ORGANISATION BACKGROUND
The Anti-Voter Apathy Project (AVAP) was registered on 26th December 1995 with the Registrar of Societies as a Non-Governmental Organisation actively involved in the promotion of enhanced democracy, respect for human rights, voter and political participation, advocating for transparent and accountable leadership for good governance.
AVAP is a member driven organisation having representation in all district through the friends of AVAP initiative who subscribe to its objectives. AVAP was established to empower citizens to demand for their human rights in the development process and elections and mobilise and engage citizens to register as voters through critical community awareness campaigns to make every voter count.
AVAP was established to promote enhanced democracy, respect for human rights, voter and political participation and advocacy for transparent and accountable leadership at all levels of governance. From inception AVAP has been actively involved in civic education, voter education, democracy education, human rights education and election monitoring.
MISSION
“to contribute to Zambia’s socio-economic, political and democratic development processes through empowerment of citizens with information, skills and knowledge for their effective participation in the electoral process and inclusive governance at all levels.”
AVAP envisions to create an informed citizenry that is able to change the power relations through sustainable advocacy, demand for their human rights and participation to influence policy formulation and electoral law reform process that responds to the rights of the citizens.
AVAP continues to educate citizens on their democratic rights and empower them with skills, knowledge and tools to effectively participate in the elections and decision making process.
VISION
The vision of AVAP is “a developed Zambia through informed, democratic, inclusive and popular citizenry participation in decision making at all levels of governance”.
The motto of AVAP is Vote Enmasse and making every vote count
AIMS
The strategic goal of AVAP is to increase the capacities of citizens and reduce their apathy in democratic and development processes through training and creative dissemination and sharing of information and knowledge at all levels of governance.
AVAP aims to maximize a country wide campaign against voter apathy for improved voter participation, representation, accountability and enhanced voter turn-out.