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selfhelpafrica.org 2019 1 Implementing Programme Donor Total Budget Time Frame Programme Area Partner

Irish Aid Local € 8M 2013 and Luwingu Northern Provinces 01 Development District Council, PPU, Programme 2019 HID

Community-Based Irish Aid, Electric Aid € 420,000 2015 Mthilakubili Sustainable , Southern, 02 Seed Enterprises and Agriculture Project , Central, Participatory Crop 2021 SGA in and Northern and Eastern Improvement , Shangila SGA Provinces 2019 Andrew MPuhu, Meheba, Zambia. in Mpika, Chipapa SGA in Kafua, Siavonga SGA in Siavonga and Namalundu SGA in elf Help ’s programme focus in Zambia is on The country programme works primarily through commodity Chinkakata. Also Zambia Agriculture Research two key areas: rural enterprise development and producer groups, seed producer groups, research stations, Institue(ZARI) and Seed ZAMBIA PROGRAMMES ZAMBIA Ssustainable agricultural and rural livelihoods. local NGOs, civil society organisations and local government Control and Certification to reach smallholder farmers. Institue (SCCI) Projects address a selection of integrated issues: sustainable agriculture, food and nutrition security, research also provides support and capacity building Nutrition Sensitive Agri- McGill University € 225,000 2016 McGill University, Luwingu, Northern into and production of improved varieties of seed, rural to local government departments in planning, monitoring, 03 Food Value Chains (in Biodiversity International, Province enterprise development and income generation, and evaluation and training. Zambia and 2019 WorldFish, in Malawi is environmental rehabilitation. a producers association,

malawi SPRODETA, University of Zambia, the research stations, Ministry of zambia ZAMBIA Agriculture in Zambia

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Pathways to self- UNHCR, Irish Aid € 115,000 2017 GRZ ministries Meheba PROJECT KEY 04 reliance for Refugees (MCDSW, MoA, MFL, (), in Zambia:Graduation 2020 MHA), UNHCR Mayukwayukwa Programme () Irish Aid Local Development Programme

Nutrition Sensitive Agri-Food DEM REP Value Chains CONGO Home Grown School WFP € 730,000 2018 None - but liaising , Shibuyunji, Meals with local government Petauke, Luangwa, Community-based Seed 05 Enterprises 2019 entities and schools and Nyimba districts (Central Lusaka Home Grown School Meals and Eastern Provinces)

Pathway to Self-Reliance for Chipata Protecting and Restoring Jersey Overseas Aid € 750,000 2019 University of Worcester, Monze, Namwala and Refugees in Zambia MALAWI 06 the Environment Commission Local government , Southern PRESERVE and Supporting the 2022 Province, Zambia Mongu Emergence of a Sustaining Enterprise Growth in ZAMBIA Resilient and Financial Associations Project Vibrant Lusaka Economy in (PRESERVE)

Extensive Agriculture and Savanna ZIMBABWE Intensive Agriculture Sustaining Irish Aid € 240,000 2019 Northern Province 07 Enterprise Mbala and Luwingu Forest, Rainforest, Swamp Growth in 2022 Financial Associations Project 2 3 01 IRISH AID LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME 02 COMMUNITY-BASED SEED ENTERPRISES

Objective: To improve the livelihoods, Objective: To improve the food, nutrition health status, food and nutrition security and income security of smallholder of over 23,000 poor households. households in . he programme was successfully implemented by roductivity in Zambia is held back by a lack of Self Help Africa from 2013 to the end of February access to quality seed, transport and other T2019, when it closed. Pinfrastructure. Because of this, farmers often The programme achieved its intended objectives and struggle to feed their families throughout the year. impacted positively on its target population. As part of our response to this, Self Help Africa, in Emma Kayela, Nsunda Village, Northern Province, Zambia. collaboration with the Zambia Agriculture Research PROJECT ACHIEVEMENTS: Institute, the Seed Certification and Control Institute, and • Food security: food security improved from below the University of Zambia, is working with Seed Grower 50% at baseline to about 80% post active programme NUTRITION SENSITIVE AGRI-FOOD PATHWAYS TO SELF-RELIANCE Associations (SGA) and their smallholder farmer members 03 VALUE CHAINS 04 FOR REFUGEES IN ZAMBIA

ZAMBIA PROGRAMMES ZAMBIA implementation period. PROGRAMMES ZAMBIA to increase production of early generation indigenous legume seed and to develop a better understanding of how • Resilience: Households moved from an average of Objective: To improve the nutritional Objective: To increase self-reliance the different varieties perform under conservation agriculture 25% in resilience at baseline to about 60% at endline. status of members of farming for 300 refugee households and local practices in the different geographical regions of Zambia. households. host communities in Meheba and • 372 Livelihood Enhancement Groups received Mayukwayukwa settlement areas. The Community-Based Seed Enterprises project is also ver the past two decades, the prevalence of various intervention related trainings. building the capacity of the SGAs themselves, providing stunting has persistently been above 40% in ambia currently hosts around 58,000 refugees and technical assistance on business planning, financial OZambia, which impedes human development, displaced people, the majority of whom reside in the • Infant and Young Child Feeding training given to management and governance. Seed production provides productivity and economic growth. Zcountry’s two officially designated settlements: Meheba 523 care givers from Livelihood Enhancement Groups a profitable business opportunity for farmers with the and Mayukwayukwa. Both settlements are remote with limited (LEGs). Self Help Africa is the Zambian-based implementing partner entrepreneurial drive and capacity to produce at consistent access to infrastructure, and their inhabitants are currently in a research consortium led by McGill University, with sub- quality and SGAs provide essential collective purchasing, reliant on UNHCR and other agencies for subsistence. • HIV, AIDs awareness reaching out to 12, 200 LEG grantees WorldFish Centre and Bioversity International. The aggregation and marketing services to their members. Self Help Africa is leading a pilot project with UNCHR to design members. Nutrition Sensitive Agri-Food Value Chain project’s objective and implement a graduation programme to foster a spirit of is to promote the availability, accessibility and consumption self-reliance in refugees and other vulnerable local families in • Malaria awareness reaching out to 6,484 LEG of diverse, safe and nutritious foods for improved household • 400 farmers (50% women) the host community. SHA staff are working closely with the members. nutrition and health. UNHCR livelihoods team and relevant government ministries.

These objectives will be delivered through linkages formed The graduation approach supports households over an with the private sector, trainings on food quality and nutrition, 18-month period, through providing training on agriculture, and knowledge dissemination through multimedia. setting up savings and credit groups, providing a productive asset chosen by the participant and facilitating links to Through assessments of the opportunities to add value to, potential markets. In addition, each participant is assigned a THE PROJECT IN NUMBERS: and improve the nutrient content of, selected commodities case worker who mentors them throughout the project. throughout the value chain, SHA, partners and project The Pathway to Self-Reliance for Refugees project will work participants will be able to develop contextually appropriate • 17,000 households in Mbala and with 300 vulnerable households from the refugee and host methods of processing these foods in ways that maintain or Luwingu districts benefit from the project communities to increase self-reliance. enhance their nutrition content. • 60% of beneficiaries are women This will reduce dependency on UNHCR hand-outs and The project will collaborate with a variety of Zambian actors, enable these vulnerable households to meet their food • 5,400 members in 120 savings and including the University of Zambia, agro-dealers, government and nutrition requirements, as well as basic social and credit associations extension staff, cooperatives and smallholder farmers, economic needs such as school fees, medical fees and food requirements. • 372 farmer groups as building local capacity and harnessing existing local knowledge are key to the success of the project. • 300 households • 2,400 (960 women, 1,440 men) 4 Deusta Niyokqizigira, Meheba, Zambia. 5 Oilpa, Rosemary Chate’s daughter, Malela, Northern Province, Zambia.

SUSTAINING ENTERPRISE GROWTH IN 06 PRESERVE KAFUE 05 FINANCIAL ASSOCIATIONS PROJECT

Objective: To improve the resilience, Objective: To enhance the capacity of food, income and nutrition security of financial associations to provide improved 3,000 households in the Monze, Namwala services to the Enterprise Groups to enable and Mazabuka . them to operate sustainably through rotecting and Restoring the Environment and improved production and market linkages. Supporting the Emergence of a Resilient and he Irish Aid Local Development Programme (IALDP) PVibrant Economy in Kafue (PRESERVE) is a three- came to an end in February 2019. This programme year project (March 2019- Feburary 2022) to improve the Thad been implemented since October 2013 in resilience, food, income and nutrition security of 3,000 the Northern Province of Zambia in Luwingu and Mbala HOME GROWN SCHOOL MEALS 05 households in the Monze, Namwala and Mazabuka districts. Enterprise development was seen as a key districts of Zambia. component to ensure sustainability after the end of the project and within this component, access to finance and Objective: To build links between schools and local producers, The project will use the Functional Landscape Approach financial inclusion stood out as the most cardinal. strengthen the link between nutrition and agriculture and facilitate the (FLA) to promote the sustainable use of natural resources ZAMBIA PROGRAMMES ZAMBIA PROGRAMMES ZAMBIA development of nutrition-sensitive and inclusive value chains. for diversified livelihoods and increased incomes, whilst This prompted the establishment of six Financial alnutrition remains a serious problem in Zambia, The government’s Seventh National Development Plan protecting and restoring essential eco-systems within the Associations (FAs), three in each district, (Mukulu, with a 2017 Global Hunger Index score of 38.2, the (7ND) recognises that poor nutrition erodes human capital Kafue Sub-Basin. Mamfumba and in Luwingu and Intulo, Omba and Mfood situation in the country is ranked as Alarming. potential and perpetuates the vicious cycle of poverty. Ubunonshi in Mbala) which would serve as village banks to The project builds on Self Help Africa Zambia’s previous offer financial services to the communities. Home Grown School Feeding programmes are identified as experience implementing Strengthening Climate Resilience 40% of Zambian children are affected by stunting – well above a key strategy for enhancing welfare and livelihoods for the in the Kafue Sub-Basin (SCRiKA) in the targeted districts To avoid negating the work that went into establishing the average for African countries with similar national income poor and vulnerable, and for enhancing food security and from 2016 to 2018. Funded by the Government of Zambia these entities, it is therefore necessary that Self Help Africa – and there is a high prevalence of anaemia, with one in two nutrition in order to improve the health of the population. through the African Development Bank (AFDB), SCRiKA continue, to some extent, to facilitate in the mentoring, children and one in three women of reproductive age affected. assisted community groups in 11 districts of Zambia to coaching, and market linkage activities that should see the Malnutrition is closely linked with poverty, and with 60% of the Self Help Africa is implementing activities in six districts of design and implement projects that would enable them to FAs culminating into self-reliant autonomous institutions. population living below the poverty line diets are over-reliant Zambia (Mumbwa, Shibuyunji, Petauke, Luangwa, Sinda, adapt to the long-term consequences of climate change. The Sustaining Enterprise Growth in Financial Associations on staple crops such as maize. and Nyimba) focusing on building community, school and (SEGiFA) project aims to enhance the capacity of financial government capacity and ownership of the programme so SHA has used learning from SCRiKA and feedback from The link between educational attainment and nutrition is well associations to provide improved services to the Enterprise that it can begin the transition towards independence from project beneficiaries to inform the design of PRESERVE documented, with international bodies including the World Groups to enable them to operate sustainably through World Food Programme (WFP) support, while developing an Kafue. Where possible, the project will utilise structures Health Organisation, UNICEF and the World Bank recognising improved production and market linkages. that good health and nutrition are not only essential inputs but evidence-based model for programme delivery that can easily already established by SCRiKA, such as reorientating These services will include financial services (loans, Business also important outcomes of basic, good quality education; be scaled up and out across Zambia. Project Committees into Village Natural Resource Development Services and product financing) as well as market learners must be healthy and well-nourished to gain the Management Committee’s. As required by the Scope of Work, SHA will work closely with services (which include bulking, value addition and facilitating maximum benefit from education, and early childhood care key programme stakeholders at school, district and national The targeted beneficiaries are smallholders and other market linkages). Most of the Accumulated Savings and Credit and primary school programmes which improve learners’ level, it will mobilise communities in the target districts building vulnerable groups that are disproportionately affected by Associations (ASCAs) members are part of the Enterprise health and nutrition can enhance educational outcomes, while their knowledge and skills on nutrition and nutrition-sensitive climate related shocks. Groups therefore these services are, by association, meant for good quality education can lead to better health and nutrition agriculture while raising awareness of the Home Grown School the ASCAs as well. Product development for the FAs will be outcomes for learners, particularly girls. Meals programme. key as they will be able to tailor products to meet the different Governments and donors all over the world have therefore • 3,000 smallholder farmers directly requirements of their clientele. invested in school meals programmes, which both directly SHA will work to align activities with WFP’s country The project, in addition to providing financial services, also improve children’s nutrition but also facilitate access to framework and priorities, with a particular focus on targeted(40% women from female- aims to promote and develop grain marketing/trading by education, as they have been shown to increase enrolment, monitoring and evaluation systems. headed households, 20% will be young the FAs, who will absorb the grain grown by smallholder attendance and completion. people (18-35 years), 40% vulnerable farmers within their catchment areas, benefitting from Linking school meals programmes to local producers has • 200,000 primary schoolchildren from 6 quality seed provided by the Seed Grower Associations. the added benefit of strengthening local food systems and groups (elderly, persons with disabilities, The Enterprise Groups should benefit from the products economies and more broadly supporting poverty reduction. districts, across 435 primary schools households without productive assets) provided by the FAs, which could range from traditional In Zambia, the Ministry of General Education has developed loans to equipment lease or hire. a School Health and Nutrition programme to improve and • 15,000 family members indirectly provide services in schools. targeted • 1,000 households 06 07 ZAMBIA

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Mary Ndlovu, Kalonga Village, , Eastern Province, Zambia, July 2019 Photo credit: Ken O’Halloran, 2015. 08