EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Predicated on the national, regional, and international frameworks on disaster preparedness, response, and mitigation and the attendant enabling legal provisions for disaster management and mitigation, this report is based on the study conducted in the Dioceses across the ten (10) provinces to formulate an emergency Preparedness, Response and mitigation Plan, which is a critical tool aimed at guiding the Dioceses in preserving lives, protecting properties and the environment in an emergency.

Recognising the complex intersectionality of societies for which the plan is designed to serve, the study extended its catchment to include children so that the plan will be sensitive and responsive to the needs of the most vulnerable marginalized section of the population especially children, women, and people living with disability. It has been recognised that children and women are the most affected by disasters when they happen. Thus, the plan is envisaged to be a purview for actioning disaster preparedness and response measures for Dioceses in their jurisdictions for levelling up efforts to contribute to reduced vulnerabilities, while enhancing coping capacities and building resilience of exposed and susceptible communities to climatic and disaster risks.

Therefore, this Plan delivers a two-prong disaster management and mitigation strategy to amplify the adverse impacts of disaster and climatic shocks on children and vulnerable groups and provide recommendations on how they can be protected and recover from disaster and climatic shocks and how Dioceses and communities' capacities can be up-scaled in handling complexities and differential impact on communities arising from increased disaster occurrences.

Download the entire Caritas Zambia's Emergency Preparedness, Response and Mitigation (EPRM) Plan here: https://caritaszambia.org/phocadownload/key_papers/Caritas-Zambia-Emergency-Preparedness-Response-and-Mitigation-EPRM-Plan.pdf

Published by Caritas Africa, March 2024.

Download the entire Fraternal Cooperation In The Context Of Localisation And Decolonisation here: https://caritaszambia.org/phocadownload/key_papers/Fraternal-Cooperation-In-The-Context-Of-Localisation-And-Decolonisation.pdf

Published by Caritas Africa, March 2024.

Download the entire Rethinking Humanitarian and Development Assistance in Africa here: https://caritaszambia.org/phocadownload/key_papers/Rethinking-Humanitarian-and-Development-Assistance-in-Africa.pdf

An assessment for the inclusion of agroecology in Zambia's agricultural and agricultural-related policies.

"An agro-ecological approach always becomes a social approach that integrates questions of justice in debates of the environment and hears both the cry of the earth and that of the poor" - Caritas Zambia Policy brief, March 2023.

Download the entire Agroecology – A Sustainable Farming System For Zambian Farmers here: https://caritaszambia.org/phocadownload/policy_briefs/Policy-Brief-Agro-ecology.pdf

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PREAMBLE

To our public leaders and all people of good will. We greet you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ who calls us to a prophetic responsibility of promoting Justice, Human rights and the common good of the people of God.

Arising from the just ended Caritas (Integral Human Development - IHD) Commission meeting of directors of Caritas from the arch/dioceses of Zambia held at Kapingila House in Lusaka, from 4th to 6th July 2024. And upon our theological reflection on the state of the nation we wish to address ourselves to the pertinent concerns facing us in Zambia.

Download the entire Press Statement by Caritas (Integral Human Development) Commission - "Let Justice Flow" (Amos 5:24) here: https://caritaszambia.org/phocadownload/general/Catholic-Commission-For-Integral-Human-Development-Caritas-Press-Statement.pdf

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