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16/10/2023

11/10/2023

*PRESS STATEMENT BY THE MEDIA NETWORK ON CHILD RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT (MNCRD) TO COMMEMORATE THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL*
11-10-2023
LUSAKA (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE)
*INVESTMENT IN VULNERABLE GIRLS CAN BE A GAME CHANGER IN OUR QUEST FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT*
MNCRD joins the rest of the world to commemorate the International Day of the Girl under the theme, ‘Invest in girls’ rights: our leadership and wellbeing’.
This theme is timely as it reminds governments across the world that an empowered girl can contribute to the social and economic wellbeing of the country.
A package of interventions should be deliberate if we have to achieve these results. This involves quality education premised on a curriculum that responds to the status of the girls using demographics such as remote-rural, rural, high-densely populated, and one that addresses hindrances such as child marriages and inhibited access to alcohol and drugs.
Through social media, the country has watched with awe the exposure of girls who are supposed to be in class to alcohol and access to places where it is sold.
The package should also include tailor-made life skills and health education that is focused on changing the behaviours and values of the girls with specific input on the importance of education for them to break the poverty cycle. This will delay the girls’ s*x debut and array their interest in illicit activities.
As the Ministry of Education reviews the curriculum, it should equally address an examination-centric education system to ensure that despite yearning to pass examinations, the learners to concentrate more on acquiring knowledge, behaviours, values and ultimately skills.
We call upon local authorities, faith based organizations, traditional authorities, lecturers and teachers, among others, to prioritise the empowerment of girls.
We equally advise the nation to ensure that boys are not left behind to commit heinous crimes as members of gangs as that has affected girls negatively with some of them failing to attend classes for fear of being attacked.

Henry Kabwe
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

11/10/2023

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13/02/2022

World Radio Day

13/02/2022

PRESS STATEMENT TO MARK THE WORLD RADIO DAY COMMEMORATION - 13/02/2022

The Media Network on Child Rights and Development joins the rest of the world in commemorating the World Radio Day under the theme Radio and Trust. Over the years, communities and nations have used radio as a reliable source of information, entertainment and education. Radio has transformed people's lives and welfare in many parts of the world.

Having programmes that empower communities has culminated in informed and empowered people against vices such as diseases and abuses; learning new methods of enterprise and farming; understanding the importance of education and health; and most importantly holding leaders accountable through the electoral process and live call-in shows.

The theme, Radio and Trust, reinforces the need to continuously engage communities and nations as a trusted source of information, entertainment and education. The need to emphasize education has become more important in this era of COVID-19 to disseminate information that can help keep the measures, learn through radio and address various forms of abuses.

As the world grapples with fake news, radio can be a reliable source of credible information. The power of radio has not been stifled by emerging media as the most accessed form of media.

HAPPY WORLD RADIO DAY

Issued by:

Henry Kabwe
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
MEDIA NETWORK ON RIGHTS AND DEVELOPMENT (MNCRD)

24/01/2022

Education is a tool that can be employed to ensure growth and progress, but the access to this tool is deeply unequal. The Covid-19 pandemic heightened this divide. Education suffered a huge gap during the pandemic due to the closure of schools, universities, and other educational institutions and required a shift to the online mode.

Transforming the future requires an urgent rebalancing of our relationships with each other, with nature as well as with technology that permeates our lives, bearing breakthrough opportunities while raising serious concerns for equity, inclusion and democratic participation”, read the UNESCO’s Futures of Education Report .

We need to repair past injustices and orient the digital transformation around inclusion and equity. And we need education to fully contribute to sustainable development – for instance, by integrating environmental education in all curricula and by training teachers in this field, Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO Director General.

We must recognize the importance of education and its role in the life of every child form all walks of life.