Your Ward, Your Voice, Your Data
A new platform enabling citizens to monitor decentralization progress and hold local authorities accountable. By Francis Maingaila Lusaka, Zambia24 - (July 15, 2025) — Transparency International Zambia (TIZ) has launched Local Lens, an online platform designed to empower citizens to monitor the progress of Zambia’s 2023 National Decentralization Policy and hold local authorities accountable. The launch of the portal was accompanied by the release of a pilot assessment conducted in ten districts — Livingstone, Katete, Ndola, Mansa, Choma, Chipata, Petauke, Mongu, Solwezi, and Kasama — which revealed mixed progress in decentralization reforms. According to the assessment, the overall implementation rate stands at 60 percent. Among the three core areas assessed, decentralized governance showed the strongest performance at 66 percent, followed by policy coordination at 58 percent, and fiscal decentralization at 57 percent. While all districts had established Constituency Development Fund (...