- Project Name: Water supply, Sanitation and Hygiene promotion
Budget: $180,200 Amt Raised $0 Balance : $180,200 - Project Name: Education
Budget: $100,000 Amt Raised $ 0 Balance: $ 100,000 - Project Name: Project for the Reduction of Maternal Mortality
Budget: $250,000 Amt raised: $80,000 Balance $170,000 - Project Name: Financial Services and Livelihood Improvement Project (FiSLIP)
Budget: $350,000 Amt Raised $ 0 Balance: $350,000 - Project Name: Environmental and Forestry Conservation and Land Management
Budget: $133, 500 Amt Raised $5,000 Balance: $ 127,500 - Project Name: Gender equality, women empowerment and participation in governance and decision making
Budget: $300,000 Amt Raised $100,000 Balance: $200,000 - Project Name: Improving food security through sustainable Agriculture Practices
Budget: $350,000 Amt raised: $0 Balance $350,000
Project name: Water supply, sanitation and hygiene Promotion Project.
Budget: $180,200 Amt Raised $0 Balance : $180,200
Objective: To increase access to adequate water supply, sanitation and improving hygiene behavior through hygiene behavioral change messages and hygiene packages in eastern Zambia.
Specific Objective.
- To promote improved sanitation services for 2,500 households and 50 schools in order to have access to adequate sanitation facilities in Lundazi and Vubwi Districts by Dec 2018.
- To Increase access to clean safe water supply for 5,000 households by Dec 2018 in Lundazi and Vubwi districts
- To improve hygiene behavior for 10,000 community members and 20,000 school going children through hygiene behavioral change messages and hygiene facility packages such as hand washing, safe food preparation and other means of preventing transmission routes for water borne diseases in their homes, at work and in school.
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2. Project Name: Education
Budget: $100,000 Amt Raised $ 0 Balance: $ 100,000
Objective:
Two thirds of the children in rural Lundazi do not go to school. Families face the cruel choice of choosing boys over girls to attend community schools due to luck of money to buy basic school supplies. Yet, every child has the right to an education! This project will help enhance school enrollment for children and youths with particular focus on girls. It is expected that 1000 children will be placed in basic school (primary school) with school supplies (uniforms/books/pencils and other indirect costs). The project will also improve the quality education by attracting qualified teachers to work in rural areas through improved accommodation (the project will rehabilitate 4 teachers houses).
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3. Project Name: Project for the Reduction of Maternal Mortality
Budget: $250,000 Amt raised: $80,000 Balance $170,000
Overall Objective;
To improve the quality of maternal health through increasing community participation in HIV/AIDS prevention and Maternal Health services in Kazembe, Kamsaro, Mwanya, Chanyalubwe, Mankhaka, Chasefu and Khulikuli Rural health centre catchment areas.
Specific Objectives
- To contribute to the reduction of maternal mortality by 50% in the targeted rural health centre catchment areas of Chipata, Vubwi and Lundazi District by Dec 2018
- To provide both technical and material support to 450 SMAG members in the targeted rural health centres in Chipata, Vubwi and Lundazi district by Dec 2018
- To contribute to reduction of new HIV infection amongst 5,000 households in Lundazi, Chipata and Vubwi Districts
- To provide HIV prevention, Care and Treatment support to 5,000 households in Lundazi, Chipata and Vubwi Districts
- To provide confidential voluntary counselling and testing in Lundazi, Chipata and Vubwi Districts
High Martenal Mortality and HIV & AIDS remains to be one of the greatest challenges to human development and is threatening to transform the way soceities conduct their business. As a result of hign martenal dealths and HIV & AIDS in Lundazi district many families are nursing sick people; many families are living in fear because their security has been severly threatened – breadwinners are dying affecting livelihoods and threatening food security. The need for reproductive and child health (RCH) and HIV/AIDS interventions is compelling. According to the ZDHR 2011, there has been a reduction in the level of maternal mortality from 729 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2002 to 591 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2007. The target is to reduce the maternal mortality ratio to 429 deaths per 100,000 live births by 2015. The current rate is very high hence the need for further reduction in maternal mortality in underserved areas of the Lundazi district. Lundazi like other districts is experiencing high rate of maternal deaths. There are, however, some major factors hindering the attainment of this MDG 5.
These include inadequate access to health facilities and distances to health facilities which forces many women, especially in rural areas, to deliver at home, women not attending antenatal services at rural health centres, use of herbs during delivery. The scourge of HIV and AIDS is a further constraint. In 2010, 10 mothers died of maternal complications ranging from Ante partum and postpartum hemorrhage, breach presentation, maternal distress, and pelvic disproportion). All these conditions would have been avoided if the women attended antenatal and postnatal clinics. Most of these were brought at the hospital very late. The mortality rate was at 157.2 (Annual medical report 2010). This is largely due to negative attitudes and ignorance of antenatal and postnatal services by some women. Mothers are ignorant of the dangers of not going for Ante Natal Clinic (ANC) and worse still prefer delivering at home and those who deliver at the clinic, few of them come back for postnatal
RFDP Initiatives under maternal health and child health and HIV/AIDS programs include;
- Training of safe motherhood Action groups in the Rural health centres.
- Promoting and increasing antenatal care services in the health facilities.
- Promoting institutional deliveries
- Promoting Postnatal care services in the health centres
- Increasing the uptake of Family planning
- Sensitization of the community on the danger signs of pregnancy and the new born and encourage family health talk.
- Help to identify and report cases of obstetric fistulae and mobilize both human/material resources for action.
- We provide access to Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) to people in Lundazi district.
- RFDP provide Home base Care to the chronically ill people in the district
- Provide care and Treatment support to people on ART.
- Distribution of IEC materials
RFDP is also involved in Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission (MTCT) of HIV, research has shown that this can be implemented in settings with limited resources.15% of new HIV infections each year are caused by MTCT and that elimination of HIV infection in infants and young children would serve to accelerate global HIV prevention effort
Rising Fountains Development Program also provide access to information on referrals for the chronically ill and the sick. We work with the local chiefs to provide a forum for communities to come and learn more about HIV/AIDS and how to access support locally and at district level.
Poor health can be a product and a cause of
poverty, as people are unable to work, attend school, or care for their families
Francis Mwanza a SMAG member attending to pregnant
woman during antennal care at Mwanya health centre in Lundazi district
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4. Project Name: Financial services and Livelihood Improvement Project (FiSLIP)
Budget: $350,000 Amt Raised $0 Balance: $350,000
The project aims to significantly reduce poverty levels amongst 5,000 poor households in Nyimba, Sinda Chipata and Lundazi districts, in Eastern Province, Zambia. The purpose of Financial Services and Livelihood Improvement Project (FiSLIP) is to increase household incomes and improve livelihood strategies of the targeted beneficiaries through access to financial services, diversifying income opportunities, enabling rural households to have greater economic security and reduced vulnerability to shocks and stresses. The project will support three key outputs: improved basic business skills, increased access to financial services and improved capacity of the RFDP. The main activities are business skills training, formation and training of Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs), Training of Community Agents, Formation and training of Cluster Committees (CCs) and capacity building staff and Board of RFDP.
Overall Objective
The overall objective of FiSLIP is to significantly reduce poverty levels and increase income though improving access to financial services amongst 5,000 poor households in the three targeted districts in Eastern Province by December 2018. Our target is that 75% of our target beneficiaries have an annual income of at least US$1 / day.
Specific Objective
- To improve access to financial services through formation of 300 Village Savings Loans Ass and offering financial services to 5,000 households in the target Districts by December 2016.ociations (VSLAs).
- To improve basic business Skills for 5,000 poor households through training in entrepreneurship, business skills, micro-enterprise and marketing in the target districts by December 2018.
- To enhance capacity of RFDP staff and Board members in micro finance, resource mobilization, NGO Board governance, financial management and Business Skills by December 2018.
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5. Project Name: Environmental, Forestry Conservation and Land Management Project
Budget: $133, 500 Amt Raised $5,000 Balance: $ 127,500
Overall Objective
The overall Objective of this project is to reduce poverty levels amongst 3,000 households with skills in apiculture for income generation and livelihood improvements based on sustainable natural resources management and rehabilitation of 100 hectares of degraded forest areas in Petauke, Katete and Lundazi in Lundazi District by Dec 2018
Specific Objectives:
- To raise awareness of 3,000 Households, on the values of forests and the importance of sustainable use of natural resources at community and district level by Dec 2018.
- To establish 9 community apiaries, with 900 hives and train 180 local community members in the practice of beekeeping as a means of providing personal income and reducing local poverty in the three target districts by Dec 2017.
- To promote healthy living and health standards of 3,000 households through the use of bee products such as honey in three target districts by Dec 2018.
- To establish innovative model of microeconomic enterprises in beekeeping and carbon forest management in the three target districts by Dec 2018.
- To rehabilitate 100 hectares of degraded forests, by planting 100,000 different tree species in three target districts by Dec 2018.
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6. Project Name: Gender equality, women empowerment and participation in governance and decision making
Budget: $300,000 Amt Raised $100,000 Balance: $200,000
Objective: improve capabilities of 3,200 women to have access to courts, guaranteed legal Aid, Legal representation and increase participation in local governance and decision making so that both women and men benefit and participate equally in the development process
Specific Objectives
1. To create an enabling environment for 3,200 women to access courts, legal representation and realize their rights by increasing awareness of community members, judicial workers, traditional leaders, civic leaders and police victim support units on gender, Legal Laws, Basics of Zambia Laws, Human rights, Legal systems and Land rights by Dec 2018.
2. To provide legal Aid, Legal representation and legal information to 3,200 women through trained paralegals and established legal information centres (Paralegal Desks) by Dec 2018.
3. To enhance participation of 3,200 women in local governance, leadership and decision making at community level by Dec 2018
4. To bring community 3.200 women together through formation of 20 Village Women Networks (VWN) in order to enable them engage and lobby government and traditional leaders for improved implementation process of national gender policy at local community by Dec 2018
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7. Project Name: Improving Food security through Sustainable Agriculture
Budget: $350,000 Amt raised: $0 Balance $350,000
Objective: To improve food security amongst 3,000 households in Lundazi, Chipata, Katete and Vubwi districts by Dec 2018.
Specific Objective
- To increase production and yields of Horticulture commodities, Maize, Ground nuts, Soya beans and Sunflower by 50% through water saving drip irrigation, conservation agriculture and other sustainable agricultural practices amongst 3,000 households in Lundazi district by Dec 2018.
- To develop and expand post-harvest handling technologies and storage for Maize, Ground nuts, Soya beans and Sunflower products and increase household incomes and improve livelihoods of 3,000 households in Lundazi and Vubwi districts by Dec 2018.
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Project Name: Organizational Development
Budget: $100,000 Amt Raised $0 Balance: $ 100,000
Objective:
RFDP measures it’s success by the change it makes in the lives of communities in rural areas of Zambia .If we are able to visit and distribute school books and materials to help children go to school, that is success on our part. If we are able to help families restore their livelihood that is also success! We can only do what we have promised to do only if we have an effective and efficient organizational environment-The project desperately needs a reliable office equipment and transportation-We need to purchase, Computers, Printers, Copiers, Two, 4x4 vehicles and 4 motor cycles to help us reach distant areas as we are focusing on more districts. In addition, we need to hire full time qualified staff to help us monitor the projects professionally and be accountable to our friends and donors-This project will hire qualified staff in all the projects to help us implement project activities effectively and efficiently.
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