{"id":373,"date":"2025-07-02T14:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T14:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.grz.gov.zm\/zanis\/?p=373"},"modified":"2025-07-02T14:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T14:47:12","slug":"canada-injects-k1-5-million-to-support-womens-participation-in-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"CANADA INJECTS K1.5 MILLION TO SUPPORT WOMEN&#8217;S PARTICIPATION IN ZAMBIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Gender Division Permanent Secretary Mainga Kabika has appreciated the Canadian government for its financial contribution of K1.5 million towards elevating the participation of women in political leadership in the country.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Ms Kabika notes that women\u2019s participation in decision-making is a gender inequality issue requiring attention, adding that women remain significantly underrepresented in senior leadership positions, particularly in political leadership across the country.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cYour support is not only a testament to Canada\u2019s commitment to enhancing the capacity of female politicians but also a catalyst for empowering women at local level,\u201d added Ms Kabika.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Permanent Secretary was speaking at her office during the launch of the Elevate Female Political Leadership initiative, with support from the Canadian High Commission.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gender Division Permanent Secretary Mainga Kabika has appreciated the Canadian government for its financial contribution of K1.5 million towards elevating the participation of women in political leadership in the country. Ms Kabika notes that women\u2019s participation in decision-making is a gender inequality issue requiring attention, adding that women remain significantly underrepresented in senior leadership positions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-onlyzanis","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanis.gov.zm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}