CARE Zambia 20th Anniversary

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CARE International in Zambia 20th Anniversary

CARE Zambia Country Directors 1992 -2012

Ralph Hazelton 1992 - 1994

Greg Duly 1994 - 1997

Kevin McCort 1997 - 2000

David Rhody 2000 - 2001

Brenda Cupper 2001 - 2005

Mark Vander Vort 2005 - 2012

Message from CARE Canada and CARE Zambia

This year is the 20th anniversary of CARE International in Zambia. We are honored by the commitment we have received from our countless partners over these years the Government of the Republic of Zambia, bilateral and multilateral donors, foundations, individual contributors, international and local NGOs, civil society, our own dedicated and hard-working staff, and last, but furthest from the least, the Zambian people. Their collective input, support and partnership has enabled CARE to support hundreds of thousands of Zambian women, men and children to cope and overcome the harsh realities of poverty and exclusion. During the past 20 years CARE has been at the forefront of both long-term development initiatives as well as humanitarian assistance. We have worked tirelessly to support the efforts of communities and organizations to transform the daily lives of the Zambian people. This book is our way of honoring the extraordinary courage and resilience of those we have worked with over the years. It depicts how our work has changed Kevin McCort President and CEO CARE Canada CARE Zambia Country 1997 2000 Mark Vander Vort Country Director 2005 - 2012 Also CARE Zambia Assistant Country Director 1999 2001 since CARE initiated its work in Zambia in 1992 in response to a food security crisis. The book contains images of our work, across a broad range of sectors where we have sought to contribute to poverty reduction and social justice. Over our 20 years in Zambia, more than 3,000 CARE Zambia staff have implemented an exceptionally wide variety of development and emergency-response programs, valued at over US$ 200 million, in all of Zambias 10 provinces. As we mark this important anniversary, we commit again to redoubling our development and capacity building efforts in Zambia for as long as required, and pledge that CARE Zambia will continue to work with our many partners towards our vision of a world of hope, tolerance and social justice where poverty has been overcome and people live in dignity and security.

CARE Zambia Staff

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RURAL LIVELIHOODS AND NATURAL RESOURCES

CARE Zambias Rural Livelihoods Program focuses on creating food security by building the capacity of local communities, creating links between remote farmers and markets, distributing food resources and agricultural inputs and promoting conservation agriculture to protect Zambias precious ecosystem. Many smallholder farms in Zambia are located in very remote locations and have little or no access to critical agricultural inputs such as seeds, pesticides, fertilizer, medication for livestock or modern irrigation techniques. To bridge this gap CAREs Agrodealer project and the Zambia Agro Inputs Support Project developed a network of agro input retailers through agents and service providers in order to provide smallholder households with critical agricultural inputs and technologies at reduced prices. Barriers to production and marketing for small farmers, poor nutrition and health services and frequent climate shocks such as drought that underlie the serious food insecurity issues that impact Zambias most vulnerable populations were the focus for the LFSP, CONASA project, and C-FAARM which promoted conservation agriculture, crop diversification, dairy farming, providing veterinary training, rehabilitating the rural infrastructure, counseling on health and nutrition, providing short-term food rations and helping communities to address the risks to their livelihoods. The farmers were also empowered to own, lead, participate and benefit from fair market opportunities by adopting sustainable agricultural and land management practices over the long-term. Through its COMACO project, CARE provided families in Chama District with sustainable sources of alternative incomes such as farming and incentives for environmentally sound production techniques. CARE has also been advocating for change through the LAGAFA project; a multicountry advocacy project that aims to develop better food security and nutrition policies and programs. CARE has also worked with the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit on various emergency situations. Another follow-on project which promoted agro-dealership in central province was ADAPT.

CARE Zambias Rural Livelihoods Programs focus on creating food security at the household level thereby contributing to national food security.

CAREs ADAPT project developed a network of agro input retailers who serve as agents linking farmers and large suppliers of agriculture inputs.

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The ADAPT project also mobilized farmers groups and introduced them to agro dealers.

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C-FAARM trained vulnerable farming households in conservation agriculture, crop diversification, dairy farming and veterinary skills to help communities address the risks and shocks to their livelihoods.

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Over 20,000 farmers and their families benefited from the 80 water harvesting structures that were built or rehabilitated by CAREs LFSP (1994-2000).

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CAREs LFSP (1994-2000) also promoted seed storage technologies and trained farmers how to construct seed storage bins in Southern Province.

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COMACO targets women, the most vulnerable of the population, by providing marketing services that enable them to sell produce to the Commercial Trading Centers.

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COMACO activities include teaching improved farming methods, conservation agriculture, aquaculture, crop diversification and crop rotation.

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CONASA and COMACO projects sought to improve households food and income security as an indirect wildlife management strategy and means to reduce the threats to natural resources.

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GOVERNANCE AND URBAN LIVELIHOODS

CARE Zambia has implemented a number of projects related to governance and urban livelihoods since the mid 1990s. CARE Zambias governance program has focused on strengthening community-based governance structures in peri-urban settlements, while at the same time ensuring linkages with Local Authorities for sustainable service delivery related, but not limited to water supply, environmental sanitation, urban infrastructure and microfinance or sub granting. Governance and livelihood projects implemented by CARE include PULSE, PUSH I and PUSH II, PROSPECT, CULP, CMI, CGP, NP-PUWSS, PPURSS, SPURRZ, URBAN INSAKA, C3-COMMUNITY CHALLENGE and STOVES. For example, PROSPECT worked through representative Area Based Organizations (ABOs) to develop, manage and maintain basic infrastructure and other water and sanitation facilities by taking into account the needs of the poor and vulnerable populations in 13 peri-urban settlements of Lusaka and Livingstone. The program also focused on institution building and micro-finance. The NP-PUWSS through funding from Irish AID was implemented to improve access to WATSAN services among peri-urban communities and also worked to improve the management of WATSAN structures by peri-urban communities of five districts in Northern Province. The STOVES Project supported five stove production groups and four women groups for the production, marketing and distribution of over 4,000 JIKO stoves - a fuelefficient stove - which reduces charcoal consumption by 50% compared to the traditional mbaula.

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Chipata Water Trust pilot scheme, commissioned in 1997 funded by DFID established under PUSH II and PROSPECT.

Water Trust Managemnt Team

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With communities and local partners, CAREs PROSPECT program constructed and established 12 water schemes in peri-urban settlements in Lusaka and Livingstone.

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Water vendors under Chaisa Water Trust

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A Water Vendor depositing her days tap user-fees to an accountant at the Chaisa Water Trust Office. Vendors are trained to read water meters and taught simple accounting skills.

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Water is not free. Residents have to pay for water if the scheme is to be sustained. Prior to the water scheme, many women had to walk long distances in search of water.

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To address sanitation problems across four settlements (Kanyama, George, Chipata and Chaisa) CARE constructed Public FeePaying Toilets and showers near markets with support from European Union, and in other areas with support from DfID and JICA.

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To safeguard water sources, the Chaisa Community Managed Project (CMI) with funding from Sida piloted two approaches to ecological sanitation: Double Volt and dome type. The eco-san model has been replicated in other parts of Lusaka.

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CAREs NP-PUWSS project facilitated the construction and refurbishment of water intakes, treatment, storage and supply facilities in periurban areas of Northern Province.

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Newly installed pumps and pump houses in Mbala North West Province

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Women in Malota (Livingstone) peri-urban settlement celebrating the commissioning of a CARE facilitated water scheme on 19th October 2000.

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Chipata jungle theatre performing at the launch of the JIKO stove.

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MICRO FINANCE
The PeriUrban Lusaka Small Enterprise (PULSE) Project started operations in July 1996 as a micro-finance program under an Accountable Grant Agreement with DFID. The project, initiated by CARE International Zambia, was an effort to fight increasing urban poverty by improving access to credit by micro and small enterprises. PULSEs purpose was to establish a sustainable, autonomous microfinance institution that provides financial services to peri-urban areas of Zambia. The project was operational in Kalingalinga, Lilanda, Garden, Matero, Kanyama, Mtendere and Kaunda Square compounds. In April 2001, PULSE was de-linked from CARE and registered as an independent Zambian entity called Pulse Holdings Limited (PHL) and has since expanded to other parts of the country and rebranded to Entrepreneurs Financial Centre (EFC). Apart from PULSE, other CARE projects promoted village savings and loans (VSL) in STEPSOVC and cooperative savings groups in PROSPECT, CULP and PPA.

PULSE Senior Credit Officer explaining projects interventions and benefits.

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The Chipata Co-Operative society established under PROSPECT funded by DFID

Co-Operative Administrater

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SOCIAL PROTECTION
CARE Zambia has also been implementing social protection programs focusing on demand- and supply-side transfers which allow people to better manage risks. Between 2004 and 2009, CARE Zambia implemented a DFID funded program, the Program Partnership Agreement (PPA) whose main was to enable the vulnerable in the society to better manage risk associated with food insecurity, destitution and HIV and AIDS. The PPA consisted of several implementation streams over its five year lifespan. One of the specific projects under PPA was the Social Cash Transfer Scheme (SCTS) implemented in Chipata, Katete and Kazungula districts.

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A grandmother with her three grandchildren (orphans) in front of their house in Katete. she is a beneficiary of SCTS targeted at the elderly

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HEALTH
CARE Zambias Health programming which commenced in the mid 1990s through the Community Family Planning project has over the years included highly technical and community-led interventions around child health, family planning, adolescent reproductive health, operations research, service delivery and systems strengthening, HIV prevention and treatment and also mitigates the effects of HIV & AIDS by providing community-based social services for people living with HIV through HBC & OVC support. CAREs interventions have been designed around complementing the Ministry of Healths efforts to address its priority health areas which include malaria, tuberculosis, family planning, child health and HIV and AIDS. Projects that have been implemented within the health sector have included CFP, ZIHP-SERVE, ZIHPCOMM, PALS, WCH, PURCH, DOTS, MOST, TIPEC KOPANO, STAMPP, TIPEC, THANZI, ITAP, PALS, C-CHANGE, STEPS-OVC, MwB, ZPCT II and PRISM.

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In rural areas, women walk long distances to access child health services.

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The Moyo wa Bana project has over the years implemented initiatives around Community IMCI and capacity building of MoH child health staff leading to expanded and improved child health care services and practices at facility, community and household levels.

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While it is common for growth monitoring and other child health services to be conducted under a tree, community mobilization efforts of the MwB project have resulted into the construction of semipermanent to permanent structures

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The MwB project has also encouraged male involvement in the caring of children and positive results are already showing

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In order to facilitate the provision of technical services and support to the hard-to-reach populations, CARE staff and partners frequently endure hardships and risks. In the picture: ITAP project vehicle crossing a makeshift bridge in Chama district and the ITAP team braving the water to get to a health facility.

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Microscopist trained by CARE through Thanzi project providing a service at Minga Mission Hospital in Petauke.

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Part of the equipment and medical consignment imported by CARE Zambia from Medshare to support the MOH in Eastern Province.

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Through the Cobet school in Chawama, the STAMPP project has deployed a network of 54 volunteer caregivers, all of whom have benefitted from the program and are now giving back to their community.

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The EU Representative to Zambia officially handing over Zambulances procured under the STAMPP project to the Ministry of Health.

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The Zambulance has helped to ease transporting patients to the health facilities

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A PRISM sales agent marketing and explaining a female condom.

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A PRISM project sales agent marketing and explaining health products to rural women.

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ZIHP staff conducting a community health sensitization session.

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Bicycles procured by the STEPS-OVC project have improved the mobility of caregivers to expand their coverage.

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ZPCT II project-Mobilizing community members for voluntary counseling and testing.

ZPCT II project employs community mobilization approaches to promote the uptake of male circumcision services.

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OVC SUPPORT
Housed within the health sector, CARE Zambias OVC support dates back to the mid 90s and has been designed to complement government efforts in service delivery around education and health. CARE projects: SCOPE-OVC, SCOPE-OVC, ECD, ELMA, CHANGES and SCORES, have been mobilizing, scaling up and strengthening community-led responses to help children in poorly served communities. Essentially the projects train community teachers, caregivers and guardians in the skills required to better meet the needs of orphans and vulnerable children. CARE uses these schools as the entry point into the communities, which makes the project more efficient and consequently builds strong partnerships with communities. This approach has also enabled CARE to take a more holistic view. For example; using the community schools as a base, CARE conducts health programs such as managing childhood illness, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis prevention and treatment, the prevention of mother to child transmission and home-based care for people living with AIDS. Other activities include training volunteer teachers in improved teaching methods; training parent community school committees in school management, community and resource mobilization; and training. This support has also been extended to the provision of teaching and learning materials. Projects interventions has also involved linking the children to local clinics for counseling, testing, treatment, growth promotion and vitamin supplementation; and provided grants for infrastructure improvement such as water and sanitation facilities. volunteer caregivers in psychosocial skills, child protection and advocacy methods. Another on-going initiative which build on the above named projects is STEPSOVC current supporting communities in Southern, Eastern and Copperbelt provinces.

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CAREs SCOPE-OVC project helped build classroom blocks for community schools. Prior to that children were taught either under a tree or in dilapidated structures.

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CARE provided furniture to community schools.

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CARE Zambia-supported community-led schools provide education material to children.

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Textbooks are also provided.

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SCORES project provides psychosocial support to community school children.

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The SPLASH project will improve water and sanitation services at schools in rural areas of Eastern Province.

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EMERGENCY & REFUGEE SUPPORT

CARE International Zambia refugee operations started in 1992 in Maheba Camp in Solwezi, North Western Province and beyond this, two more projects were implemented. The second project was the Refugee Empowerment Program (REP) operated within the Mwange Refugee Camp in Mporokoso district, Northern Province. CARE International Zambia was responsible for the overall camp management for 25 000+ Congolese refugees. The third was a project called WEAR which was based in Nangweshi refugee camp-Shangombo district of Western Province of Zambia. The camp housed 24,000 Angolan refugees. In both camps,CARE Zambia was responsible for agricultural and natural resources, education, food distribution and community services provision. Under WEAR, gender violence interventions were initiated that eventually laid the foundation for CAREs ASAZA program. EMOP- This was a year long relief program as a result of drought in southern province in 2001. CATER was another program that started in 2001 as a result of the recurrent drought that hit most of central and , southern and western provinces. The project distributed food to the chronically food insecurity households in seven districts. The program had another project called Adding To Food (ATF), which supported the health facilities with essential drugs for the under five children. ATF program conducted on-site screening for malnutrition to both under-five children and women. REACH - This was a follow up program to CATER and was aimed at rebuilding the lost community assets as a result of the drought. Among the programs promoted was the seed distribution , goat rearing, setting up community based nutrition support groups, promotion of home gardens and building roads and infra structure. CARE International also implemented an emergency related project in the peri urban areas the first being the PUSH I which was a food-for-work project which helped empower women particularly the elderly and widows. These were graduated into more sustainable small enterprises using the Chilimba group concept. Beneficiary communities included Kanyama, Chipata and George in Lusaka and Malota in Livingstone.

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SEXUAL AND GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

CARE Zambia first implemented SGBV projects in two camps for Angolan refugees were it provided support to survivors of SGBV and established highly effective mobile courts that were able to prosecute offenders in a much more efficient way than if the cases had been brought to the district courts. A pilot SGBV project was then implemented in Chipata and Lusaka districts and developed a successful model for Coordinated Response Centers (CRCs), the first of their kind in Zambia, which serve as one-stop sites where survivors can find medical, psychological and legal support. This program called A Safer Zambia (ASAZA) was then expanded to five other districts namely Kabwe, Kitwe, Livingstone, Mazabuka and Ndola. The support from USAID came from the Presidential Womens Justice and Empowerment Initiative (WJEI) and the U.S. Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). ASAZA developed informational, educational and behavior-change communication strategies to help Zambians reflect on rights, gender and power; and envision and adopt new forms of relationships based on equal dignity rather than subordination and violence. ASAZA also established six Coordinated Response Centres (CRCs), in addition to the two CRCs established under CAREs SGBV-1 pilot project. CARE has implemented ASAZA in partnership with World Vision, Africare, CRS and IJM, YWCA, WLSA, ZAPSCAN, VSU, MoH and CJF. In the peri-urban areas similar SGBV initiatives were promoted by gender groups under CAREs PROSPECT program.

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ASAZA staff sensitizing a group of Ngoni warriors during the Ncwala ceremony (an annual traditional ceremony of the Ngoni people in Chipata District Eastern Province).

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An ASAZA supported CRC VSU Police Officer of Kabwe speaking to Headmen at a community meeting in Chief Chamukas and Litetas areas, Central Province.

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CARE Zambia Health Sector Director making a presentation on ASAZA to the US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and former Zambian President Rupiah Banda.

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CARE COOPERATIVE
CARE Zambia is not only concerned with assisting the poor and most vulnerable to transform their lives but has extended this support to its own staff by introducing a cooperative initiative in 1995 resulting in the birth of the Care Cooperative Credit and Savings Society. The Care Cooperative has transformed the lives of CARE Zambia staff and their families. To date, over 3000 employees have benefited from this staff-managed organization. CARE Zambia has a standing relationship with the Care Cooperative through which staff channel their share contributions from their salaries.

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Care Cooperative annual general meeting for the year 2012.

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Acknowledgements
CARE International Zambia been supported by many organizations over the past 20 years. We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the following key supporters:
Government Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child Health Ministry of Education and Early Childhood Ministry of Finance and National Development Ministry of Gender and Child Development Ministry of Health Ministry of Home Affairs Ministry of Local Government and Housing Ministry of Youths & Sports National Water Supply and Sanitation Council (NWASCO) Local Authorities Kasama Municipal Council Kitwe City Council Livingstone City Council Lusaka City Council Ndola City Council Bi-lateral Donors Department for International Development (DFID) United States Government United States of Agency International Development (USAID) OFDA (Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Food For Peace (FFP) Presidents Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Department Of Defense (DOD) Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (BPRM) of the Department of State Irish Aid Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)Royal Dutch Embassy European Union (EU) ECHO EuropeAid Jesuits Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) Germany Technical Assistance to Zambia (GTZ) JICA /Japanese Embassy Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) New Zeland Agency for International

International Partners Africare Multi-lateral Donors Boston University Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Catholic Relief Services (CRS) UNAIDS Child Fund (CF) UNDP Creative Associates UN-Habitat Family Health International (FHI360 UNHCR International Food Policy Research Institute UNICEF (IFPRI) WFP International Institute for Environment and World Bank Development (IIED) International Fund for Agricultural International Science & Technology Institute Development (IFAD) (ISTI) John Hopkins Foundations & Trusts John Snow, Inc AGRA (Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa) PLAN International Dulverton Trust Population Council ELMA Foundation Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative Frees Foundation (REPSSI) Gates Foundation Society for Family Health (SFH) Hilton Foundation Southern Africa Alliance for Indigenous Trivedi Family Resources (S AFFIRE) Wellspring Foundation Southern Africa Drought Network (SADNET) Water Aid CARE International Members Water and Sanitation for Urban Poor (WSUP) CARE Canada WCS CARE Deutschland (Germany) World Vision International CARE International UK World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) CARE Netherlands CARE sterreich(Austria) CARE USA Development (NZAID)

Final Design Advisors

Cathryn Kadimba-Mwanamwambwa Precious Mooze-Ngonga

Designed by Inzy

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Senior Leadership Team Mark Vander Vort Kathleen OBrien Jay Goulden Emmanuel Banda Sanga Mataka Cathryn Mwanamwambwa Mbeluko Phiri Petros Banda Mary Simasiku Henry Loongo Peter Chabwela Munamobwe S Nchemba Local Partners AFYA MUZURI Catholic Diocese of Chipata CHEP COMACO Expanded Church Response HODI KARA Counseling Lifeline PCAZ Platform for Social Protection ROCS Salvation Army WLSA YWCA ZAMBART ZATAC

CARE Zambia 20th Anniversary Organizing Team Emmanuel Banda Cathryn Kadimba-Mwanamwambwa Sanga Mataka Mbeluko Phiri Munamobwe S. Nchemba Mark Vander Vort Peter Chabwela Precious Mooze-Ngonga Akende Saasa Yvonne Chama

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ACRONMYS FOR CARE PROJECTS 1992 2012 ADAPT Zambia Agro Dealer Project ASAZA A Safer Zambia ATF Adding To Food C3 City Community Challenge Fund CATER Community Access To Emergence Response C-CHANGE Communication for Change C-FAARM Consortium for Food Security, Agriculture and Nutrition, AIDS, Resilience & Markets CFP Community Family Planning CGP

Copperbelt Governance Project CHANGES Community Health and Nutrition, Gender and Education Support CMI Chaisa Community Managed Improvement project COMACO Community Markets for Conservation CONASA Community-based Natural Resources Management and Sustainable Agriculture CRC Coordinated Response Center CULP Copperbelt Urban Livelihoods Program DMMU Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit

DOTS Direct Observed Treatment, Short course EMOP Emergency Operations GCEP George Community Empowerment Program ITAP Integrated Tuberculosis & AIDS Project LAGAFA Local And Global Action for Food security in Africa LFSP Livingstone Food Security Program MOST Micronutrient Operational Strategies & Technology MWB-CBI Moyo Wa Bana Capacity Building Initiative

NP-PUWSS Northern Province Peri Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Program PALS Partnership for Adolescent Sexual and PPA Partnership Program Assistance PPURSS Promoting Peri-Urban Sanitation Ser vices PRISM Private Sector Social Marketing Project PROSPECT Program of Support for Poverty Elimination and Community Transformation PULSE Peri-Urban Lusaka Small Enterprise PUSH I $ II Project Urban Self-Help

REP Refugee Empowerment Project Reproductive Health REACH Relief and Emergency Community Enhancement SCOPE-OVC Strengthening Community Partnerships for the Empowerment of Orphans and Vulnerable Children SCORES Strengthening Community Schools to provide Education and other related Services SGBV Sexual and Gender-Based Violence SMEP Sorghum Marketing Enterprise Project

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SPURRZ Strengthening Peri-Urban Risk Reduction in Zambia STAMMP Strengthening Tuberculosis, AIDS & Malaria Prevention Programs STEPS-OVC Tuberculosis Health Activities in Zambia TIPEC Tuberculosis Integrated Project Eastern and Central Provinces Urban INSAKA Initiative for Sharing Knowledge and Action WCH Whole Child Health WEAR Western Province Emergency Assistance for Refugees

ZASP Zambia Agro Supplier Project ZIHP COM Zambia Integrated Health Programme Communication ZIHP SERVE Zambia Integrated Health Programme Services ZPCT II Zambia Prevention Care & Treatment

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