Based on CSOs activity reports

Results Area 2

A South-to-South two-day colloquium on electoral dispute resolution held to share experiences
353 Judicial Staff and legal practioners trained electoral dispute resolution mechanisms

Result Area 3

250 media personnel trained on elections reporting best practice, fair and objective media coverage
ECZ with financial and technical support of the Project delivers 37,475 electronic voter education placements across the various media platforms.
iVerify Zambia Mechanism on identifying and mitigating Misinformation and Disinformation launched
41 staff and partners Fact Checkers and Focal Points/Reporters for the iVerify Zambia Mechanism on identifying and mitigating Misinformation and Disinformation
589 reports received through iVerify Zambia mechanisms; with 39 reports published ( https://iverify.org.zm/ )

Top: Zambian CSOs Received Over $800,000 Grants

Middle: Zambia votes for a new president

Below: Validation Workshop iVerify 2021

Results Area 4

Forty (40) ECZ national voter education trainers (NVETs) were trained to facilitate voter education content and methodology
232 ECZ district voter education trainers trained to roll out
ECZ and UNDP co-financed the training and deployment of 3,395 voter education facilitators across the country
Enhanced electronic voter and civic education was provided to ECZ through a third-party media agency. Blackdot on behalf of ECZ produced[1] 32 docudramas (4 in each language), 88 posters (13 in English, 10 in each local language), 8 TV messages (1 in each language), 40 radio ads (5 in each language), 8 jingles (1 in each language), 13 TV messages by Chiefs (in all 8 languages) and 13 radio messages by Chiefs (in all 8 languages).
Seven (7) types of brochures, posters, and flyers (95,000 printed materials) were transcribed and formatted in sign language and large print.

Result Area 5

The project contributed to the drafting of the following bills: 2021 Electoral Process (Amendment) Bill, the 2021 Electoral Commission of Zambia Amendment Bill, and the 2021 Prisons Amendment Bill, 2021; and, the 2021 Campaigns in Prisons and Correctional Centers Regulations.

Results Area 6

13,385 (10,312 male, 3,073 female) officers trained in elections security and deployed
164 (81 male, 83 female) Community Safety (CS) officers trained in identified hotspots across the 10 provinces
EWERS was officially launched
87 district monitors and members from several CSOs trained and deployed
627 EWER reports received. Verified reports account 336 incidents reports and 75 risks reports. 55% of the reported incident were web-based; 25% were through the 8181 Toll free line and the remaining 19% through the SMS gateway.