The Zambian Government has set out an ambitious budget amidst the 2023-2024 drought season, the worse the country has seen in the last decade. While the 2025 budget holds promise for engendering, in certain parts of the key social sectors such as education, health, agriculture, access to credit for SMES & MSES, and others, there remain glaring realities of women exclusion within some of these sectors as the brief will highlight.