Policies and Plans

This National Adaptation Plan (NAP) is a strategic framework designed for the medium to long term developed by the Government of the Republic of Zambia to address identified risks and vulnerabilities in diverse sectors.

Zambia's National Adaptation Plan (NAP) 2023 outlines medium- to long-term strategies to enhance resilience against climate change impacts across sectors like agriculture, health, water, and infrastructure.

The Seventh National Development Plan (also known as 7NDP) was born out of Zambia's aspiration to be a prosperous middle-income country by 2030. To achieve this aspiration, it is imperative that the country articulates the processes, interventions and

This plan aims to contribute to the protection of Zambia’s land, water and other environmental resources from over-use and drought that they are able to provide the required ecosystem services as well as to mitigate against threats food security threats.

The National Disaster Risk Management Framework seeks to operationalise the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction-2015-2030 which was adopted in Japan in March, 2015 by the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction.

This manual summarises the roles, responsibilities and procedures relating to the management of disasters in general in Zambia. It considers the fact that disasters take place in a local environment and that primary responders are the disaster victims

The 2015 disaster management policy is based on a review of the 2005 policy, necessitated by the National Disaster Management Act No. 13 of 2010, the paradigm shift from disaster management to disaster risk reduction, climate change and decentralization

An act to: (i) establish and provide for the maintenance and operation of a system for the anticipation, preparedness, prevention, coordination, mitigation and management of disaster situations and the organisation of relief and recovery from disasters;