Agriculture and Climate Change

Small holder farmers are integral to solving the world’s environmental and social crisis, a vital driving force towards environmentally sustainable and socially fair agriculture systems. When conditions allow for them to earn a living, they stay on the land, and they protect it. The land is the foundation for their livelihoods and their culture.

 

Alternative to Charcoal, A2C
The Alternative to Charcoal, A2C project aims to mitigate the negative impact of reduced charcoal consumption in urban areas on rural households that rely on charcoal for income. We are working with over 9,000 community members, including over 600 charcoal producers organised in Farmers’ Clubs. We are promoting agricultural value chains as an...
Smallholders Farmers' Support Project
The Smallholder Farmer Support Programme brings rural farmers together in Farmers’ Clubs for them to improve their agricultural production and create resilience against the effects of climate change in regions where insufficient rainfall is a recurring issue. Working with over 10,000 farmers through established Farmers' Clubs across these areas,...
Young Farmers Clubs
The Young Farmers’ Clubs is a DAPP initiative that started in 2016 to target young people and motivate them to venture into agriculture to become self-reliant. With the slogan: “Proud to be rural,” the model is designed to spark young peoples’ interest and passion in agriculture through bringing them together in peer groups to learn together, share...
Farm to Market Alliance (FtMA)
Smallholder farmers are potential engines for economic growth – they are key to building sustainable food systems, advancing food security and achieving Zero Hunger. FtMA has adopted a demand-led approach that puts empowerment of farmers at the heart of its work. This is achieved by building a network of self-sustaining Farmer Service Centre’s (FSCs)...
Integrated Nutrition & Smallholder Farmer Support Project (Completed)
DAPP Zambia implemented the Integrated Nutrition and Smallholder Farmer Support project aimed at reducing malnutrition, stunted growth and to increase food security as well as improve resilience against the effects of climate change between 2019 and 2022. The project integrated agriculture and nutrition activities such as promoting diversified...

Health and Fight against HIV/AIDS

Our health project builds on the active participation of the people themselves in their communities. This includes people taking charge over their own health and it involves thousands of volunteers providing services in their communities.

 

Total Control of the Epidemic (TCE)
The Total Control of the HIV/TB Epidemics Programme, TCE is rooted in our motto; “Only the people can liberate themselves from the HIV/TB epidemics.” DAPP implements the TCE program in partnership with Zambia's Ministry of Health. TCE offers HIV/TB screening, testing and retention on treatment in communities. The goal is to end new HIV and TB...
Defence Force HIV Prevention Program
The Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) and Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) in Zambia have partnered to support the Zambian Defense Force Medical Services (ZDFMS) to strengthen their HIV/ AIDS response. This four-year cooperative agreement worth over 40-million US Dollars, is funded by the U.S. Department of...
Total Control of TB (TC-TB) (Completed) 
Tuberculosis is curable, yet it is responsible for thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of illnesses in Zambia every year. DAPP has always integrated TB interventions in the fight against HIV under the TCE Program (hyperlink to TCE Project). However, the TC-TB is a dedicated project working towards improving case finding of TB, uptake of TB...
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Access to safe water and adequate sanitation remains a challenge in Zambia with 49 percent of rural families without safe water and 68 percent lacking sanitation. From 2021 to 2024, DAPP Zambia implemented the Child Aid WASH Project in Mwinilunga, Kasempa and Kalumbila districts of North Western Province, addressing major community challenges...
Towards Malaria Elimination (Completed)
Our Towards Malaria Elimination project supported 22 health facilities in three malaria highly burdened districts of North Western Province, Kalumbila, Mwinilunga and Ikelenge between 2021 and 2023. The project strengthened community systems through community engagement activities, social behavior change communication as well as testing and...
HOPE Youth HIV Prevention Project (Completed)
Since 1996, DAPP’s HOPE Project has been supporting people living with HIV and mobilising voices against vices that contribute to the spread of HIV; especially among youths, such as poverty and Gender Based Violence (GBV). Between January 2021 and December 2023, DAPP implemented the Hope Youth HIV Prevention project through eight sub-sub grantees in...
COVID-19 Home Based Care (Completed)
Under the TCE program, a group of 128 Community Health Workers in Lusaka District and five districts in Southern Province were trained to provide COVID-19 Home Based Care. The Community Health Workers visited COVID-19 infected people daily to monitor their fever, oxygen levels and general health. This community program was for all those infected...
SARAI: Sexual and Reproductive Health for All Initiative (Completed)
Sexual and Reproductive Health for All Initiative (SARAI) was a five year project implemented in the three provinces of Zambia namely, Luapula, Muchinga and Copperbelt. The goal of the project was to increase modern contraceptive prevalence rate by 2% annually through increased and improved quality of family planning and sexual and reproductive...

Community Development

Our Community Development Projects build on the people’s ability to face challenges and move forward together.

Community groups such as Action Groups, Youth Groups, and Savings Groups are key for achieving change.

 

Mumena Child Aid Project (Completed)
The integrated community development project called the Child Aid Mumena project was implemented from 2013 to 2021. It aimed at empowering individuals, families and communities to become drivers of their own development agenda.  The project worked with 1,450 families organized in 60 Village Action Groups and followed the ten lines of the Child Aid...
Humana Rights in Correctional Facilities
DAPP Zambia, through the Human Rights in Correctional Facilities project, has since 2015 been contributing towards efforts of the Zambia Correctional Services to rehablilitate and reintergrate inmates into society to effectively contribute to social and economic growth. The project strengthens government response systems to enhance rehabilitation of...
Child Aid Western Province
The OVC project improves the health and social wellbeing of vulnerable children infected with and, or affected by HIV, as well as reducing new HIV infections among children and adolescents. Individual Case Management: The family- centered program focuses on individual Case Management. The program offers services tailored to the child and...
Zambia Family South-Central (ZAMFAM SC) (Completed )
"Changing lives of vulnerable children and building livelihood resilience in their families" The ZAMFAM South Central Project worked towards the improvement, care, and resilience of vulnerable populations while supporting HIV epidemic control in Zambia. Since its inception, the project accelerated children’s HIV/AIDS treatment initiatives, aimed at...

Education

Our approach to education is to create a space for Students of all ages to be the drivers and navigators of their own training, in a collective setting where studying both together and individually go hand in hand.

 

DAPP Mkushi College of Education
Poor teacher retention in rural schools continues to deprive children in rural Zambia of their right to education. DAPP has since adopted a teacher training method that prepare students for service in places where children desperately need to access their right to education. DAPP Mkushi College of Education is a pre-service teacher training college...
Children’s Town School
Given equal opportunities, children from vulnerable living conditions, including street children can also improve their conditions and contribute positively to society. Since 1990, DAPP Children’s Town in rural Malambanyama area of Chibombo district, has supported government’s policy and efforts to remove children from the street by providing them...

Clothes and Shoes

Our used clothes programme creates a win-win for a sustainable future: ‘new’ clothes for those who buy them; the creation of many worthwhile jobs in distribution and retail; in selling for re-use, and a significant reduction in the carbon emissions connected with manufacture.

 

Second Hand Clothes and Shoes Fundraising Project
The revenue DAPP raises from the sale of second hand clothes and shoes supports development projects. DAPP has 37 shops operating in all the 10 Provinces of Zambia. In 2021 created employment for 412 people. The shops further yielded benefits through employment in the informal second hand clothing business, which is crucial in providing a modest means of...

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