ZAMBIA 3. Ministry of Health Category 1 - WEBSITE http://www.moh.gov.zm/ n = 20 Yes 1. Does this website contain up to date information? No Partial • Additional Information Very well updated. Provides information on disease outbreaks, health campaigns and projects being undertaken 2. Does the website contain: a) A description of its powers as well as data on the organizational structure, the functions, and the responsibilities of the administration? • b) A list of laws, acts etc. issued within the scope of its powers? • c) Reports, policies, programs? • • d) Budget and expenditure? e) Information about procurement procedures, signed contracts? • • f) Vacancies and employment procedures? g) The name, the address, the telephone number and the working hours of the respective institution? • h) The contact details of public officials? • i) A mechanism to request and receive a response to electronic • messages and requests for information? Total Score: 16/20 Category 2- Requests for Information Part 1: Requests for written information MOH: The following Information Request was sent to MOH I write to request for information on the stocks of ARVs in the country following rumours of shortages. I will be grateful if this information was provided to me on the address provided above. My number is 0977 261361 while my email address is janechirwa79@yahoo.com. n = 18* Yes No Additional Information 1. Is there an official designated to take and respond to information requests? (Please state title of officials in ‘additional information’) • Spokesperson- Director technical support services 2. Did the institution reply within 21 days? (If less than 7 please state in ‘additional information’) • A verbal response was received on 30 May 2013 through a telephone call from MOH Deputy Director of Pharmaceuticals Services, Mr Mbewe Yotham Chikuta, to respond to all the questions posed by the researcher 3. Did the Institution request for information? • 4. Does the authority publish its procedures for dealing with information requests? • 5. Did the institution provide all of the information requested? (If partially please mark ‘No’, indicate in ‘Additional Information’ how much of the information requested was supplied) • 6. Did the institution provide written reasons for the refusal of information? (If information was not refused, please contact the institution to find out what the policy is in this regard –if the institution supplies written reasons for refusal mark ‘Yes’) • • 7. Did the authority provide information without questioning the aims and motivations of the applicant? 8. Did the institution acknowledge your request for information within 7 days? • 9. Was the information received clear and understandable? • The official wanted to know which institution the researcher was from On 30 May 2013 the institution called Total Score: 16/18 * The total number of questions is 9, the maximum score is therefore 18. 101