Zambia Country Profile (April 2017)

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Foster Simeo, Malela Village, Northern Province, 2015.

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elf Help Africa’s programme focus in Zambia is on

The country programme works primarily through commodity

two key areas: Rural Enterprise Development and

producer groups, seed producer groups, research stations,

Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Livelihoods.

local NGOs, civil society organisations and local government to reach smallholder farmers.

Projects address a selection of integrated issues: sustainable agriculture, food and nutrition security, research into and

SHA also provides support and capacity building to local

production of improved varieties of seed, rural enterprise

government departments in planning, monitoring, evaluation

development and income generation, and environmental

and training.

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01. Irish Aid Local Development Programme

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08. Pathway to Self-Reliance for Refugees in Zambia

Lac Moeru (Lake Mweru)

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02. Nutrition Sensitive Agri-Food Value Chains

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04. Kaoma Farm Development Project

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06. Value-Added Vegetables

Lusaka 07. Elite II

ZIMBABWE 05. Strengthening Climate Resilience in the Kafue Sub-Basin

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Total Budget

Time Frame

Implementing Partner

Programme Area

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Irish Aid Local Development Programme

Irish Aid

€9,350,000

2013 ­ 2017

Provincial Planning Unit; Mbala Council; Luwingu Council; Households in Distress

Mbala and Luwingu districts, Northern Province

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Nutrition Sensitive AgriFood Value Chains

IFAD

€ 213,784

2016

McGill University; World Fish; Bioversity International

Luwingu district, Northern Province

Six seed grower associations

Mpika, Lundazi

Kaoma Cheshire Community Care Centre

Kaoma district, Western Province

OPAD, SASS, SRDA

Southern, Central and Lusaka Provinces

Chipata, Eastern Province

2017

Community Orientated Development Programme

2017

Heifer International

Chipata, Eastern Province

SHA

Kalumbila and Kaoma districts

2019

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Improving Smallholder Access to Quality Seed

Irish Aid

€ 324,713

2015 2021

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Kaoma Farm Development Project

GSHA

Strengthening Climate Resilience in the Kafue Sub-Basin

AfDB via Ministry of National Planning & Development

€377,943

Value Added Vegetables

Renewable Energy Forum

€30,468

€250,000

2015

ZAMBIA PROGRAMMES

Donor

Programme

2017

Enhanced Livelihood Livestock, Trade, Enterprise II (Elite II)

World Bank

Pathways to selfreliance for Refugees in Zambia

UNHCR

2016 2017

€200,000

2016

2018

€507,862

2017 2020

Ignatius Mulenga,, Malela Village, Nothern Province, 2016.

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ZAMBIA PROGRAMMES

Showthem Sikombe and his wife Elizabeth, Nsunda, Northern Province, 2015.

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IRISH AID LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

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NUTRITION SENSITIVE AGRI-FOOD VALUE CHAINS IN MALAWI AND ZAMBIA

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The programme aims to increase market-oriented sustainable

the availability, accessibility and consumption of diverse, safe

agriculture production and productivity; improve the nutrition

nutritious foods for improved household nutrition and health.

rish Aid Local Development Programme (IALDP) is a fiveyear programme targeting 17,000 households across two districts of Northern Zambia.

elf Help Africa is the Zambian-based implementing partner in a research consortium led by McGill University with sub-grantees World Fish Centre and

Bioversity International. The project’s objective is to promote

and health status of vulnerable households; and build the capacity of district authorities to achieve improved planning

Through assessing and the opportunities to add value to

and service delivery for local communities. IALDP is enabling

and improve the nutrient content of selected commodities

farmers to increase production and marketing of poultry,

throughout the value chain, SHA, partners and project

goats, fish and a variety of crops. Crops with higher nutrient

participants will be able to develop contextually appropriate

value, such as beans, groundnuts and vegetables are

methods of processing these foods in ways that maintain or

promoted.

enhance their nutrition content.

IALDP has also mobilised over 2,000 community volunteers

The project will collaborate with a variety of Zambian actors,

who educate and support mothers and care givers on

including the University of Zambia, agro-dealers, government

a range of issues, including good infant and young child

extension staff, cooperatives and smallholder farmers

feeding practices, HIV and AIDS, malaria prevention and

as building local capacity and harnessing existing local

good practices in nutrition, water and sanitation. and is also

knowledge are key to the success of the project.

establishing Accumulated Savings and Credit Associations.

The programme is building the capacity of Mbala and Luwingu District Authorities to plan and implement effective service delivery to the population and to identify and implement community-initiated projects.

Total direct beneficiaries: 17,000 4

Total direct beneficiaries: 2,400

ZAMBIA PROGRAMMES

Juliet Mwela, Malela Village, Northern Province, 2016.

IMPROVING SMALLHOLDER ACCESS TO QUALITY SEED

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KAOMA FARM DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

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impact on people’s lives, and farmers often struggle to feed

KCCC largely self-sufficient in food production and less reliant

their families throughout the year.

on external funding.

Use of early generation seed, including indigenous landraces,

SHA is providing technical assistance to management

and conservation agriculture can improve crop yields. Using

on best practice in crop and livestock production,

participatory, farm-based research, SHA is working with

seed multiplication and marketing of the farm produce.

Seed Grower Associations and their smallholder farmer

Conservation agriculture techniques are also being

membership to test how various types of indigenous legumes

introduced so that crops are more resilient to the increasingly

perform under conservation agriculture practices in the

irregular weather patterns in the area.

espite Zambia’s favourable climate and vast areas of productive land, productivity is held back by a lack of access to quality seed, transport and other

infrastructure. This low level of productivity has a significant

aoma Cheshire Community Care Centre (KCCC) cares for orphans who have lost one or both parents because of AIDS. The centre owns a large piece

of farmland which if well utilised has potential to make the

different geographical regions of Zambia. Farmers are also testing the impact of growing legumes with cereal crops such

The farm has huge potential to be a supplier of value-added

as maize, on improving soil fertility and reducing weeds.

products such as sunflower oil, peanut butter and earlygeneration seed to surrounding farming households, local

Seed Grower Associations are key players in the Zambian

markets and beyond.

seed multiplication system, and SHA is working with six SGAs to develop their organisational functioning, business operations and positioning within groundnut, bean and other legume seed value chains.

SHA’s seed research has contributed to national level thinking and decision-making on landraces in Zambia. Over the next five years,this research will allow to further share learning and influence seed sector policy to benefit smallholder farmers.

Total direct beneficiaries: 1,980

Total direct beneficiaries: 90 5

ZAMBIA PROGRAMMES

Emma Kayela, Nsunda Village, Northern Province.

STRENGTHENING CLIMATE RESILIENCE IN THE KAFUE SUD BASIN

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climate change. As a Climate Risk and Adaption Facilitator

methods: soaking vegetables in salt solutions to maintain their

(CRAF), SHA is assisting these communities who are in

colour and then drying them in the sun.

trengthening Climate Resilience in the Kafue SubBasin (SCRiKA) is a one year pilot project whose objective is to help rural farming communities adapt

to current climate variability and long-term consequences of

n many parts of Zambia there is an abundant supply of fruit and leafy vegetables in the rainy season, however, preserving this supply in the months post-harvest is a real

challenge. Farmers typically dry the vegetables using traditional

highly vulnerable areas to identify and address the impacts of climate change in their local development plans and

This process is unsatisfactory for many reasons – capacity is

access funding for community adaptation projects.

very limited, particularly at peak harvest time, and drying fruit and vegetables in the sun over days exposes these foods to

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Working with local government and partners, Organisation

contamination by dirt, insects and other pests. Vegetables

for Promotion of Active Development (OPAD), Sibanyati

dried in direct sunlight also have a reduced micro-nutrient

Agriculture Support Services (SASS) and Sustainable

content compared to those dried using solar dryers. These

Rural Development Agency (SRDA), SHA is supporting

driers have the potential to greatly increase production

communities to contribute to district climate change

volumes available for home consumption and sale, and to

adaption plans, so that their concerns and needs are

ensure consumers are gaining the maximum nutritional benefit

addressed.

from the products.

Communities are also receiving advice and financial support

Almost 50 producer groups near Chipata, Eastern Province,

to design, implement and manage community projects

have been producing 1.2 tonnes of dried vegetables each

that will enable them to adapt to the changing climate

per year using traditional methods. Through our partner

conditions. This includes drilling boreholes, developing skills

Community Oriented Development Project (CODEP), we

in climate-smart agriculture methods, and diversifiying from

have identified the top 10 groups (20 farmers per group, the

crop production into small livestock farming. The project

majority of whom are women), to assist them to kick-start

will also create better access to early warning weather

solar drying businesses. Each group has the use of a drier,

information and improve public awareness of climate

using a usage-fee model, thus enabling the members to vastly

adaption strategies.

improve the quality and quantity of vegetables produced.

Total direct beneficiaries: 26,174

Total direct beneficiaries: 200

ENHANCED LIVESTOCK TRADE AND ENTERPRISE II

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PATHWAYS TO SELF-RELIANCE FOR REFUGEES IN ZAMBIA

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with Heifer International, has been working with three District

are now being offered a Local Integration Programme by the

Livestock Associations (DLAs) and goat farmers to improve

Government of Zambia in collaboration with United Nations

productivity and strengthen their position within the goat value

High Commission for Refugees (UNCHR). Self Help Africa

chain, through improving sector coordination, formalization

is leading a pilot project with UNCHR to design, implement

of processes, and developing market information systems.

a graduation programme to instil a spirit of self-reliance

In 2016, all three DLAs progressed to formal registration as

for refugees and other vulnerable local families in the host

cooperatives, counting 2,883 members.

community. SHA staff are working closely with the UNHCR

mallholder farmers in Zambia’s Eastern Province are in a better position to profit from small livestock production thanks to the ELITE II project, which

entered its second phase in 2017. Self Help Africa, together

ZAMBIA PROGRAMMES

Ignatius Simeo, Northern Province

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 he settlements in Meheba, North-Western Province and Mayukwayukwa, Western Province, are home to approximately 37,000 refugees from Angola, Rwanda,

the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Somalia. Some

Livelihoods team and relevant government ministries.

This second phase of the ELITE II project further develops this work in Chipata, Katete and Chadiza districts by

The graduation approach supports households over

building the capacity of the DLAs to coordinate, provide

18 months through assigning a plot of land, training in

training opportunities, links to potential buyers and a

agriculture, setting up savings and credit groups, counselling

collective voice for their membership. Similar structures

for behaviour change, a productive asset grant and

will be built in Katete and Chadiza districts in collaboration

developing producer groups linked to markets.

with local authorities. At community level, ELITE II provides organisational and technical training to new and existing

The project will work with 300 vulnerable households from

Livestock Producer Groups (over 100 in total) and

the refugee and host communities to increase self-reliance.

opportunities for learning exchanges between groups.

This will reduce dependency on UNHCR hand-outs and

Linking goat farmers to financial services such as village

enable these vulnerable households to meet their food

saving and loan schemes and micro-finance institutions is

and nutrition requirements, as well as basic social and

another key component of the project, to enable access to

economic needs such as school fees, medical fees and

working capital and investment in inputs.

food requirements throughout the year.

Total direct beneficiaries: 3,000

Total direct beneficiaries: 300

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APRIL 2017

Cover: Foster Simeo, Malela, Northern Province, Zambia.

Photo Credit: Ken O’Halloran