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USAID/Zambia Country Profile

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For the decade ending in 2011, Zambia was one of the world’s fastest growing economies and achieved lower-middle income nation status. Since 2011, Zambia’s economic development has consistently declined and it is currently ranked fourth in the world in income inequality

Provincial

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USAID/Zambia Central Province Fact Sheet

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The aptly-named Central Province borders eight of Zambia's other nine provinces. It boasts a diverse landscape, including the Blue Lagoon National Park, the Lunsemfwa River Valley, and Lukanga Swamp.

USAID/Zambia Copperbelt Province Fact Sheet

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Aptly named for the mineral whose reserves in the province are some of the world’s largest, Copperbelt Province is also one of the world’s largest producers of processed copper, Zambia’s most important export. Copper mining has been associated with this region since the pre-colonial era. Beyond the mining industry, the Copperbelt boasts several important natural wonders, including Lake Chilengwa, Kapisha Hot Spring, and Chembe Bird Sanctuary.

USAID/Zambia Eastern Province Fact Sheet

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Best known for the spectacular Luangwa Valley, Eastern Province boasts abundant wildlife, the dynamic Luangwa River system, and fertile, productive farmlands. Eastern Province shares a border with Malawi to the east and Mozambique to the south.

USAID/Zambia Luapula Province Fact Sheet

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With abundant natural and vast water resources, wetlands and waterfalls, Zambia’s Luapula Province boasts some of the most unique wildlife and fish species of all the provinces.

USAID/Zambia Lusaka Province Fact Sheet

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Lusaka Province is the most urban of Zambia’s provinces. Home to the nation’s capital, Lusaka, the province is the county’s primary economic and industrial hub.

USAID/Zambia Muchinga Province Fact Sheet

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Muchinga is Zambia’s newest province.

USAID/Zambia North-Western Province Fact Sheet

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Zambia’s North-Western Province is the source of the mighty Zambezi, Africa’s fourth-longest river, which begins its journey to the Indian Ocean in North-Western’s Kalene Hills.

USAID/Zambia Northern Province Fact Sheet

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Known as the Bemba Heartland, Northern Province is the home to some of Zambia’s most notable features. The world’s longest freshwater lake, Lake Tanganyika, the historical location demarking the last shot fired in World War One, Kalambo Waterfall, and the source of the Congo River are all found there.

USAID/Zambia Southern Province Fact Sheet

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Southern Province is home to the mighty Mosi-oa-Tunya, “The Smoke that Thunders” in the local Tonga language (Victoria Falls), Zambia’s most notable landmark.

USAID/Zambia Western Province Fact Sheet

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Dominated by the Barotse floodplains, the Zambezi River, and the Kalahari Sands, Western Province serves as a vital water reservoir for Zambia’s human population and as migratory lands for wildlife.

Sector

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Luangwa Livelihood and Conservation

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The USAID Luangwa Livelihood and Conservation project aims to enhance the resilience and health of natural resource-dependent ecological and human communities in the Luangwa Valley of Zambia. Under the Health Ecosystems and Agriculture for Resilient Thriving Societies (HEARTH) Global Development Alliance, this project maintains and improves the population size of key wildlife species and ensures that important landscapes and forests are under effective management. 

USAID/Zambia Health Office Fact Sheet

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With the understanding that no country can be self-reliant without a healthy population, USAID works closely with the Government of the Republic of Zambia to strengthen the health system at national, provincial, district, and community levels.

Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Activities

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Democracy Strengthening in Zambia

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The electoral environment in Zambia is framed by several interrelated components: gaps and inconsistencies in the legal framework; decreasing public confidence in the impartiality, effectiveness, and credibility of electoral institutions; lack of inclusion in the political process of historically marginalized groups; and, an increasing need to mitigate election-related violence and to promote a peaceful political environment.

Local Impact Governance

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Zambia has a significant need to expand the ownership base for development with resources to match. Strengthening high-impact governance at the local level, where Zambians confront gaps in services and quality, is a promising path toward self-reliance.

Open Spaces

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For a healthy democratic state that upholds participation, transparency, and accountability, Zambian actors across media, government, and civil society need to ensure an enabling environment exists to both protect and promote independent and diverse voices.

Revenue for Growth Fact Sheet

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Zambia is currently facing dueling crises - struggling with unprecedented debt distress in the midst of severe economic shocks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Unsustainable borrowing, combined with high expenditure on civil service and deficiencies in revenue generation have led to high national debt. To help generate revenue, the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) will need to significantly increase efficiency and compliance in tax collections while rebuilding a culture that productively engages the private sector in formulating more equitable and broad-based tax policy initiatives. The Revenue for Growth Project aims to help Zambia improve domestic revenue mobilization (DRM) and expand the fiscal space for investments in public service delivery and poverty reduction.

USAID/Zambia Bright Spot Fact Sheet

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Democratic openings are fragile and too often fade away with little chance of return. USAID is committed to supporting these democratic bright spots where governments, civil society, and citizens can seize democratic opportunities to enact reforms and deliver political, economic, and development gains.

USAID/Zambia Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance

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The political system in Zambia has real potential to hold those who wield power accountable and promote citizen-responsive governance. USAID’s Political Participation and Leadership project works with national democratic champions to promote an inclusive, productive political system that can advance and sustain Zambia's long-term prosperity and stability.

USAID/Zambia Local Partnerships Fact Sheet

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USAID’s work is more effective, resilient, and equitable when local partners play a lead role in identifying sectors, planning programs, implementing projects, and evaluating progress.

Zambia Political Participation and Leadership

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The political system in Zambia has real potential to hold those who wield power to account and to promote citizen responsive governance. USAID’s Political Participation and Leadership project works with national democratic champions to promote an inclusive, productive political system that can advance and sustain the long-term prosperity and stability of Zambia.

Economic Development, Environment, and Food Security Activities

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Scaling Up Nutrition Technical Assistance

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Malnutrition and stunting impair growth and development in children as a result of poor nutrition, repeated infection, and inadequate psychosocial stimulation. Affecting 35 percent of Zambian children under age 5, stunting can cause poor cognition and educational performance along with other harmful lifelong effects.

Alternatives to Charcoal

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The USAID Alternatives to Charcoal (A2C) project works to reduce deforestation related to the production of charcoal. USAID A2C takes a market-driven approach to this challenge by catalyzing a shift in urban household cooking away from charcoal towards private sector-led, low-emissions technologies and fuels.

Development Finance Corporation

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Through utilization of Loan Guarantees, USAID partners with the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) to lower the risks for financial institutions enabling their lending to promising businesses, individuals, and small enterprises across different sectors including agriculture and clean-energy agriculture solutions. Improving access to productive loans develops well-paying jobs, new economic opportunities, and sustainable long-term development. 

Eastern Kafue Nature Alliance

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Kafue National Park is Zambia’s largest and oldest national park. Together with the surrounding game management areas, which buffer the national park, this 69,000 square kilometers landscape is one of the largest conservation areas in the world and boasts the highest diversity of hoofed animals of any conservation landscape in the world.

Economic Development & Environment

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USAID’s approach to reducing rural poverty in Zambia is based on three pillars: enhancing the business-enabling environment, strengthening rural enterprises, and sustainably managing Zambia’s natural resource base.

Emerging Farmers Partnership GDA

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Zambia’s development is promising but faces many challenges. Urban economic growth has boomed; however, rural areas have stagnated in poverty.

Enterprise Development and Growth Enhanced

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Many Zambian agricultural enterprises struggle to access loans and financing, lack business management and technological resources, and/or have limited access to economic markets.

Integrated Land and Resource Governance

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Historically, land in Zambia has been perceived as abundant and widely available; however, changing demographics, a growing middle class, and increased allocation of land for investment has led to land conflicts and increased pressure on the management of wildlife and forest resources.

Luangwa Livelihood and Conservation

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The USAID Luangwa Livelihood and Conservation project aims to enhance the resilience and health of natural resource-dependent ecological and human communities in the Luangwa Valley of Zambia. Under the Health Ecosystems and Agriculture for Resilient Thriving Societies (HEARTH) Global Development Alliance, this project maintains and improves the population size of key wildlife species and ensures that important landscapes and forests are under effective management. 

United States Forest Service Participating Agency Program Agreement (USFS PAPA)

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Zambia has a high deforestation rate, losing approximately 0.32 percent of its forests annually. Forests provide important habitats for wildlife and are a natural defense against climate change.

Education Activities

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Accountable Governance for Improved Service Delivery (AGIS)

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Through AGIS, USAID is promoting strong and sustainable oversight of public resources to advance better health and education outcomes.

Edufinance

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Globally, public education systems are increasingly challenged to meet the educational demands of growing populations. In Zambia and many other countries, public resources alone are insufficient to enable access to quality education.

Let's Read

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The USAID Let’s Read project partners with the Zambian Ministry of Education (MOE) to improve reading outcomes for more than 1.4 million children in pre-primary (kindergarten) through Grade 3, reaching all public and community schools in five provinces of Zambia.

Transforming Teacher Education

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Transforming Teacher Education is the U.S. government’s signature higher education partnership in Zambia.

Health Activities

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Accountable Governance for Improved Service Delivery (AGIS)

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Through AGIS, USAID is promoting strong and sustainable oversight of public resources to advance better health and education outcomes.

Adolescents and Children, Hiv Incidence Reduction, Empowerment, and Virus Elimination (Achieve)

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Due to the impact of HIV and AIDS, Zambia faces the ongoing challenge of caring for a large number of vulnerable children and adolescents. Over 30 percent of households in Zambia currently care for or foster orphaned children.

Community Radio Program

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The Community Radio Program (CRP) works to improve the health of women and children through radio serial dramas addressing topics including  family planning, nutrition, gender-based violence, malaria and HIV.

DISTRICT COVERAGE OF HEALTH SERVICES (DISCOVER-Health)

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With an HIV prevalence rate of 11.1 percent, Zambia receives significant support from USAID under the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

Empowered Children and Adolescents

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In Zambia, it is estimated that 1.3 million orphans and vulnerable children and adolescents (VCA) are infected with, or affected by, HIV. The USAID Empowered Children and Adolescents Project provides holistic, needs-based services to vulnerable children, adolescents, and their caregivers.

Eradicate Tuberculosis

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In 2018, USAID announced the launch of The Global Accelerator to End Tuberculosis (TB). This important initiative focuses on leveraging additional resources from countries, private-sector partners, and other local organizations to meet the United Nations’ target of treating 40 million infected people by 2022.

Evidence for Health

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The USAID Evidence for Health project is designed to strengthen overall monitoring, evaluation, and research in Zambia’s health sector for improved evidence-based decision-making and planning. 

GLOBAL HEALTH SUPPLY CHAIN - PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

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USAID’s Global Health Supply Chain Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project works to ensure an uninterrupted supply of health commodities to and within Zambia.

Impact Malaria

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Impact Malaria works across 23 districts in Central and Copperbelt Provinces to support the Zambian National Malaria Elimination Center’s (NMEC) strategic plan. In alignment with NMEC’s priorities, project activities focus on providing effective and efficient diagnosis and treatment to patients at health facilities and in communities.

Open Doors

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The USAID Open Doors project focuses on increasing access to, and use of, comprehensive HIV prevention, care and treatment services for key populations in Zambia.

PAMO Plus

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Despite steady advances in the fight against malaria over the last decade, The World Health Organization’s 2018 World Malaria Report indicated that between 2017 and 2018, the global number of malaria deaths remained the same.

Scaling up Early Childhood Development in Zambia

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Nurturing and supporting childhood development is a priority for USAID. With U.S. Government assistance, over the past two decades, Zambia has made tremendous progress in reducing the mortality of children under the age of 5, with a reduction from 197 to 61 deaths per1,000 live births between 1996 and 2018.