Programme
of Support for Poverty Elimination and Community Transformation
(PROSPECT)
Zambia
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Partners |
Start
date
04/1998 |
End
date
03/2003 |
Commitment
(£)
10,874,000 |
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Lusaka
City Council |
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Ministry
of Local Government |
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Settlement
Residents Development Committees (now formally accepted as the
lowest tier of local government) |
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Lusaka
Water and Sewerage Company |
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DFID |
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Collaborators |
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CARE
has played an active role in facilitating relationships between
the RDCs and wider government, and the parastatal and private
utility sectors |
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Contacts
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Darren
Hedley, Director INSAKA (Initiative for Sharing Knowledge in
Action), dhinsaka@zamnet.zm |
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Rose
Chimansa, Project Manager PROSPECT, chimansa@zamnet.zm |
 Purpose
A five year infrastructure focused livelihoods improvement
project in 14 urban settlements in Lusaka and Livingstone,
Zambia; funded by DFID.
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Lessons: |
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PROSPECT
Project Summary
on CARE Zambia project website HTML
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Community
Empowerment and Scaling-up in Urban Areas: The Evolution of
PUSH/PROSPECT in Zambia
James Garrett April 2004 Full Paper PDF
Brief PDF |
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Moving
into Reality: Building a Culture of Engagement to Support the
Emergence of Negotiated Development. Governance in
Cities: Learning from Livelihoods Projects Workshop Report,
Joseph D. Stuckey, CARE International, March 29-31, 2004, Lusaka,
Zambia WORD |
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Strengthening
urban livelihoods, Zambia PUSH II and PROSPECT case study
Darren Hedley and David Sanderson, CARE International August
2000 PDF |
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Use
of Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches
Prospect
initially evolved out of an urban food for work intervention
following the droughts of the early 1990s. CARE's PUSH I project
was a food relief project, PUSH II (mid-1994 - mid-1997) saw
the evolution away from food relief to the development of
local institutions capable of planning and managing infrastructural
development activities, including large water schemes, as
well as local savings associations to support individual livelihood
activities. Prospect as a five year expansion of PUSH II,
which will benefit eventually communities with over 600,000
people in them.
The
project is based on CARE's Livelihoods Approach. The process
of infrastructure development and its subsequent management
is seen as a vehicle for promoting livelihoods by combining
training and access to income generating activities (i.e.
building household level assets).
Addresses barriers to access by improving existing structures
and processes by demonstration of an activity reliant
on utilising capacity. Project aims to withstand shocks and
stresses [vulnerability] through better quality water
supply and more self-reliant community structures.
Participatory livelihood analysis and needs assessment
used as starting point in each community.
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