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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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DR CONGO togo
08. Pathway to Self-Reliance for Refugees in Zambia
Lac Moeru (Lake Mweru)
03. Improving Smallholder Access to Quality Seed
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02. Nutrition Sensitive Agri-Food Value Chains
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MALAWI Chipata Mongu
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
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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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VALUE-ADDED VEGETABLES
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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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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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Cover: Foster Simeo, Malela, Northern Province, Zambia. Photo Credit: Ken O’Halloran