We are excited to announce that the Rising Fountains Development Programme has launched a new website www.risingfountains.org Our team and Webmaster have been working around the clock for the last couple of months to deliver an excellent website, so you can enjoy the best possible user experience, so as to improve good communication and information dissemination to our partners, beneficiaries and viewers generally.
We hope that our new website will give us new opportunities to explore our world better. We also strongly believe that this new re-branding for our organization through the new website will send the message across all varieties of people across the globe.
We wish for your help and support as always.
GWCN is an international non-profit network comprised of NGOs, Educational institutions, and private and public sector companies, that are active and interested in environmental issues related to the management and reduction of waste, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous. GWCN is currently the most widespread environmental network with reach to 185 countries and focuses on Environment Protection and Green Energy; subjects which are of serious importance to the habitants on planet Earth. GWCN is at the forefront of growing a solid platform and thriving network of environment and energy companies, NGOs, and institutions, both private and public, which are actively involved in environmental issues, advocating carbon reduction and waste management of all kinds, i.e. solid, liquid and gaseous waste, which adversely impact lives, flora and fauna and ecosystems. RFDP Zambia became a member of this network on 01 July 2022
Around the world, women and their babies are dying from preventable complications before, during and after childbirth. This is tragic because many of these complications can be treated with simple and affordable solutions.
RFDP’s health programme on Maternal and child health works to keep mothers and children healthy and help provide a strong start to children’s lives. RFDP Zambia aim to ensure that, children and women benefit from antenatal care and skilled birth attendance; maternal, newborn, and postnatal care; immunization coverage and school-based health interventions; as well as expanded coverage in the treatment of children affected by diarrhea, malaria, and acute malnutrition. To achieve this, RFDP Zambia launched the project entitled “Project for the reduction of maternal mortality covering Lundazi and Lumezi districts in Eastern Zambia.
Degradation of Natural Resources including the ways in which food is produced impacts future climate and sustainability of forests and landscapes in Zambia.
Recently, however, due to the rapid increase in population in Zambia, has resulted in an increased pressure on land, causing a substantial degradation of the forests and vegetation cover, with deforestation rates being as high as between 250,000 to 300,000 hectares per year (ILUA 2005-2008). Annual productivity of regenerating woodland is estimated at 2.5t per ha of which 40% is hard wood suitable for charcoal. The rapid degradation of the forest’s woodland ecosystem is a global concern and one of the major causes of climate change. Many physical and biological systems are being affected by climate changes around the world, this situation has aggravated the problem of poverty in Zambia resulting in a vicious cycle of environmental degradation and financial destitution.
To respond to these challenges, Rising Fountains Development Program with funding from the Ministry for foreign affairs of Finland, Civil Society Environment Fund (CSEF2) in partnership with Zambia Forestry College, Forestry department and the community, will be implementing an Improved Forests Management for Sustainable Livelihood Project (IFMSLP)
Zambia like many other countries is concerned about the situation of women and recognises that women and girls should enjoy the rights to participate in local governance and decision making on equal terms with men and women, boys, and girls in every area of life. Unequal power relations mean that millions of women and girls in Zambia are denied their basic rights and therefore kept in poverty. They may suffer physical and sexual violence, socially excluded from participating in governance structures, be discriminated against in the community, workplace and in school, and be denied the opportunity to influence and take part in decisions which impact their lives.
It is against this backdrop that RFDP Zambia launched a Lundazi women’s rights and local governance promotion project (LWRLGP), whose main goal is to increase women participation in local governance and decision making and ensure that women and men benefit and participate equally in the development process in Lundazi and Lumezi District in eastern Zambia.
