{"id":3108,"date":"2026-03-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=3108"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:54:51","slug":"mazabuka-dc-welcomes-review-of-drought-relief-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=3108","title":{"rendered":"MAZABUKA DC WELCOMES REVIEW OF DROUGHT RELIEF PROGRAMS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">MAZABUKA District Commissioner Oliver Mulomba has welcomed the Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) leading a consortium of research partners who are in the district to assess the effectiveness of the social intervention programs which were implemented by the government during the 2024 drought.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">CSPR Executive Director Isabel Mukelabai who was represented by Programs Manager, Tommy Singongi says the research project dubbed &#8216;Systems strengthening for evidence based advocacy for crisis preparedness, recovery and resilience building&#8217; will help the country to transition from a reactive humanitarian response model to a proactive adaptive and locally owned system of resilience building.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ms &nbsp;Mukelabai noted that while the government responded to the drought by introducing a K41 billion supplementary budget which birthed the cash for work, emergency social cash transfer, and the wetlands food security pack programs, the response came more than a month after the drought had taken hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;It is this gap between crisis onset and effective response that lies at the heart of the research project,&#8221; she said.&nbsp;   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAZABUKA District Commissioner Oliver Mulomba has welcomed the Civil Society for Poverty Reduction (CSPR) leading a consortium of research partners who are in the district to assess the effectiveness of the social intervention programs which were implemented by the government during the 2024 drought.&nbsp; CSPR Executive Director Isabel Mukelabai who was represented by Programs Manager, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latestnewsleft","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3109,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108\/revisions\/3109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}