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Progressive governments around the world aim at having efficient Public Finance Management in order to efficiently manage resources and maximize on opportunity costs associated with Public Procurement. The Government of Zambia has introduced IFMIS to monitor how ministries, departments and other...

Children with multiple measures of anthropometric failure are at a high risk of morbidity and mortality as a result of malnutrition. Some of the factors that contribute to the high levels of malnutrition which is described in forms of stunting, underweight, overweight and wasting in children 6-23...

Children with multiple measures of anthropometric failure are at a high risk of morbidity and mortality as a result of malnutrition. Some of the factors that contribute to the high levels of malnutrition which is described in forms of stunting, underweight, overweight and wasting in children 6-23...

Nutritional status of under- five children remains a sensitive indicator of Africa‟s health and socio-economic conditions. A few studies acknowledge the importance and the role of nonnutritional factors in determining the nutritional status of under- five children at household level. This study...

Introduction Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) is estimated to occur in (18%) of pregnant women in Africa despite universal supplementation programs being implemented since 2001, as recommended by the World Health Organisation. A lack of data on iron status and maternal factors associated with iron...

This study establishes the asymptotic consistency of the James-Stein shrinkage estimator (JSSE) ˆ!⇤ n of some parameter ✓, which is obtained by shrinking a maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) ˆ✓n. Our shrinking strategy involves creating a subspace to shrink to by partitioning the parameter space...

This qualitative study examined the attitude of non-native cinyanja teachers and parents towards the use of cinyanja as a medium of instruction in Chilanga district. The study was carried out because of the 2013 new language policy in the Zambian education system which advocates for the use of a...

This study proposes automation of the Zambian civil registration process of Birth and National Identity Card by incorporating biometrics, geospatial and encryption. In Zambia, The Ministry of Home Affairs processes civil registration in two ways: urban and rural. Both registrations initiate with...

Issues of food security, post-harvest losses, lack of a national farmer database and proper grain inventory system have plagued the Ministry of Agriculture for years. The lack of requisite tools has made the management of the sector a difficult task. This has seen an increase in the number of...

Although milk contains many nutrients necessary for growth, raw milk may harbor numerous pathogens. The milk pathogens may be shed in harvested milk from an infected animal and may transmit zoonotic diseases. Consumption of raw milk is common in developing countries. However, milk needs to be...