Fri, 23 Jun 2017 11:17:20 +0000 By SANDRA MACHIMA ZAMBIA has scaled social programmes that are meant to alleviate the suffering of persons with disabilities who are often discriminated and marginalized, Minister of Community Development and Social Services Emerine Kabanshi has said. Ms Kabanshi informed the United Nations that persons with disabilities were the key target to the country’s social cash transfer programme which had been doubled to K500 million from K250 million in the last one year. She said the development of the Disability Management Information System was conducted with the support from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) which she said had strengthened data collection capacity and analysis for the country. The minister explained that the Government had decentralized the certification and registration process of persons with disabilities to the provincial level as well as some selected districts across the country. According to first secretary for the Press in New York, Wallen Simwaka, Ms […]
