Africare/Zambia

Community-Based Financial Institutions: Partnered with the Government of the Republic of Zambia to improve access to sustainable financial services and to create 300 community based financial institutions to manage savings and lending activities in Chadiza, Chipata and Lundazi districts. More than 14,500
smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs mobilized
savings worth $62,000. A total of more than $262,000

in loans were disbursed among them with about 68% of the disbursed amount benefitting 11,000 women. (International Fund for Agricultural Development)

Foundations to Resilience: Agriculture, Water Management and Crop Diversification: Increased the ability of 1,800 smallholder farmers to withstand shocks and maintain food security through the diversification of agricultural activities and crops, water management activities and holistic farming practices in the Choma and Kalomo districts of the southern province. (United States Agency for International
Development/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance)

Integrated Maternal Neonatal Child Health: Partnered with New Zealand Aid to improve MNCH by supporting community initiatives to reduce mortality rates, promote family planning, increase access to health services and reduce the incidence of obstetric fistula in Kasama, Mpika, Lundazi and Samfya in Northern, Eastern and Luapula provinces. (New Zealand Aid)

Market Improvement & Innovation Facility: Partnered with the Agriculture Development Support Project and
the Zambian Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives to provide matching grant financial support to enhance
commercialization in support of 20 agribusinesses implementing 30 innovative technologies that reached
33,690 smallholder beneficiaries in 21 districts. Matching grants worth $2,232,973 were committed
for projects to improve productivity, quality, innovation and efficiency for smallholder farmers and to provide
working grants to increase farmers’ access to markets knowledge-based services and capital investments for
competitive advantage. (The World Bank)

Reproductive Health Services for the Integrated Maternal and Child Health Project: Worked in collaboration
with the Ministry of Learning and World Learning to increase the knowledge of and interest in family
planning services in the Lundazi, Kasama, Mpika and Samfya districts. Distributed more than 10,000 family
planning commodities. Trained 652 community leaders and 18 health centers to increase the community
access to family planning services and to improve the social and policy environment for family planning
behaviors. (United States Agency for International Development)

Sustainability Through Economic Strengthening, Prevention and Support for Orphans and Vulnerable
Children: Partnered with World Vision to increase awareness of HIV & AIDS and to ensure that individuals
and households affected by and vulnerable to HIV & AIDS have access to holistic, high-quality HIV
prevention, care and support in 22 districts of Zambia. By June 2012, STEPS OVC registered a total of 11,745
OVC in the program. 9,202 were entered in the COPIS database, allowing more efficient tracking of services.
5,238 BCS clients were registered, and 4,218 were entered in COPIS. 2,212 care-givers were registered,
and 1,878 were entered in COPIS. 5,426 clients were served with counseling and testing services. 40,435
clients were reached with HIV & AIDS prevention education services. 2,044 individuals were served
with economic strengthening services. Africare subgranted 38 organizations with a total of more than
$663,000. (United States Agency for International Development)