- April 7, 2022
- Posted by: Admin
- Category: ECF-SADC, News Stories, News Stories, Press Release, Press Releases
ECZ Chairperson Hon. Justice Esau E. Chulu Officially opened the ECF-SADC Executive Committee Meeting in Livingstone, Southern Province, Zambia on 7th April, 2022.
The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) is hosting the Electoral Commissions Forum of the Southern African Development Community (ECF-SADC) at the David Livingstone Hotel in Livingstone from 5th to 7th April, 2022.
The event in Livingstone was an Executive Committee meeting of the Forum whose role is to implement the policy decisions of the Annual General Conference.
ECF-SADC is an independent organisation in which each country in the SADC region is represented by its electoral management body. The mandate of ECF-SADC is to strengthen co-operation amongst Electoral Commissions in the SADC region.
ECF-SADC members include 15 Electoral Management Bodies of 14 SADC countries- namely; Angola, Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Seychelles, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, Zanzibar and Zimbabwe.
The Forum has been in place since July 1998 and it has played an important role in ensuring that the management of elections in the SADC countries is improved and in building the capacity of election management bodies to fulfill their roles.
The Electoral Commissions Forum of SADC Countries was launched in Cape Town in July 1998.Zambia is currently the Chair of the Executive Committee of the ECF-SADC and assumed the two-year role in 2021.