ENVIRONMENT
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
Priorities
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City stakeholders are beginning to appreciate environmental issues in the city. Establishment of the Environmental Council of Zambia has raised profile of environmental issues in the city.
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LCC does not have • adequate capacity to effectively spearhead the tackling of environmental problems.
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Lack of coordination between LCC and ECZ has affected the management of the urban environment. Central government does not provide resources to LCC for environmental management, to supplement donor support.
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Donor support is channelled through NGOs for environmental management in the city.
LCC can • enhance public- private participation in the management of the city’s environment.
Low priority, in terms of resource allocation, of environmental issues among stakeholders in the city.
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Coordination among LCC, ECZ, and the Ministry of Mines can be enhanced.
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Streamlining a policy on government support for environmental planning • and management through a national framework.
Rigid institutional operational structures among stakeholders in the city hinder effective coordination and cooperation in matters of environmental management.
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Coordinated and scaled up urban environmental management in the city.
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Improved government support for urban environmental management.
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Promotion of sustai3nable urban environmental management through community participation and sensitisation on the importance of environmental resources.
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Enhance the enforcement of bylaws on urban environmental management by improving the LCC budgetary allocation to the Department of City Planning.
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Raise the status of environmental education at primary, secondary, and university level.
Reliance on donor support cannot sustain environmental management programmes in the city.
lusaka city profile - environment
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND AWARENESS
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Existence of the Keep Lusaka Clean stakeholder organization.
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Bylaws on environmental management in the city have been formulated by LCC.
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Environmental awareness programmes in the media and schools in the city.
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LCC has no training programmes on environmental management.
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LCC has no specific budget for promoting sound environ• mental management in the city.
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Environmental education is not adequately covered in the national school curriculum. •
There is a need to train staff, councillors, and communities on environmental issues. Environment ManagePrioritise environmental management issues in the city by allocating more resources to the sector. Raise the profile of environmental management both at national and local levels by designing appropriate curriculum in training institutions.
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Apathy among stakeholders towards environmental issues.
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Increasing poverty levels are leading to over-exploitation of environmental resources.
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Inadequate manpower at both the national and local levels in the field of environmental management.