The COE concept seeks to ensure that key councils are identified across the region and worked with very closely in their process of getting gender on their council's agenda. The approach also seeks to develop synergy in GL programme work by focusing various projects from our SADC Gender Protocol, governance, media and justice programmes in specific localities.

The councils' progress in Zambia

Council	About the Council	Stages
Chongwe	Chongwe District Council is located in Lusaka Province of Zambia. Geographically, it is approximately located between the longitudes 28 and 42 Degrees east and between the latitudes 15 and 20 Degrees South.	Completed stages I, II, III, IV and VI
Kabwe	Kabwe Municipal Council (KMC) is geographically centrally located in the country. The council is politically controlled through elected representatives of the people through wards. The Council has the board of councillors, headed by His Worship the Mayor, who provides policy direction to the management.	Completed stages I, II, III and IV
Kapiri Mposhi	Kapiri Mposhi District council is located in the central province of Zambia. The district council has 95 employees. 27 are female and 68 are male.	Completed stages I, II, III and VI
Luanshya	Luanshya District is located on the Copperbelt Province of Zambia. Luanshya lies about 337 Kilometres to the north of the capital of Lusaka. The Local Authority was given the status of a Municipality in 1953. In 1957, the first Zoning Plan and The Town Planning Scheme was prepared and approved by the Governor-in-Council in Government Notice No. 187 of 1961.the Council has 14 wards of which there are 26 male councillors and only 4 Female councillors.	Completed stages I, II, III and VI
Chingola	Chingola Municipal council is located in the Copper belt province of Zambia. It has (2) constituencies which are Nchanga and Chingola. The Council has 27 elected councillors of which 25 are male and only 2 are Female. The council is part of the COE process and has done stages 1 to 4 of the COE process.	Completed stages I, II, III and IV
Monze	Monze district council has 22 wards with 22 elected Councillors with no female councillors.	Completed stage I
Mazabuka	Mazabuka Council is one of the 11 Councils of Zambia’s Southern Province. The Council is composed of twenty two (22) elected councillors from the twenty two (22) Wards of which three (3) are female and nineteen (19) male. The Council also comprises of three (3) elected Members of Parliament for its (3) three constituencies (Magoye, Chikankata and Mazabuka Central Constituencies).	Completed stages I, II and III
Kafue	Kafue district Council is Located in Kafue District of Lusaka province is one of the four districts in the Province. The others are: Luangwa, Lusaka and Kafue Districts. The council has 17 wards, and 17 elected Councillors. Out of the 17 elected councillors, only 3 are female councillors.	Completed stages I and II
Katete	Katete is one of the eight districts in the Eastern Province of Zambia. The District has Three Constituencies namely Milanzi, Sinda and Mkaika. The council has 28 Elected councillors of which 26 are male and two (2) are female. There are three members of parliament and two chief representatives which gives the total number of civic leaders to 33.	Completed stages I and II
Lusaka	As national capital, Lusaka is the seat of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government, epitomized by the presence of the National Assembly (parliament), the State House (office of the President), and the High Court. The city is also the capital of Lusaka Province, the smallest and second most populous of the country's nine provinces, and forms an administrative district run by Lusaka City Council.	Completed stage VI

Stages in the process are:
Stage I: Meetings with management teams and political heads of councils
Stage II: Situational Analysis
Stage III: Council level policy and implementation workshops
Stage IV: Community mobilisation village level meetings on the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development
Stage V: Capacity building through on the job training: Modules include: Gender, elections and the media, Making IT and the media work for you, Campaigns, Communication
Stage VI: Application of skills in the running of major campaigns, e.g. 365 Days of Action to End Gender Based Violence