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Lusaka - Zambia: Government has, with support from cooperating partners, embarked on the establishment of four irrigation schemes in the Gwembe district. The irrigation ....
WFP Zambia Country Brief, February 2021 Format US$ 1.7 million cash-based transfers made US$ 279,845 six-month (April – September 2021) net funding requirements 320,463 people assisted in FEBRUARY 2021 Operational Updates In February, WFP assisted 320,463 people, including 15,820 refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with food and cash assistance, 213,245 vulnerable urban people under the COVID-19 cash assistance programme, 18,628 people through nutrition improvement interventions and 59,643 people through smallholder support activities. The remaining 11,204 people were reached through social protection and capacity-strengthening interventions. WFP continued to implement its COVID-19 response, reaching 42,649 households (213,245 people) across the targeted six districts (Chilanga, Kafue, Kalulushi, Kitwe, Livingstone and Lusaka). Each household received ZMW 800 (USD 37.5) to cover its needs for two months for a total of ZMW 34.12 million ....
The government says all social protection programmes namely the Food Security Pack (FSP), Social Cash Transfer (SCT) and Girls’ Education and Women’s Empowerment and Livelihoods (GEWEL) will next year be up-scaled. Minister of Community Development and Social Services Kampamba Mulenga-Chewe says the government wants to increase the number of beneficiaries under the social protection empowerment programs. Mrs. Mulenga-Chewe says government recognizes the vulnerability of women and girls in the country. Speaking when she paid a courtesy call on Gwembe District Commissioner yesterday, the Minister said government is determined to improve the welfare and livelihoods of women in the country through ambitious empowerment programs. ....
By Moses Zangar, Jr. For years, Kennedy Chilepa struggled to eke out a living growing maize and cowpeas on his farm in Zambia’s Mambwe District, where crop yields often take a big hit due to severe dry spells and floods, jeopardizing food security. Chilepa and many small-scale farmers in the country’s east had long relied on traditional farming methods to manage their crops. But such traditional know-how has become increasingly unreliable and are no longer sufficient to cope with a changing climate. Farmer Field School at Ngambwa camp in Nyimba district listen to the Camp Extension Officer Photo by Turnbull Chama at FAO ....