Zambia
Zambia's State of Democracy assessment project was launched in 2010. Organized by the Foundation for Democratic Process (FODEP) and the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at the University of Zambia (UNZA), it marked the culmination of extended consultations with a broad range of stakeholders and partners about the need for an assessment. The assessment was conducted to determine the level of democracy in politics and society, and to provide recommendations on how any democratic weaknesses identified by the assessment could be rectified.
The report was well received by the government, and was used to stimulate a debate on the recommendations included in the document that were relevant for the constitution-making process. As previous constitution-making processes had been characterized by very low public participation, FODEP and UNZA seized the opportunity to increase public participation in the 2012 constitution-making process and to stimulate debate by using the media.
In addition to a democracy evaluation at the national level, International IDEA—in collaboration with the African Union of Local Authorities—conducted comprehensive evaluations of democracy at the local level in four cities in East and Southern Africa between 2002 and 2003: Gaborone City,Botswana, Lusaka, Zambia; Mwanza, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. The aim was to identify cities in the area that best represented some of the major local-level governance challenges in the region. The report on local democracy in Lusaka, Zambia aims to give practitioners and specialists a tool with which to evaluate the extent and quality of democracy at the city level.
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