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Speaker Urges MPs to embrace Gender Responsive Planning and Budgeting

The Speaker of the National Assembly of Zambia, the Rt. Hon Mr Justice Dr Patrick Matibini, SC, BA, FCIArb, MP has observed that gender inequality is a serious global challenge with half of the world’s population struggling to eliminate both the obvious and invisible barriers of gender equality.

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Gender Responsive Planning and Budgeting (GRPB) important in responding to women’s priorities, Cecilia Mbewe

Clerk of the National Assembly, Mrs Cecilia N Mbewe says the Gender Responsive Planning and Budgeting (GRPB) is an important activity that helps to track the way that national budgets respond to women’s priorities and the way Governments use funds to among other things, reduce poverty, promote gender equality, reverse the spread of HIV and lower the rates of maternal and child mortality.

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