Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) Digital Repository: Recent submissions
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Press Statement on The Auditor General’s Report on The Accounts of The Republic For The Financial Year Ended 31St December, 2013
(2013)The Report is rather gloomy and bleak in respect of the utility of public resources pointing to prevalence of resource disutility in the public service. There are many questions than answers regarding the operation of the ... -
2020 National Budget Doesn’t Offer Much Relief to Ordinary Citizens
(2019-10-01)In 2020, government has targeted a growth of 3%. This simply means that the current hardships majority citizens are facing will continue. Challenges such as lack of access to basic nutritious food, limited employment ... -
Insights of the August Basic Needs Basket (BNB): A discussion
(2020-09-27)This video is an interview with JCTR's Muchimba Siamachoka where she is discussing the Insights of the August Basic Needs Basket (BNB). She is interviewed by Annette Mulenga of JCTR. -
Active Citizenship Participation Beyond Elections
(2016)Zambia witnessed historic elections on 20 September 2011 in which the Patriotic Front (PF) emerged winners ousting the former ruling party the Movement for Multi Party Democracy MMD. The September elections, ended 20 years ... -
Access to Information Law in Zambia: For Who and for What?
(2018-05)Since the coming of the Patriotic Front (PF) party into power, there has been great public expectation about the enactment of the Access to Information law. This public expectation arose from the fact that it was one of ... -
Free and Fair Elections: Essentials of the Democratic Process
(2011-04)This year, 2011, Zambia will be holding its fourth general elections and fifth presidential election since the country’s return to multi-party democracy in 1991. Although there have been contrasting assessments with regard ... -
Investing Directly in The Poor: A Demand For Social Protection in Zambia
(2007-02)“There are a lot of problems in our society that need to be addressed by the government but no efforts have been made to address these issues. It is as though there is no government. People who are in power, people who are ... -
A Review of The Current Policy Environment Promoting Access to Early Childhood And Primary Education in Zambia
(2017)It is said that a successful implementation of any Early Childhood Education (ECE) programmes greatly depends on the availability of a comprehensive ECE policy. Sadly, for Zambia, fifty-two years after independence, the ... -
Socioeconomic Status, Health Status And Health Equity: A Case Study of Zambian Households in Selected Areas
(2003-03)Zambia has for long been experiencing high levels of poverty and inequality. This has been manifest in a number of ways, health poverty and inequality being one of them. The causes of the worsening poverty in Zambia have ... -
Survey on Employment Generating Policies and Strategies in Zambia
(2011-08)The basic fact that low income households possess few assets of their own can hardly be contested. The most abundant resource at the disposal of the poor is their labour. Thus, a development strategy that more fully employs ... -
Zambia’s Trade Situation: Implications For Debt And Poverty Reduction
(2005)The problem of unsustainable external debts continues to be a major source of concern among the civil society, cooperating partners, government and indeed other stakeholders. With Zambia’s qualification to the Heavily ... -
The Threat of Overpopulation in Zambia A Critique
(1994)A visitor from another planet, flying from London to Lusaka, would see very little from the air to suggest that the world experienced any problem of overpopulation. True, when leaving London he would see a city of 6,75 million ... -
Final Assessment Report on Public Investment in Children- The Case of Kitwe Zambia
(2018-01)The Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR), a faith based organization and a ministry of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), strives to translate into action Christian principles and values related to promoting social ... -
An Assessment of The Problems / Obstacles Faced By Informal Cross Border Traders in Zambia: The Case For Chipata And Livingstone Towns
(2002)Informal cross border trade (ICBT) is a phenomenon that has been in existence for some time now. A number of reasons have been cited to explain the emergence of informal cross border trade and. what seems to be common in ... -
Zambia Against Apartheid A Case on Apartheid- Caused Debt
(2000)Zambia's role in the struggle against racism and Apartheid was a moral one which was part of a universal struggle by humanity. Zambia sought peace, justice, and the harmony of humanity. The peace sought is a peace which ... -
Social Protection And Children’s Rights in Zambia
(2008-05)Social protection and the issue of children’s rights have been on the development agenda for over three decades. In the late 1980s and early 1990s social protection emerged as a critical response to the “social safety nets” ... -
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR): Foundations for Daily Living
(2019)In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), outlining the basic civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights that all human beings should enjoy. In 1966, ... -
Monitoring and Claiming Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Zambia
(2010)One of the basic foundations of human dignity is the enjoyment and/or realisation of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR). ESCR are entitlements which guarantee that socio-economic opportunities are made available, ... -
What is Necessary in A New Constitution to Meet the Development Needs of Zambians?
(2007)There is so much discussion in Zambia about the Constitution, especially with regard to what should be in the new Constitution as the National Constitutional Conference (NCC) meets. The Mung’omba Draft Constitution which ... -
Climate Change-How Ready is Africa and Zambia to Mitigate and Adapt?
(2012)Climate change is not only an environmental injustice, but a humanitarian and development emergency of global proportions. It is poised to significantly impact food security, livelihoods, health and other basic services. ...