RCE Lusaka

Date of RCE Acknowledgement:
December, 2012

Description of RCE and Geographic Region:
The Lusaka Centre of Expertise is the first Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development in Zambia. Its formation was necessitated by the desire by various stakeholders within the vicinity of Lusaka to collaborate on issues of common interest relating to Education for Sustainable Development. It has drawn stakeholders from various institutions, including educational, city council, and environmental management. The Greater City of Lusaka face numerous environmental and socio-economic challenges which the stakeholders feel can be better solved jointly and collaboratively. RCE Lusaka was acknowledged on the 21st of December, 2012, and it has remained a very active RCE in the region.

During the 7th African Regional Conference in Lusaka, 2017 (Photo cr: RCE Lusaka)
It successfully hosted the 7th African Regional RCE Conference in August, 2017.
The Lusaka Regional Centre of Expertise is located in the Lusaka Province of the Republic of Zambia.
Lusaka is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Zambia. It is situated at the meeting point of roads leading north to the mining province of the Copperbelt, west to Mongu, east to Chipata and south to Livingstone.

RCE Youth Network, Lusaka 2017 (Photo cr: RCE Lusaka)

Organisation Hosting RCE Secretariat:
University of Zambia – Great East Road Campus

Goals and Objective:
Vision:
Through Education for Sustainable Development, to become a pervasive networking forum where partnerships are simpler, more powerful, more available to all and where local issues become mutually connected to global ones.
Strategic goals:
Establish a network of ESD stakeholders to strengthen learning and collaboration
Foster actions for ESD at community and school levels in the Lusaka region
Conduct and disseminate research on issues related to ESD
Facilitate and participate in commemoration of local and international days to showcase, exchange experiences and knowledge of relevance to ESD
Facilitate exchange of ESD ideas and experiences at various levels of the institutions, local as well as national and international
Mainstream ESD curricula in formal learning institutions and other member organizations
Objectives:
Sharing knowledge, skills and experiences in EE and ESD among the shareholders
Collaboration in the areas of training and research among stakeholders
Work with local communities in promotion of innovations and development of sustainable technologies for poverty alleviation, resource management, in order to overcome existing local challenges
Networking with key stakeholders in the sub-region to link the activities of our RCE with those taking place in the SADC region as well as at the global level
Ensure sustainable development in socio-economic planning processes

Key Partners:
Name of organisation: Zambia Environmental Management Agency
Role: Regulatory body
Contact name: Mercy Zulu
Contact email: mzulu@zema.org.zm