Zambia Anglican Council

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Zambia Anglican Council

• SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
• A Vision for Social Transformation
• TOWARDS ACHIEVING MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

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Planning a Response

• Understanding the context
• Challenges of Poverty, Illiteracy, High maternal
  and child mortality rates, High incidences of
  malaria, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and gender issues
• Mission of the Church
• Role of the church in Social Development

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Planning a Response cont----

• Stating the Objectives
• Our Vision, Our Hope.
• In order to.
• We will
• Articulating Churchs commitment to social
  development
• Church gives a voice to the voiceless

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The Churchs Response

• Our Vision
• To carry out a holisitic ministry, so that each
  person may have life, and have it abundantly
• Our Hope
• Is to commit our selves to this work in order to
  bring lasting and sustainable results
• We Will
• Join with partners at every level commit to
  increasing our capacities to answer His call be
  the voice of the voiceless across our
  communities empower the most vulnerable to find
  their own voice through training, education,
  health information and services, and economic
  empowerment.

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Strategies used towards achieving MDGs

• Integrated health and development program
• Operation through the framework of partnership
  and strong Government links.
• Enhanced skills development.
• Advocacy for resource mobilization within and
  outside the communities.
• Select project sites where there is great need,
  i.e. high incidence of malaria, HIV, hunger, etc.
• Prioritization of community needs.
• Streamlining gender in all our programs.
• Specifically male participation in reproductive
  health.
• Focused pastoral work/evangelism at grass root
  level.
• Access to information.
• Access to basic education
• Putting in place strategies for sustainability
• Monitor the progress in conjunction with the
  community.

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Steps in making the MDGs work

• Using participatory learning approach facilitate
  the following
• Identify common community needs .
• Prioritize community needs
• Develop simple and measurable community
  interventions.
• Mobilize resources.
• Develop simple community monitoring tools.
• Formulate community action groups/committees.
• Full community participation in program
  implementation.

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Case study of Zambia

• Steps taken in Zambia.
• In an integrated approach identified seven goals
• gteradicate poverty and hunger
• gtprovision of basic education
• gtwomen empowerment
• gtreduce maternal and child mortality
• gtcombat malaria, HIV/AIDS tuberculosis
• gtdevelop local, national and global partnership
• With involvement of government and communities
  selected project sites.

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Prioritized Activities within seven selected
goals that communities were ready and able to
undertake

• 1. Combat malaria, HIV/AIDS tuberculosis
• Malaria
• - nationwide program has been put in place in
  critically affected places.
• -sensitization has been widely done on causes,
  signs and symptoms and prevention of malaria
  including use of LLITNs .
• -free nets distribution to the vulnerable
  groups, i.e. pregnant women, children under 5 and
  the chronically ill patients.
• - Intermittent Presumptive Treatment for the
  pregnant women. (e.g. in one site the incidence
  of malaria has reduced from 483/1000 to 317/1000,
  a reduction of 166)
• -training of community based malaria agents (
  401 trained).
• -malaria control action groups in place who
  report to the diocesan development office.

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Malaria in Zambia

• Endemic to the entire country
• Cases have tripled since 2000
• It affects 483 per 1000 people
• Responsible for 20 of maternal mortality
• 50 of childrens outpatient visits are due to
  malaria

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HIV/AIDS in Zambia

• Zambia HIV and AIDS estimates, end 2003
• 16.5 HIV prevalence rate (15-49 years)
• 89,000 AIDS deaths (adults and children)
• In 2002, the high mortality rate among adults has
  increased the number of orphans to approximately
  1,000,000

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Combat Malaria, HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis Contd

• HIV/AIDS
• gt Home based care
• -trained 540 care givers
• -food distribution to critically ill patients
  (supporting 1,017)
• gt ARVs (5,100 clients)
• -support to people living with HIV/AIDS (income
  generating activities and skills development,
  2,010 families)
• -formation of positive living support groups and
  circle of friends.
• gt referral
• gt Voluntary Counseling and Testing (37,504 passed
  through our counseling Centres).
• -trained 97 psycho-social counselors
• gtcare of OVCs
• -school support to 1170 children
• -feeding programs
• gttrained 197 TB treatment supporters

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Poverty in Zambia

• In Zambia, 63 of the population lives in rural
  subsistence farming communities
• After two years of good harvests erratic rains
  means that this harvest may be the lowest on
  record for example 2006/2007 farming season has
  experienced floods in most parts of the country.

Human Development Index Zambia is ranked 154 out
of 174 countries
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2. Eradicate poverty and hunger

• Food security empowerment scheme
• - seed program support to rural farmer groups
• -1884 beneficiaries each with one hectare of
  land which produces a minimum of 90 x 50kg bag of
  maize. (our staple food).
• 3. Provision of basic education
• -community schools (27)
• -adult literacy Centres(5)
• -church basic schools (3)
• -high schools (3)

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4. Women empowerment

• Land ownership (facilitated 2,700 women getting
  land)
• Skills development (5 tailoring and designing
  Centres)
• - 520 graduates, some have started own
  businesses.
• -tie and dye 375 graduated.
• Income generating Improving home economic
  status
• -restaurants
• -hair saloons
• -goats, piggery and chicken rearing
• -hammer mills
• -carpentry, brick making and joinery
• -credit schemes/facilities (micro credit)

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5. Reduce maternal and child mortality

• Trained 257Traditional Birth Attendants.
• Instituted community based referral using scotch
  carts.
• Formed nutrition groups for malnourished
  children.
• Cooking demonstrations and feeding programs.
• Formation of male motivators groups to advocate
  for safe motherhood.
• 6. Develop local, national and global partnership
• -Linked with Governments District Health
  management Teams
• -Linked with Churches Health Association of
  Zambia
• -Linked with local leaderships, i.e. chiefs,
  councilors, Resident Development Committees,
  local NGOs etc
• -Linked with Global partners, e.g. Episcopal
  Relief and Development

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Major achievements

• Strengthened the mission of the Anglican Church
  in Zambia.
• It has added value to evangelism and pastoral
  work.
• Has enhanced skills development and created
  demand for capacity building.
• Improved community schools
• (grades 1-6)