History of ZCEA

The Bust of ZCEA Founder LUCY BANDA SICHONE erected at ZCEA offices

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Zambia Civic Education Association was formed in September 1993. It was formed by three lawyers, namely Lucy Banda Sichone, Christine Kunda and Elias Chipimo Jr. From the beginning Christine and Elias took an advisory role and Lucy took the Executive role and she was the Executive Director of the organisation until her untimely death on August 1998. After Lucy’s demise Mrs. Astrida Kapita became E. D. After her came Ms. Betty Majula Mungomba, then Mrs. Ada Lopa and currently Ms. Judith Mulenga. At the time of Lucy’s death, ZCEA used to rent its offices where Tokyo Laundry is, number 1 Butwa Court on Great East Road Northmead side. Then it moved to rent offices at 21A Chaoli Road Rhodespark. In 2000 the Norwegian Embassy bought the property on Plot 2/1836 Azikiwe Crescent, off Manchinchi Road in Northmead for ZCEA.Readmore>

ZCEA’s core values:

• Child focus – Unwavering commitment to meeting children’s wellbeing based on principles of children’s right.
• Non profit, non partisan
• Building alliances – Working with and respecting the contributions of other like-minded organisations and individuals.
• Reflection learning – Encouraging conscious learning from experience in order to improve our future practice.
• Integrity – Commitment to maintaining the highest levels of ethics, fairness and transparency in all our interactions.
• Innovation and creativity – Encouraging the development of new ideas and recognising positive results.
• Accountability – Being accountable to the children, their parents, teachers, communities, our cooperating partners and the government
• Transparency and openness
• Respect for divergent views
• Non discrimination – All rights all children regardless of any standard of measurement.
• The universality, inherence, inalienability, interdependence, inter relatedness and indivisibility of human rights – All rights should be enjoyed in totality
• Active participation – by all concerned especially the target groups.

ZCEA ‘s Strategic Direction

ZCEA’s main strategic directions are in line with the child rights programming strategies of:

1. Practical action to directly address violations of children’s rights;
2. Strengthening Policies, legislative, political and administrative mechanisms or structures;
3. Building constituencies of support;

ZCEA programme areas are:

• Child participation;
• Child Protection; and
• Organisational development 

Main Intervention Strategies

1. Maximise the scale and sustainability of impact within the limited resource;
2. Address the root causes and the broad issues of children’s rights violations;
3. Ensure positive changes for children;
4. Emphasise accountability from duty bearers;
5. Support duty bearers by increasing society’s capacity to support children;
6. Build partnerships and alliances; and
7. Emphasise access to information and knowledge

Secretariat Volunteer Paralegals Board of Directors Board of Trustees Organogram

ZCEA Operational Area Map