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Zambia Agency for Persons with Disabilities

The Board

Governing body – The Board

As prescribed in the Persons with Disabilities Act, the Board is made up of 18 members. The current Board consists of eight representatives of whom four are women, of the following categories of disabilities: mental disability; visual impairment; physical disability and hearing impairment. It also then has a representative from the Federation of Employers, representatives from the following ministries, the Ministry responsible for works and buildings, Education Science and Technology, Community Development and Social Welfare, Finance, Broadcasting services, Labour, Health, a representative from the Attorney General’s office and a representative from a youth disability organisation.

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FRANKSON MUSUKWA – DIRECTOR GENERAL
TWAAMBO HATWIKO - DIRECTOR FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION
BORNFACE TUMBA - INSPECTOR
INGER MUTENEKWA - DIRECTOR PLANNING & PROGRAMMES
AGATHA BANDA - DIRECTOR REHABILITATION & RESEARCH

ZAPD HEAD OFFICE MANAGEMENT AND STAFF

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SENIOR MANAGEMENT
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MANAGEMENT
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STAFF
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STAFF

Functions of ZAPD

  1. Plan, promote and administer services for Persons with Disabilities;
  2.  Develop and implement measures to achieve equal opportunities for Persons with Disabilities by ensuring, to the maximum extent possible, that they obtain education and employment, participate fully in sporting, recreation and cultural activities and are afforded full access to community and social services;
  3. Facilitate and coordinate habilitation, rehabilitation, training and welfare services for Persons with Disabilities;
  4. Operate schemes and projects for self-employment or regular or sheltered employment for Person with Disabilities;
  5. Promote research into all aspects of disability;
  6. Promote public awareness in all aspects of disability;
  7. Cooperate with State institutions and other organisations in the provision of preventive, educational, training, employment, rehabilitation and habilitation services and other welfare services for Persons with Disabilities;
  8. Recommend to any State organ or institution any measures to prevent discrimination against Persons with Disabilities;
  9. In consultation with relevant State institutions, organisations of Persons with Disabilities and other civil society organisations, take appropriate measures to eliminate discrimination on the basis of disability by any person, organisation or private enterprise;
  10. Make representations on behalf of any Person with Disability before any State organ or institution and provide or procure legal assistance for any Person with Disability, if the matter relates to the rights of, or the interaction of, Persons with Disabilities;
  11.  Register Persons with Disabilities, organisations of, and for, Persons with Disabilities and institutions rendering services to Persons with Disabilities; promote, directly or indirectly, the development of human resources in the prevention of disabilities and in the provision of habilitation, rehabilitation, education and training services and the general welfare of Persons with Disabilities;
  12. Advise the Minister on matters relating to the social and economic development and the general welfare of Persons with Disabilities;
  13. Monitor and evaluate the provision of services to Persons with Disabilities and the implementation of this Act and any policy or national strategy on disability;
  14.  Identify provisions in any law that hinder the implementation of this Act, and any policy and national strategy on disability and recommend necessary reforms to the Government;
  15. Advise relevant State organs and institutions on the provision of equal opportunities, empowerment programmes and facilities to Persons with Disabilities; and
  16.  Do all such things as are incidental to, or conducive to, the attainment of the functions of the Agency. (2) The Agency shall keep and maintain a register of Persons with Disabilities and a separate register of organisations of, and for, Persons with Disabilities. (3) The Agency may conduct inquiries into any matter relating to the welfare, habilitation and rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities. (4)
  17.  Promote research and development of universally designed goods, services, equipment and facilities with minimum possible adaptation and the least cost to meet the specific needs and use of Persons with Disabilities, and promote universal design in the development of standards and guidelines;
  18.  Maintain a Disability Management Information System for Persons with Disabilities;
  19. Undertake and promote research and development of, and promote the availability and use of, new technologies, including information and communications technologies, mobility aids, devices and assistive technologies, suitable for Persons with Disabilities, giving priority to technologies at an affordable cost; and
  20.  In collaboration with the formerly Central Statistical Office now Zambia Statistics Agency, keep and maintain statistical records relating to incidences and causes of disabilities to be used for the planning, promotion, administration, monitoring, and evaluation of services for Persons with Disabilities.