The Programme for Supporting Zambian Mining Governance in the Nexus of Environment, Human Rights, and Climate Change
QUICK FACTS
Duration: October 2022 – September 2026 (ZAMNEX).
Main implementing organizations: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SwEPA), the Ministry of Green economy and Environment(MGEE), Zambia Environmental Management Agency (ZEMA)
Financing institution: The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency/Embassy of Sweden
Key focus: Strengthened governance of the Zambian mining sector.
The kickoff served as a key opportunity to highlight the potential of working with impact-based warning systems both for the mining industries and communities around, but also for other applications
Sweden has coordinated responses to the TD 15 tailings dam failure under the umbrella of the ZAMNEX programme. These actions have in initial stages focused on information and data gathering
A Focus Group Meeting in ZAMNEX component 2, on Corporate Governance for Zambia’s National CSR Guiding Framework, was held on 10th April 2025, at Radisson Blu Hotel, in Lusaka. This