Swaziland

ZAMBIA

SUMMARY OF KEY FINDINGS
Category 1: Website analysis
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All institutions, except for the National Housing
Authority, whose website was under maintenance,
have working websites.
All the institutions have Facebook pages although
most public bodies do not update their content
regularly and have little to no interaction with their
audience.
Budgets and expenditures were unavailable on all
of the websites analysed.
Most of the websites did not indicateworking
hours.

Category 2: Requests for information
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Of the eight selected institutions, only the Ministry
of Transport and Communications provided the
requested information.
The Ministry of Tourism and Arts acknowledged
receipt of the request for information and
scheduled a meeting with the researcher. When
the researcher arrived for the meeting, the person
assigned to attend to her had gone to another
meeting. Even after several follow-up attempts,
she was told that the Ministry would get back to
her—which has yet to happen.
Generally, few institutions have a designated person
to receive and respond to requests for information;
usually all queries have to be addressed to the
Permanent Secretary, who then decides upon the
response to the specific request for information.
All organisations acknowledged receipt of the
request and promised to get back to the researcher.
The National Housing Authority asked the
researcher to resend the request for information
and address it to the Chief Executive Officer.

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