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The study’s main purpose was to investigate the factors contributing to low participation of adults in literacy programmes in Kabwe and Mufumbwe Districts. Whilst the focus was on the low participation of adults in literacy programmes, the study looked into the challenge as to whether the 50 per...

This study is aimed at investigating factors inhibiting good performance in female learners at O-Level Physics examinations. The study also looked at views held by school administrators on the high failure rate and measures they would put in place to improve performance. The study included 10...

Monitoring and evaluation assessments of the IRS programmes reveal an inability to meet set IRS coverage targets. The purpose of this was to determine the factors that influence the low IRS coverage. A cross sectional household study was carried out in Lusaka District’s Mtendere, Kanyama and...

This study examined and compared factors that influenced lack of male interest in the use of family planning between the urban and rural communities of Monze District in the Southern Province of Zambia. It discusses findings from married male respondents and participants of a focus group...

Rapid and accurate diagnosis is fundamental to effective management and control of malaria. In Zambia the Integrated Technical Guidelines (ITG) for Frontline Heath Workers and the National Integrated Management of Child Illnesses (IMCI) framework stipulate how malaria should be managed....

This study examined factors that lead to high incidence of HIV/AIDS infection among women in order to establish determinants that influence women' s protection from contracting HIV/AIDS infection. The exercise was done by investigating the subjects' level of awareness of the existence and...

The study’s main purpose was to investigate the factors that contributed to low reading levels in both Chinyanja and English languages among Grade 5 pupils learning under ROC in selected basic schools in Lusaka District. The study employed qualitative data collection and analysis procedures to...

Background: Family planning is a key component of reproductive health and is one of the effective interventions in reducing maternal and infant mortality. Despite family planning activities having started in the 1960s in Zambia, the contraceptive utilization rate is only 34.2%. One of the reasons...

In Zambia, the literature shows that there is scanty information geared particularly to this group. Most studies on Zambian women merely give a skeletal picture of these women by simply mentioning them. The literature search further indicates that no such studies have been written from a social...

This dissertation discusses fiscal decentralization and service delivery with particular attention to Lusaka City Council (LCC), one of the local authorities in Zambia. Zambia’s local government system encompasses an ideology of fiscal decentralization. In addition, the Local Government Act of...