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Message From The Permanent Secretary |
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The Gender in Development Division (GIDD) has evolved overtime beginning with a Women's Desk prioe to 1984, then a unit in the Sectoral Planning Department at the Former National Commision for Development Planning (NCDP). The unit was transformed into a section within the department and subsequently elevated to the Women in Development Department (WIDD) in 1991 and was given the status of National Women's machinery to facilitate the advancement of the status of women in Zambia.
 In recognition of the prominence which the Government attaches to gender issues or gender equality, and realizing that WIDD had not accomplished much because of its weak position in terms of authority and resources, the department was upgraded to the Gender in Development Division (GIDD) and placed at cabinet Office, under the office of the President in June, 1996.
Mr. G. Kaunda,Permanent Secretary.
The Division is one of the four professional and technical Divisions of Cabinet Office. It is headed by a Permanent Secretary and has its own budget line in the National Budget.
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Government Vision on gender |
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The vision of the Government through the National Gender Policy is to achieve full participation of women and men in the development process at all levels in order to ensure sustainable development and attainment of equality and equity between the sexes |
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The Objectives of the Division are:-
- To facilitate the mainstreaming of gender into macro and sectoral policies and programmes in order to attain equity and equality in development.
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