Experience

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  Ipas Southern Africa

  • Zambia

  • Policy, Advocacy , Community and Youth Advisor/ Consultant

    • May 2022 - Present
    • Zambia

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  SRHR Social Accountability Mechanism

  • Lusaka, Lusaka Province, Zambia

  • Committee Member – Sexual Reproductive Health Rights Social Accountability Mechanism

    • Jun 2016 - Present
    • Lusaka, Lusaka Province, Zambia

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  Consultant

  • Gender; Legal, Human Rights and SRHR Consultant/ Advocate

    • Jan 2005 - Present

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  IPAS ZAMBIA

  • Lusaka

  • Policy Advsior II - Ipas Zambia

    • Jul 2016 - May 2022
    • Lusaka

    Providing overall management in the planning, budgeting, and implementation of policy activities.Colloborating with other sectors to ensure effective integration of activities in order to leverage resources, focus on greater impact and ensure cost effective implementation. Engage and support the Ministry of Health to ensure relevant processes, policies, laws is put in place to reduce barriers to health. Conducting consultative meetings with religious leaders, members of parliament, and civil society organizations on the best ways to address policy and legal barriers as well inequities in accessing sexual reproductive and health services. Engaging media editors and journalists on reporting on sexual and reproductive health rights and working with the research and evaluation unit to conduct evaluations and ensuring institutions of higher learning integrate SRHR into their training modules and conducting trainer of trainers trainings in SRHR.

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  Kenneth Kaunda Metropolitan University

  • Lusaka

  • Part Time Lecturer in Law

    • Feb 2017 - Dec 2017
    • Lusaka

    Set and mark sessional examinations, administer continuous assessments to students including setting and marking of tests and assessments, ensuring that the learning objectives and learning needs of students are met by teaching the content in the syllabi, use of teaching delivery methods suitable for the learners and delivery of appropriate learning and undertaking any other related and necessary training as may be required.

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  Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIRDZ)

  • Lusaka

  • Community Advisory Board (CAB) Member

    • May 2016 - Dec 2017
    • Lusaka

    Provide a community perspective on the proposed CIRDZ research agenda, provide assistance to research by projects by reviewing key documents, advising on participant recruitment and retention strategies ,and assisting the community to understand research in research areas of Lusaka, Western, Southern and Eastern Provinces.

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  Action Aid Zambia

  • Lusaka

  • Member of General Assembly

    • Nov 2014 - Dec 2017
    • Lusaka

    Participating in electing and supporting the Action Aid Board, guide and determine long term and strategic direction, participating in appointing an external auditor, participating in the approval of the statutory audit report, annual financial statements, plans, strategies and policies, participating in the review of the organisational performance and performing any other duties as prescribed in the constitution or as requested by the board.

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  John Snow Inc./ USAID SHAReII Project

  • Kabulonga , Lusaka

  • Gender and Advocacy Manager

    • Jun 2013 - Aug 2015
    • Kabulonga , Lusaka

    Working with the Legal and Policy team to ensure that gender issues and approaches are appropriately integrated in the process of strengthening the HIV-related policy and regulatory environment. Working with GRZ officials, institutions and other stakeholders to identify and address key gender barriers to an effective HIV/AIDS response and provide technical assistance in selecting and prioritizing advocacy objectives for an improved and gender-sensitive HIV/AIDS response .In collaboration with the Public Services Management Division (PSMD) support line ministries to ensure that HIV/AIDS sectoral policies adequately mainstream gender. Supporting the HIV/AIDS policy work currently being undertaken by SHARe II partners in the private sector and ensure that gender related issues are addressed as part of comprehensive workplace Wellness and HIV/AIDS programmes. Working with the Legal and Policy manager and key stakeholders to provide technical expertise to build strategic coalitions and partnerships to support revision and operationalization of the national HIV/AIDS workplace Policy through the Policy Implementation plan. Working with the SHARe II legal team to ensure that partner institutions of higher learning which are working with SHARe II mainstream HIV/AIDS into their curricula and also integrate critical gender issues that impact on HIV/AIDS .Working with key GRZ stakeholders, especially the Ministry of Gender and Child Development, on issues related to gender and HIV/AIDS, and provide technical support to track the extent of Gender mainstreaming in HIV/AIDS policies, plans, budgets and programmes .Working closely with the leadership team and the legal team to support traditional leaders to ensure that gender related factors that fuel the spread of HIV/AIDS are identified in different traditional settings and addressed accordingly. Coordinate and support gender related advocacy work arising from on-going work by the SHARe II project and its partners

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  UNHCR Zambia, Solwezi Field Office

  • Solwezi

  • Assistant Community Services Officer

    • Nov 2011 - Oct 2013
    • Solwezi

    Advising and supporting UNHCR Zambia, in the implementation of the organization’s policy priorities in the area of gender equality, child protection and community development. Engaging actively with refugee women, men, girls and boys of diverse backgrounds to identify protection risks including individual refugees at heightened risk of abuse and violence especially gender based violence. Supporting the implementation of UNHCR policy priorities including child protection, gender equality and prevention and response to gender based violence through spearheading awareness campaigns to promote gender equality ,strengthening partners ‘and communities knowledge about women and children’s rights and how to access them and promoting survivors ‘access to the law enforcement and judicial bodies.

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  University of Zambia

  • University of Zambia (UNZA), Department of Adult Education and Extension Studies

  • Part-Time Lecturer in Law

    • Jan 2010 - Dec 2012
    • University of Zambia (UNZA), Department of Adult Education and Extension Studies

    Teaching Diploma Law Students in Human Rights

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  UNDP

  • Mongu

  • Legal, Gender and Human Rights Specialist, United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP)

    • Dec 2008 - Nov 2011
    • Mongu

    Assisting in the implementation of the Zambian Human Rights Commission Strategic Plan, conducting research in legal policy reform, interviewing, counseling and advising clients on various legal and human rights related matters, investigating human rights violations and abuses including GBV as well as maladministration of justice, strengthening capacity of HR stakeholders to implement a Gender and Human rights based approach to development. Providing information and resource materials on the state of human rights, advocacy, community mobilization and capacity building, facilitation of Law, Human Rights and Gender related workshops, seminars and trainings Enhancing law, gender and human rights education activities in urban and mainly rural areas. Providing government ministries and departments with information on their human rights obligations, visiting refugee camps, police and prison facilities, monitoring ,assessing and evaluating the government’s performance with regard to HR obligations vis-a-vis recommendations of Annual State of Human Rights Reports ,Vision 2030 and the MDGs.Collecting data for the annual state of human rights report, and evaluating the government’s performance with regard to human rights obligations, coordinating the development ,formulation and implementation of human rights activities encompassed in the Engagement Plan. Facilitate planning and delivery, support synergies and partnership with Civil Society Organizations in the area of Law, Gender and human rights and formulating a monitoring and evaluation programme to ensure timely assessment of activity progress. Representing the Commission at various fora and various provincial bodies. Designing and implementing together with other relevant departments activities as directed and informed by the Commission’s Strategic Plan, Annual Workplans designed with UNDP assistance and yearly activity plans.

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  UNICEF Headquarters

  • Intern

    • Dec 2007 - Apr 2008

    Gender and Rights Unit, Global Policy Section, Division of Policy and Planning, New York, USA. Reporting to the Programme Officer, Human Rights and the Project Officer, Gender-Evaluating and analyzing 2006 -2009 Country Office Annual Reports (COAR) using a set of gender and human rights criteria including Results Matrix and the Medium –Term Strategy Plan (MTSP) for 2006-2009, looking at research in gender, reviewing and evaluating new innovations and lessons and reviewing and evaluating of policy versus practice in both human rights and gender. Tracking references to gender issues, analyzing linkages in the work of country offices vis-à-vis attention to gender as linked to results advanced across MTSP areas. Use this tool for analytically representing UNICEF’s work in the field with regards to gender

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  Legal Resources Foundation

  • Kitwe

  • Learner Advocate

    • Sep 2005 - Jan 2007
    • Kitwe

    Interviewing ,counseling and advising clients on various legal and human rights matters, drafting legal documents, investigating human rights violations and abuses, conducting legal and human rights training to the community, advocacy, legal literacy, conducting outreach programmes like visiting prisoners and refugees in refugee camps to help solve their human rights problems, holding mobile human rights clinics with emphasis on gender, women, refugees and children’s rights, resolving disputes ex-curia (outside court settlements through negotiation and mediation) and carrying out various researches and preparing monthly statistics. Helping, especially the disadvantaged sectors of society in relation to violations of their fundamental rights and enhancement of justice

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  Copperstone University

  • Kitwe

  • Lecturer - School of Law

    • Jun 2005 - Jan 2007
    • Kitwe

    Lecturing, setting assignments, tests and examinations for Law students. Member of the University Examinations Board