BPW International

BPW Lusaka, Zambia, in collaboration with the Young BPW Zambia, held a colourful year-end luncheon on Sunday  December 18,  2011 under the theme ‘Celebrating Women Who Rock With Brains’ to honour the achievements, awards and successes that women had attained in various endeavours, particularly in 2011.   
The initiative to host the luncheon was based on the need to recognise and celebrate the academic achievement of Dr. Emily Sikazwe, a Trustee of BPW Zambia, on being conferred with an honorary degree in the Doctors of Laws honoris causa by St Francis Xavier University, Canada for her work in the area of gender, gender equality and human rights.   
BPW Zambia seized the occasion to celebrate to honour women that have made a contribution to the Zambian society, and to celebrate the academic achievements of young women in higher institutions of learning.  Dr. Emily Sikazwe and thirteen other women  were honoured for their successes in various fields of endeavour
For BPW Zambia, the event also marked the culmination of an important project that it undertook during the last quarter of 2011 on behalf of Africa Women’s Development & Communication Network (FEMNET) to facilitate lobby and advocacy activities on a project titled ‘Promoting African Women’s Economic Empowerment through Gender – Responsive Trade Agreements’ undertaken in five countries namely  Egypt, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia.