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The main purpose of the study was to establish the reasons for the poor performance of pupils in selected high schools of Chipata District in summary. Specifically, the study was based on the premises that performance of pupils in English, and summary in particular, is a result of several...

The main purpose of this research was to investigate the main impediments to the institutionalization of the Annual Performance Appraisal System in the Zambian Public Service. Institutionalization of reform programmes such as performance appraisal has proved to be a daunting and challenging...

« Men are like birds of the sky. They converge in a kachele tree (type of fig tree but with small fruits) and eat its fruits to their fill; so are men, they till and harvest from the land. There is no need to quarrel over land since nobody owns it but God for his people is the owner".Chief Sairi...

In this study, six indigenous Zambian food plants have been analysed for their nutrient content. These include two leafy wild vegetables, two wild fruits and two wild root tubers. The leafy vegetables were also dried and stored under traditional storage conditions and later analysed for their...

Background: With thousands of the HIV infected Zambian population on ART, there are worries that people on ART may be engaging in high risk sexual behaviours thereby nullifying the impact of current HIV prevention efforts.Objectives: This study therefore investigated sexual behaviours among...

This research study is aimed at identifying adult education processes that can be used to enhance the self-employed artisans’ understanding of Zambia’s taxation issues in selected markets of Lusaka. Six artisan markets out of the targeted fifteen were purposively selected after a conducted...

Provision of clean water and access to healthy sanitary systems are critical aspects of environmental health. In view of the Current Constitution of Zambia it is clear that these services are viewed as mere policy directives. However Economic Social and Cultural Rights should not be viewed as...

In Zambia, sanitation options are still few and inadequate to effectively serve the urban poor in peri-urban settlements. Continued growth of the settlement now calls for alternatives to pit latrines, which have become difficult to manage given the increasing population. Sanitation is poor hence;...

In 1990, the Education for All EFA movement was launched at the World Conference in Jomtein, Thailand. At this conference, 155 countries and 150 organisations agreed to universalise primary education and massively reduce illiteracy by the end of the decade. The EFA movement focused on the need to...