Analysis

Political For a long period of time the political situation in the presidential representative democratic republic of  Zambia is stabil. Since 1964 Zambia is independent and introduced a multiparty election system in 1991. Since than five elections were held in a peaceful and democratic way. The current system is comparable to the British parliamentary democracy. The national assembly counts 158…

According to the constitution of 1996 zambia is officially a Christian nation. A majority of 87% of the Zambian people are Christian. A respectively 1% is Muslim or Hindustani. Because of the fact that most of the Zambians are Christians, most of their national holidays are related to Christianity. Nowadays, constructing houses is only done by man. Due to the of the high amount of HIV/Aids…

The Zambian economy is a fast growing economy, especially in the last ten years. The real GDP grows with an annual average of 6,7%. The most important source of national income is the mining industry, especially copper mining in the Copperbelt area. Since the privatization of the copper mines in the 1990’s, the mining industry significantly increased the copper mining output resulting in economic…

Political & Economic institutions The institutions relevant for this project are PPHPZ, the Zambian Government, partners of PPHPZ and the TU Delft. PPHPZ This will be our most important institution during this project. This non-governmental organization has 43 projects sites spread over the country working on the housing problem among the poorest layers of society. One of the core task of PPHPZ…