institutions, corporate institutions, local and international NGOs, parliamentarians and the general public. In this regard, it was agreed that the process of stakeholder engagement commences immediately with the presentation of the revised Draft ZAMEC Bill, the ZAMEC constitution and the Code of Ethics to the Minister of Information and Media for the process to be expedited. Further, the meeting resolved to call for a national media Insaka to be held in October 2021 to broaden the engagement process. The Technical Working Group on Statutory Media-Self Regulation acknowledges and welcomes the positive pronouncements made by President Hakainde Hichilema on media freedom and reforms. It is elating that discussions have resumed with regard to the enactment of the media regulation legislation as promised in the previous regime, with steps taken towards enactment of the said law prior to the dissolution of Parliament. Media regulation has been a need for a long time as raised by several interview participants and also evidenced by the number of censures on professional misconduct by media houses, infringements against the rights of journalists and so on. It is worth noting that journalists in Zambia do not have any formal recognition, save the implicit provision in Article 20 (2) of the Zambian Constitution which states that “Subject to the provisions of this Constitution 18