Kafue District Council

Kafue District Council had challenges especially in involving management in GBV issues and women were not part of decision making. Civic Leaders, Management and employees both were not concerned about the gender based violence and each other. Currently, the council has increased the number of women in management and middle management. Employees are free to discuss GBV issues at work place. The council had 22 female employees with none in management and now it has 48 female employees with 6 in management and 7 in middle management. This has improved work relationships among employees and service deliveries as both genders are involved. The total number of permanent employees is 140. The Local Authority has a gender policy developed and the same is guiding policy direction and gender mainstreaming has taken root. The Local Authority will soon table the policies so far developed for council decision and to incorporate evaluation and monitoring mechanisms.The delay in council decision on the policies has been necessitated by the staff turnover arising from transfers of key management staff by the Local Government service commission. The District Council is fully committed to ensuring that the gender policy permeates all Council policies and contribute significantly to attainment of the 50/50 gender equality by 2015. To prove this point the Local authority has budgeted a total amount of K 33,000 under 2014 annual budget to carry out gender activities specifically. Other than that all activities under the budget takes into account the provisions of the gender policies. For example all recruitments, Land administration, staff development programs etc. have been designed taking into account the provisions of the gender policy.