| dc.contributor.author | Sauti, John Kunda | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-03T08:26:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-05-03T08:26:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-05-01 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14274/1783 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The bulwark of decentralization is making citizens become protagonists of their own development and democracy agenda. Even though Zambia is a representative democracy, the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) in principle creates a platform for ordinary citizens to directly influence the kind and quality of their democracy through being protagonists of their development destinies; this is the bulwark of decentralization and subsidiarity. Succinctly, CDF is an avenue for direct democracy in Zambia- people must directly manage their own development at the lowest levels. The democracy summit held in Zambia on 29th and 30th March 2023 presented a candid opportunity for the national, regional, continent and global reflection and discernment on our democracies. A post-mortem of the democracy summit catalysed a critical argument that democracy is not end in itself, but a mere means to achieving public participation in governance, quality social and economic service delivery, good governance, transparency and accountability, common good, enlarging the civic space and constitutionalism. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | National Democratic Institute (NDI) and ActionAid | en |
| dc.publisher | Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection | en |
| dc.rights | Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ | * |
| dc.subject | CDF | en |
| dc.subject | Constituency Development Fund | en |
| dc.subject | Democracy | en |
| dc.subject | Zambia | en |
| dc.title | Linking Constituency Development Fund to Democracy in Zambia | en |
| dc.title.alternative | Linking CDF to Democracy in Zambia | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
