ZAMBIA Detailed Findings 1. Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) Category 1: Website http://www.dmmu-ovp.gov.zm/ The DMMU’s website is not up-to-date; it was last updated in 2014. The institution has a Facebook page with over 400 followers, which is not up-to-date either; it was last updated four months ago. The institution has little to no interaction with its audience through the Facebook page. n = 20 Yes No 1. Does this website contain up to date information? Partial Additional Information • 2. Does the website contain the following: a) A description of its powers, as well as data on the organisational 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, programmes? d) Budget and expenditure? The website only has a little information which is outdated. • It only has a tenders section under the Media Centre which has no posts. • The website contains the address and telephone number but has no working hours of the institution. • The website has a response mechanism but no addresses have been provided especially for electronic requests of information. • e) Information about procurement procedures, signed contracts? f) Vacancy and employment procedures? • g) The address, telephone number, and working hours of the institution? h) The contact details of specific public officials? • • i) A mechanism to request and receive a response to electronic messages and requests for information? Total Score: 10/20 CATEGORY 2: REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION The following questions were sent to the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit: 1. His Excellency President Edgar Chagwa Lungu announced that a committee had been set up to assist those that lost their items and money in the unfortunate fire at City Market; is the DMMU working with this Committee? 2. How is your institution assisting those that have been affected? 3. There have been other fire disasters in various parts of the country since the newly instituted Committee is Lusaka-based, is the DMMU able to work with the Committee (as the DMMU has been in existence longer and thereby could give technical know-how)? 4. What are some of the challenges that the DMMU has faced in the last two years and how has it been able to handle them? What is the current human resource capacity of the DMMU and how widespread are your offices? n = 20 102 Yes No Partial 1. Is there an official designated to take and respond to information requests? • 2. Did the institution reply within 21 days? • 3. Did the institution respond to the request for information? • 4. Does the authority publish their procedures for dealing with information requests? • 5. Did the institution provide all of the information requested? • Additional Information