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| iSchool |
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| e-learning in rural schools |
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| The iSchool project aims to provide internet connectivity and online education resources ('e-learning' ) to Zambian schools on a commercial basis. |
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| Tata Tannery |
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| Inclusive value chain |
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| Tata processes rawhide sourced from small-scale cattle farmers for export. This venture aims to develop a sustainable supply strategy for leather production |
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| Sylva Foods |
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| Indigenous foods |
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| Sylva Foods aims to grow demand for traditional foods and beverages such as dried meat and cassava based on an inclusive local sourcing model. |
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| Healthstore Foundation |
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| Child & Family Wellness clinics (CFW) |
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| One Family Health will establish a network of clinics providing healthcare services to the poor in rural, slum and peri-urban areas of Zambia |
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| Copperbelt Energy Corporation |
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| Biofuel production |
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| CEC aims to expand its biofuel production by including producers of jatropha, castor and other oil seeds into its supply chain. |
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| Sun International |
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| Enhancing smallholder climate resilience, Zambia |
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| Sun International Hotels aims to develop climate-resilience amongst the 400 farmers engaged in its local fruit and vegetable sourcing programme. |
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| Cropserve Zambia Limited |
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| Agricultural inputs for smallholder farmers |
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| Cropserve aims to develop an effective and sustainable distribution model to supply the small scale farmer segment with affordable and high quality agro-inputs. |
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| Barrick Lumwana Mining Co |
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| Lumwana Contract Developer Programme |
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| Barrick aims to increase goods and services procured from local mining industry suppliers and build in-country capacity to enable local SMEs to access wider markets. |
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| Lafarge Cement Zambia |
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| Affordable Housing Initiative |
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| Lafarge aims to address the large deficit in affordable housing for medium to low-income Zambian families and establish itself as a key provider of building solutions. |
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| SHORT PROJECTS |
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| GreenLaiti |
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| Renewable energy |
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| This venture will market ethanol-based cooking fuel to replace paraffin and charcoal as a cheaper energy source that will benefit low income consumers in local communities. |
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| Landscape study |
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| Access to finance |
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| This project will conduct a study of the different finance options available to businesses who face challenges with the prohibitively stringent lending demands of commercial banks. |
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| HiNation |
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| Solar lighting |
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| HiNation aims to commercialise its portable solar lighting and mobile phone charging pane which will reduce costs and provide opportunities for rental. |
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| VaggatillVagga |
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| Biomass stoves |
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| Vagga till Vagga want to provide an alternative source of energy to families through an inclusive waste-to-energy business project based on biomass produced from waste sawdust and husks. |
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| Climate-smart business |
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| This project delivered a workshop for a group of local businesses, as well as a series of one-to-one consultations for Facility-supported companies, to help them understand the impacts of climate change. |
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| Imagine Rural Development |
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| Moringa processing |
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| This project will market products derived from the Moringa crop on a commercially viable basis. Cooperative will help farmers initiate production and diversify end products for sale to international markets. |
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| Sunline |
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| Business plan review |
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| Zambian company aiming to set up a peanut butter processing plant. This project will develop the venture's business plan and map its development impacts. |
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| Taj Pamodzi Hotels |
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| Local smallholder sourcing strategy |
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This project aims to explore possible procurement strategies that address the challenges of local sourcing in the Zambian hotel sector.
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| CHC Commodities |
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| Inclusive business strategy |
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| This project will help CHC understand the size of the local and international markets for starch and glucose and the potential for growth over time... |
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| BioCarbon Partners |
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| Charcoal value chain analysis |
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| The Facility worked with to BioCarbon conduct a value chain analysis of the charcoal trade in rural areas around Lusaka, and draw up a business plan based on these findings. |
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| ARK |
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| Investment scoping strategy |
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Building on ARK's investments in dysentery control in Zambiato investigate the role of the private sector in improving supply of and demand for essential health commodities.
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| BIF, IBLF, IAP |
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| Parntership workshop |
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| This workshop targeted high-level decision makers from companies in Zambia to conduct partnership broker training and a seminar on the business case for partnering. |
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| Livestock Centre of Excellence |
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| Workshop |
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| Delivering a business plan for a group of agribusinesses in the beef, dairy, poultry, pork and aquaculture sectors, for setting up a livestock centre of excellence that will train small-scale farmers. |
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| Sun International Hotels |
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| Local meat sourcing strategy |
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Sun International aim to source meat for their restaurants from local livestock farmers, engaging them in their value chain.
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