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Projects being implemented by DAPP under the five programme lines
School WASH and Quality Education Project With funding and technical assistance from USAID and in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, this project is being implemented in all the twelve districts in the Northern Province. It aims to improve the health and education for schoolchildren by providing access to clean water and improving sanitation and hygiene through establishing water points, latrines and hand washing facilities in 800 schools reaching over 240,000 pupils over the implementation period. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------		Sustainable Livelihood Projects for Women and Small-scale Farmers This project is funded by Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) and is being implemented in the mining areas of Nampundwe in Mumbwa District and Chingola District. The project seeks to reduce poverty by improving the health, livelihood, childcare and education for 10,000 families in the target areas. Families are also provided with pass on loans of small livestock and grains as well as small cash loans to engage in income generating activities in order to improve their income and subsequently better their lives. --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Total Control of the Epidemic (TCE) Funded by Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this project is being implemented in Mazabuka and Monze Districts in Southern Province in close cooperation with the Ministry of Health. TCE is a systematic door-to-door HIV/AIDS prevention and care programme which provides HIV/AIDS information as well as counselling, testing and care activities to all individuals in the operation areas through its comprehensive door-to-door approach. It employees local “Field Officers” who each cover an area with 2,000 people. They inform, counsel and test people according to their needs, and refer people for further services such as PMTCT, ART, TB, etc. They mobilize local “Passionates” to take part in the fight against HIV and to assist those infected and affected by the virus. They train support group members, organize TB treatment supporters, carry out networking activities on district and sub-district level.		Child Welfare Programme With funding and technical assistance from the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services, the programme is implemented in 18 districts across Zambia. The programme was set up to contribute to the existing DAPP projects in terms of stability and consolidation in order to reach out to children in need of education, care and personal development. The programme elements are integrated into the DAPP projects including Children’s Town, Child Aid and HOPE Projects. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Children’s Town project Run with support from Firelight Foundation, The Beit Trust, Croc Shoes, American Jewish World Service, Development Aid from People to People in the United Kingdom, Ministry of Community Development and Social Services and the ministry of education. The project runs a vocational training centre that aims at rehabilitating former street youth and providing them skills to enable them to be successfully re-integrated into the community after two years at the project and one-year re-integration programme. The project caters for 80 former street youths and runs a community school with 360 orphans and vulnerable children from the surrounding villages in Malambanyama in Chibombo District.		The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme Funded by WaterAid Zambia, the project is being implemented in Samfya and Monze Districts. It is improving access to sustainable safe water supply, adequate sanitation and hygiene in schools and communities so as to improve the health of families and subsequently contribute to the attainment of water and sanitation MDG target by 2015. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Integrated Support to People Living with HIV and AIDS and the extreme poor in Mongu District With support from Concern Worldwide, this project is working to reduce poverty and improve the socio-economic situation of 3,000 people who are living with HIV and AIDS including 400 orphans and vulnerable children from extreme poor households in the target district. The project trains support groups for people living with HIV and AIDS in positive living, gardening and livestock rearing to secure that those infected and affected by the epidemic lead a healthier life with sufficient food and increased income.	Supporting People Living with HIV and AIDS to Live Healthier and Longer Live This project is implemented in Kaoma and Senanga Districts with funding from Concern Worldwide. It aims to improve livelihood, health and income for 800 people living with HIV and AIDS (400 per district) and their immediate families as well as increasing their access to essential services and reducing the spread of HIV in the operation areas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Farmers’ Club – Community Water Management Improvement Project for Traditional Farmers Funded by African Water Facility through African Development Bank, this project is cofounded and implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives and Christian Enterprise Trust of Zambia (CETZAM). The project is implemented in Mkushi and Kapiri-Mposhi Districts in Central Province and Chingola and Masaiti Districts in Copperbelt Province. The project has established and is building capacity in 100 Farmers’ Clubs reaching 5,000 farmers directly as members to these clubs. The members are trained in improved gardening and irrigation with focus on low-cost irrigation such as rope pumps and treadle pumps, improve horticulture practises, and improved marketing of produce. The farmers receive micro credit loans for irrigation in smaller groups through CETZAM. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------		Community Involvement in Management of Biodiversity Resources and Natural Forest in Lukanga Wetland Area This project is funded by Global Environment Facility through UNDP and Keepers Zambia. It is cofounded by DAPP and CETZAM and implemented in cooperation with the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA), Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives and Christian Enterprise Trust of Zambia (CETZAM). The project works with 1,000 families living in 50 villages in and around the Lukanga swamps. Activities focus on training farmers in improved farming methods and provision of inputs to establish revolving loans of grains and livestock. The project also strengthens wetland committees in charge of protecting and conserving flora and founa in the wetland area. -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Strengthening the Inclusion and Influencing Capacity of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) working with People Living with HIV and Aids (PLWHA) in the Central Province of Zambia This project is funded by European Commission and managed by Practical Action. The project is improving the health and well-being of people living with HIV and AIDS in poor rural communities through strengthening the engagement and institutional development of organizations in the target districts. The project will reach 15 CSOs and 6,000 households for PLWHA (30, 000 people) in Kabwe, Mkushi and Kapiri-Mposhi Districts.	Farmers’ Club – Improved Food Security, Income and Gender Mainstreaming in Kalomo and Choma Districts The project is being run in Choma and Kalomo Districts with funding from Stichting Humana Holland. The project is cofounded by DAPP and CETZAM and implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives and CETZAM. It works in the former Child Aid project area in Kalomo and Choma and builds on the structures established and the knowledge provided to the farmers previously – including management of revolving loans of livestock and grains provided to village actions groups in the past. The project strengthens agricultural activities and in cooperation with CETZAM, it provides agri-investment loans so that the target beneficiaries can engage in agricultural activities including livestock rearing.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strengthening the Scaling up and Impact of Innovative food Security Approaches for People Living With HIV (PLWHIV) in Zambia This is an HIV/AIDS-related project being funded by European Commission, and managed by Practical Action. It improves food security and livelihood resilience of 3,000 beneficiaries who are organised in 150 support groups for PLWHIV in Serenje and Mkushi Districts in the Central Province of Zambia by increasing their access to nutritious foods and essential services.

Projects being implemented by DAPP under the five programme lines

School WASH and Quality Education Project

With funding and technical assistance from USAID and in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, this project is being implemented in all the twelve districts in the Northern Province. It aims to improve the health and education for schoolchildren by providing access to clean water and improving sanitation and hygiene through establishing water points, latrines and hand washing facilities in 800 schools reaching over 240,000 pupils over the implementation period.

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Sustainable Livelihood Projects for Women and Small-scale Farmers

This project is funded by Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) and is being implemented in the mining areas of Nampundwe in Mumbwa District and Chingola District. The project seeks to reduce poverty by improving the health, livelihood, childcare and education for 10,000 families in the target areas. Families are also provided with pass on loans of small livestock and grains as well as small cash loans to engage in income generating activities in order to improve their income and subsequently better their lives.

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Total Control of the Epidemic (TCE)

Funded by Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this project is being implemented in Mazabuka and Monze Districts in Southern Province in close cooperation with the Ministry of Health. TCE is a systematic door-to-door HIV/AIDS prevention and care programme which provides HIV/AIDS information as well as counselling, testing and care activities to all individuals in the operation areas through its comprehensive door-to-door approach. It employees local “Field Officers” who each cover an area with 2,000 people. They inform, counsel and test people according to their needs, and refer people for further services such as PMTCT, ART, TB, etc. They mobilize local “Passionates” to take part in the fight against HIV and to assist those infected and affected by the virus. They train support group members, organize TB treatment supporters, carry out networking activities on district and sub-district level.

Child Welfare Programme

With funding and technical assistance from the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services, the programme is implemented in 18 districts across Zambia. The programme was set up to contribute to the existing DAPP projects in terms of stability and consolidation in order to reach out to children in need of education, care and personal development. The programme elements are integrated into the DAPP projects including Children’s Town, Child Aid and HOPE Projects.

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Children’s Town project

Run with support from Firelight Foundation, The Beit Trust, Croc Shoes, American Jewish World Service, Development Aid from People to People in the United Kingdom, Ministry of Community Development and Social Services and the ministry of education. The project runs a vocational training centre that aims at rehabilitating former street youth and providing them skills to enable them to be successfully re-integrated into the community after two years at the project and one-year re-integration programme. The project caters for 80 former street youths and runs a community school with 360 orphans and vulnerable children from the surrounding villages in Malambanyama in Chibombo District.

The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme

Funded by WaterAid Zambia, the project is being implemented in Samfya and Monze Districts. It is improving access to sustainable safe water supply, adequate sanitation and hygiene in schools and communities so as to improve the health of families and subsequently contribute to the attainment of water and sanitation MDG target by 2015.

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Integrated Support to People Living with HIV and AIDS and the extreme poor in Mongu District

With support from Concern Worldwide, this project is working to reduce poverty and improve the socio-economic situation of 3,000 people who are living with HIV and AIDS including 400 orphans and vulnerable children from extreme poor households in the target district. The project trains support groups for people living with HIV and AIDS in positive living, gardening and livestock rearing to secure that those infected and affected by the epidemic lead a healthier life with sufficient food and increased income.

Supporting People Living with HIV and AIDS to Live Healthier and Longer Live

This project is implemented in Kaoma and Senanga Districts with funding from Concern Worldwide. It aims to improve livelihood, health and income for 800 people living with HIV and AIDS (400 per district) and their immediate families as well as increasing their access to essential services and reducing the spread of HIV in the operation areas.

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Farmers’ Club – Community Water Management Improvement Project for Traditional Farmers

Funded by African Water Facility through African Development Bank, this project is cofounded and implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives and Christian Enterprise Trust of Zambia (CETZAM). The project is implemented in Mkushi and Kapiri-Mposhi Districts in Central Province and Chingola and Masaiti Districts in Copperbelt Province. The project has established and is building capacity in 100 Farmers’ Clubs reaching 5,000 farmers directly as members to these clubs. The members are trained in improved gardening and irrigation with focus on low-cost irrigation such as rope pumps and treadle pumps, improve horticulture practises, and improved marketing of produce. The farmers receive micro credit loans for irrigation in smaller groups through CETZAM.

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Community Involvement in Management of Biodiversity Resources and Natural Forest in Lukanga Wetland Area

This project is funded by Global Environment Facility through UNDP and Keepers Zambia. It is cofounded by DAPP and CETZAM and implemented in cooperation with the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA), Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives and Christian Enterprise Trust of Zambia (CETZAM). The project works with 1,000 families living in 50 villages in and around the Lukanga swamps. Activities focus on training farmers in improved farming methods and provision of inputs to establish revolving loans of grains and livestock. The project also strengthens wetland committees in charge of protecting and conserving flora and founa in the wetland area.

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Strengthening the Inclusion and Influencing Capacity of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) working with People Living with HIV and Aids (PLWHA) in the Central Province of Zambia

This project is funded by European Commission and managed by Practical Action. The project is improving the health and well-being of people living with HIV and AIDS in poor rural communities through strengthening the engagement and institutional development of organizations in the target districts. The project will reach 15 CSOs and 6,000 households for PLWHA (30, 000 people) in Kabwe, Mkushi and Kapiri-Mposhi Districts.

Farmers’ Club – Improved Food Security, Income and Gender Mainstreaming in Kalomo and Choma Districts

The project is being run in Choma and Kalomo Districts with funding from Stichting Humana Holland. The project is cofounded by DAPP and CETZAM and implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives and CETZAM. It works in the former Child Aid project area in Kalomo and Choma and builds on the structures established and the knowledge provided to the farmers previously – including management of revolving loans of livestock and grains provided to village actions groups in the past. The project strengthens agricultural activities and in cooperation with CETZAM, it provides agri-investment loans so that the target beneficiaries can engage in agricultural activities including livestock rearing.

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Strengthening the Scaling up and Impact of Innovative food Security Approaches for People Living With HIV (PLWHIV) in Zambia

This is an HIV/AIDS-related project being funded by European Commission, and managed by Practical Action. It improves food security and livelihood resilience of 3,000 beneficiaries who are organised in 150 support groups for PLWHIV in Serenje and Mkushi Districts in the Central Province of Zambia by increasing their access to nutritious foods and essential services.

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