Impact
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Zambia
Zambia
Data points :
National Assembly
The IPU data corresponds to the lower chamber if the parliament is bicameral. For information about upper chambers, refer to Parline
Women in parliament
14.97%
of MPs are women
Youth in parliament
34.13%
of MPs are under 45
MPs' human rights
1
cases currently treated by the Committee on the Human Rights of MPs
- Population 20.72 million people
- Number of MPs 167 MPs
- Legislature Unicameral
- Last election Aug 2021
- IPU Membership
- Common principles signatory
- Website www.parliament.gov.zm
- More data from Parline
This page contains the latest IPU news and data for this parliament. The percentage of women in parliament and the percentage of youth participation correspond to the lower chamber if the parliament is bicameral. The number of MP human rights cases corresponds to the latest decisions of the IPU Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians.
Innovation host
Host for Southern African hub innovation hubThis hub is part of the Centre for Innovation in Parliament.
The regional hubs promote the effective use of technology in parliaments by sharing and consolidating information on past, ongoing and future ICT initiatives at regional level, and through the CIP secretariat at global level. Membership: any parliament within the Southern African region.
Innovation stories
The National Assembly of Zambia has pioneered a distinctive approach to digital transformation that puts elected representatives at the centre of technological change. The Parliamentary Reforms and Modernisation Committee demonstrates how parliamentary modernization can succeed when driven by the people who will actually use the technology.
Faced with the disruptions of COVID-19, Zambia’s National Assembly shifted to hybrid meetings, mixing physical presence with digital connections. But parliamentary business remained hard to manage. A new eChamber app may be changing all that.
How the National Assembly of Zambia implemented “questions and answers” sessions through radio broadcasts
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Case studies
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