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  Project Zambia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Project Zambia was initiated by St. Mary's Christian Brothers Grammar School, Belfast, Ireland, in 2002.
Project Zambia isn't just about raising money, it's about raising awareness and forging links between the community in Belfast and the community in Misisi.
Project Zambia is about empowerment, giving a community the support and confidence it needs to develop solutions to its problems.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Project_Zambia   (518 words)

  
 Project Zambia? What's that?
Project Zambia was established at St. Marys Christian Brothers Grammar School, Belfast in 2002.
Project Zambia is dedicated to working in partnership with the people of Misisi Compound, Lusaka, Zambia to help provide solutions to poverty, disease and hunger.
Project Zambia is run entirely by volunteers who give of their time and talent absolutely freely.
homepage.mac.com /cmacaindreasa/ProjectZambia/Personal15.html   (544 words)

  
 Heifer Project Zambia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The aim of this project is to achieve self reliance from increased income and pass on within three years.
Project ID The notion of measuring impact has become an undisputable discourse in development facilitated by both government and no-governmental organisations globally.
The aim of the project is to improve the living standards of the poor families by increasing their crop production through the use of the animals thus acquired.
www.heiferzambia.org /Project%20Information.html   (1520 words)

  
 Rescue Mission Zambia (RMZ)
The project shall be a vehicle by which various instruments and documents, that help govern the nation and hence are of individual importance to each young person in Zambia, shall be translated or watered down from technical and political jargon and repackaged for the consumption of young people.
In Zambia, where 86% of the population lives on less than US $1 per day and 96.3% live on less than US $2 per day, this situation is undesirable as it denies children from poor families access to these parks for leisure.
The project was set up to inform, inspire and involve the target group about general activities of young scientists in the country and around the world by providing news, dis­cussion papers and an archive.
www.rmz.interconnection.org /pro   (5996 words)

  
 Zambia: Smallholder Livestock Investment Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Project area: While the project is national in scope, specific intervention areas will be determined during implementation based on the prevalence of epidemic cattle-killing diseases (e.g.
Important features: The project is consistent with IFAD’s 2004 country strategic opportunities paper, which identified the reinvigoration of the smallholder livestock subsector as an important opportunity for innovation and project intervention in view of the drastic reduction in the national cattle herd during the 1990s.
The project also responds to the strategy set out in Zambia’s poverty reduction strategy paper by providing instruments to reduce rural poverty, namely development of small-scale rural enterprises (smallholder mixed farms) and the provision of support services to assist poor rural people (animal disease control).
www.ifad.org /operations/pipeline/pf/zm.htm   (607 words)

  
 Zambia UAB HIV Research Project (ZUHRP)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It was initially established as Project San Francisco (PSF, named after the University of California at San Francisco) in Rwanda in 1986 and relocated to Lusaka in 1994 after the genocide in Rwanda.
    The HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Lusaka, Zambia
Approximately 30% of urban adults are infected with HIV (50% of Zambia is urban).
main.uab.edu /show.asp?durki=17500   (995 words)

  
 Christian Childrens Fund: Chimusanya Project - Zambia
Chimusanya Project is located about 112 miles east of Lusaka, Zambia's capital city.
With the project's help, the parents' committee has been able to buy uniforms, textbooks, pens and pencils, and other educational materials for the school.
On the whole, the people of Chimusanya are very determined to improve their lives through the enhancement of resources, goods, and services in their area.
www.angelfire.com /ak/AidZambia/CCFbenefits.html   (367 words)

  
 Community School in Zambia
The project started with a two day orientation at Twikatane farm in Lusaka where participants had the opportunity to know each other and through the interaction styles, they learned the importance of working in team with one set goal by practising the sense of living for the sake of others and the importance of sacrifice.
The IRFF project this year 2002 was launched in the outskirt of Zambia notably Ndola in the Copperbelt area.
The project started with the orientation to explain the historical background, mission and vision of IRFF.The latter orientation courses were: self introduction, character building, brainstorming on the importance of team work, Project proposal guidelines, interaction styles and group formation.
www.irff-europe.org /project/zambia/schoolproject.htm   (1512 words)

  
 FHI - FHI and Partners to Implement Comprehensive Six-Year Project in Zambia
The project will implement program and management strategies to initiate, improve and scale up such critical services as voluntary counseling and testing, prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission and clinical care for people living with HIV and AIDS, including antiretroviral treatment programs.
The project team plans to build capacity to provide high-quality services and strengthen links between the health care sector and the community to increase demand for (and use of) services.
Zambia is among the countries in the world hardest hit by HIV, with prevalence in some urban areas as high as 23%.
www.fhi.org /en/HIVAIDS/country/Zambia/res_eplan.htm   (420 words)

  
 Zambia | Structural Adjustment and Labor
The Project development objective is to enable Zambia Railways (ZR), through restructuring and privatization, to substantially increase its operating efficiency, reduce its cost of operations, and configure its freight services and tariffs to meet customers' requirements and expectations, and consequently, to increase its share of the local, international, and transit freight traffic.
Consequently the staff, who are entitled to pension benefits under the Zambia Railways Pension Rules (either a refund of contributions or a defetred pension on reaching the retirement age), cannot be paid their dues by the Pension Fund.
Zambia's privatization efforts suffered a setback when an international consortium withdrew from the negotiations on the sale of the largest asset package of the ZCCM in May 1998, but the process of privatizing the ZCCM gained renewed momentum in December 1998.
www.essentialaction.org /labor_report/zambia.html   (7256 words)

  
 LINKAGES Project | Country Activities | Zambia
It was recommended that a demonstration project be established focusing on infant feeding in an antenatal clinic in an area of high HIV prevalence.
In 1999, the Ndola Demonstration Project (NDP) was initiated to pilot the integration of infant feeding and HIV counseling and testing into maternal and child health and community services.
As a result of the project's work, a 12-day training course on integrated infant feeding and PMTCT is offered to health care practitioners from throughout Zambia and Africa.
www.linkagesproject.org /country/zambia.php   (395 words)

  
 Literacy Project in Zambia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Zambia occupies an area of 752,614 square kilometres in Central Southern Africa with an estimated population of about 10 million.
It is projected that the number of school age children will be 2.3 million in the year 2010.
The COLLIT project has been introduced as a collaborative activity between the University of Zambia (UNZA) and the Department of Community Development (DCD) of the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services.
www.col.org /literacy/zambia.htm   (2442 words)

  
 Unasylva - No. 161 - Wildlife management for rural development - African solutions to wildlife problems in Africa: ...
Zambia has had more than a decade of efforts in dealing with wildlife management, and specifically with a serious poaching problem (Lewis and Kaweche, 1985; Lewis, Kaweche and Mwenya, 1989; Leder-Williams, 1985).
To ensure that projects accepted by the community are funded, only the sub-authorities, whose members are primarily village headmen, can recommend community projects to the Authority, and chiefs are made signatories to these accounts so that funds are used as intended.
Studies in Zambia suggest that if benefits are limited to too small a percentage of residents, residents who are not involved may resent the programme and conspire to frustrate the success of those who are employed (Lewis, 1989 and unpublished data).
www.fao.org /docrep/t8850E/t8850e04.htm   (4455 words)

  
 Zambia Children's Village Project
Zambia who himself is an orphan, traditional African culture absorbs orphans into the extended family.
Their idea, which has been used in similar projects throughout Africa, is to create communities, Children's Villages, designed to be extended families for orphans.
In the two weeks we were there, the combined Team Zambia put almost all of the finishing touches on the second building, including outside plaster work, door and window frames, draft ceiling, cement floors, tile work, plumbing, and electrical.
www.safeplace.net /jpmorgen/zambia.html   (689 words)

  
 Missions - Zambia - The Lazarus Project
The Lazarus Project is rescuing, rehabilitating, educating and training homeless street kids in Lusaka, Zambia in the heart of Africa.
With the addition of a fifth teacher and a new Social coordinator, the project had adopted a new, exciting ambiance where real changes are becoming evident in the daily lives of the boys.
With the recent addition of a dormitory for the younger boys last year and a chicken run already in 2005, the infrastructure is continuing to expand daily allowing for income generation and new boys to join the farm.
www.crossroads.ca /missions/zambia.htm   (1523 words)

  
 Anglican Children's Project Lusaka, Zambia
The Anglican Children's Project (ACP) is a community-based outreach program whose goal is to halt the incidence of poverty and destitution of children, including AIDS orphans ending up on the streets.
In addition to community-based outreach work, Anglican Children’s Project runs a home for street children who have been in a temporary shelter and are ready to attend school, live in one place and learn skills toward self-independence.
Outreach workers also help organize home based care for the sick, plan for the future of the children soon to be orphaned, and raise funds to help with the food, clothing and school expenses of the orphans.
www.familycare.org /network/f20.htm   (787 words)

  
 UAB-Zambia HIV Research Project
Zambia is a landlocked country in southern central Africa about 10 to 18 degrees south of the equator.
Describing all of Zambia in a brief answer is difficult, but it is definitely worth a trip to experience Zambia firsthand.
The climate is moderate with three distinct seasons: cool and dry from May to August, hot and dry from September to November, and warm and wet from December to April.
www.uab.edu /publichealth/Zambia/psffaqs.htm   (2991 words)

  
 Project Management - PMTC Zambia
PMTC (Zambia) Ltd has successfully managed a wide range of projects, both long-term and short-term, for companies and organisations throughout Zambia and the SADC region.
PMTC are providing the Project Manager for this project that, continuing earlier work to strengthen management and administrative capacity in the Zambia Revenue Authority, aims to broaden the scope to include the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development and civil society organisations which contribute to the tax policy debate.
The ultimate objective of Project is the development of decentralized payroll management and establishment control system(s), which meet the needs of the GRZ for the long term (over 10 years).
www.pmtc.org /zambia/project_management.html   (809 words)

  
 Kenya, Zambia Agree Sh23b Power Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Nairobi -- Three countries are to facilitate a regional power project in which the private sector will play a major role in terms of ownership and financing.
Zambia has nearly 800 megawatts of excess capacity from its hydro-power which Kenya can tap through the inter-connectivity project.
A project management structure comprising technical and commercial committees headed by a management team, will also be put in place.
www.queensu.ca /msp/pages/In_The_News/2004/February/41.htm   (200 words)

  
 Welcome to CARE Zambia
CARE International in Zambia is a non-sectarian, non-profit development organisation working to assist the poor in urban and rural communities.
CARE International began operating in Zambia in January 1992 at the invitation of the Zambian government.
Activities initially focused on emergency relief in response to the severe drought of the early 1990s, and on interventions to mitigate the effects of escalating inflation and extreme poverty in urban areas.
carezambia.org   (212 words)

  
 Zambia Food Security Research Project
Project Fact Sheet: summarizes project approach and output.
Cotton in Zambia: an Assessment of its Organization, Performance, Current Policy Initiatives, and Challenges for the Future.
FSPR is cooperating with the Central Statistical Office in Zambia in the analysis of Post Harvest Survey Data.
www.aec.msu.edu /agecon/fs2/zambia   (916 words)

  
 CARE Peri-Urban Lusaka Small Enterprise (CARE PULSE) Project Zambia
The initial focus of its programs was emergency relief in response to the severe drought of the early 1990s and interventions to mitigate against the effects of escalating inflation and extreme poverty in urban areas.
The overall goal is to increase household income, economic security and employment opportunities among the families of poor micro-entrepreneurs in peri-urban areas of Zambia, through the provision of sustainable savings and credit services.
Active involvement of participants: The project has encouraged a high level of client participation in the credit delivery process, which has facilitated a high level of commitment and compliance by the participants.
www.worldbank.org /afr/findings/english/find147.htm   (1999 words)

  
 Zambia_project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The students in Miss Misler's Second Grade class, along with many other Newman classes, are collecting items for the Kondwa Day Centre for Orphans in Zambia, Africa.
This centre cares for 73 orphans during the day and relies almost completely on outside donations.
Zambia is one of the African countries with the highest population of orphans.
www.needham.mec.edu /newman/specialevents/zambia_project/zambia_project.html   (56 words)

  
 Articles about IES Projects
There are small community radio stations throughout Zambia that serve a critical role in disseminating information to the public and organizing community activities.
In Zambia’s Eastern Province, EDC is partnering with two stations: Radio Breeze in Chipata and Radio Chikaya in Lundazi.
Villages are immensely proud of their development projects and are eager to share their successes and lessons learned with their neighboring communities.
ies.edc.org /projects/ZCRstory.htm   (1125 words)

  
 IRFF School Project in Zambia
The project started with a two day orientation at Twikatane farm in Lusaka where participants had the opportunity to know each other and through the interaction styles, they learned the importance of working in team with one set goal by practicing the sense of living for the sake of others and the importance of sacrifice.
Among the work done to the project site were beautifying and cleaning the surroundings, construction, digging the toilets, etc. The school environment was changing day after day and became an attractive place for many adults and children of the community including the World Food Program Officers who were inspired to interact with participants.
The house to house visit in the community by Sister Eliska relieved hundreds of the inhabitants, the community was served in provision of HIV/AIDS Education, Hygiene, Nutrition and relief from light sufferings (pains, etc.).
www.tparents.org /UNews/Unws0210/irff_zambia.htm   (549 words)

  
 CCP: Family Planning Services Project in Zambia
The Zambia Social Marketing Project (ZSMP) was part of the government's effort to combat the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) including HIV, and expand the contraceptive prevalence rate.
The project, which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), is a collaborative effort between Population Services International (PSI), an international non-profit organization, and the Pharmaceutical Society of Zambia (PSZ).
The project hopes to expand the contraceptive and safer sex choices in Zambia by socially marketing Reality on a nation wide scale in the near future.
www.jhuccp.org /africa/zambia/fp.shtml   (1290 words)

  
 Africa Trade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The World Wildlife Fund for nature has launched the third stage of an environmental education project in Zambia that aims at shifting focus from the formal school system to local resource users as one way of addressing immediate and long term poverty issues in rural communities.
The new phase of the project is to use at least 500,000 pounds Sterling over a period of three years in the hope of increasing the capacities of rural communities on how to use natural resources sustainably in short and long terms for alleviating poverty.
It is strongly hoped that by the end of the project communities affected would have been empowered through education for natural resources management.
www.mamut.com /homepages/South_Africa/3/9/africatrade/newsdet4.htm   (184 words)

  
 International Business Leaders Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Some 16% of the population in Zambia are affected by HIV/AIDS, giving the country one of the highest prevalence rates in the Sub-Saharan African countries.
The disease has not only resulted in high mortality rates but has also posed complex challenges because resources to tackle the disease are limited, costs of health care are high and the number of cases are increasing.
Access to the economic and social benefits of ICT can be shared more widely to support learning, social development and enterprise in many educational, community and business settings through partnerships and solutions to which business, government and community partners bring their unique resources and competencies.
www.iblf.net /pages/np/index.asp?NPID=55   (447 words)

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