Zambia. Grey Crowned Cranes are well protected in Zambia’s National Park network. Liuwa National Park, with the highest population of Grey Crowned Cranes is well managed with good support too from Africa Parks. Lochinvar and Blue Lagoon National Parks, straddling the Kafue Flats are less well managed. South Luangwa National Park is very well managed and strongly protected. However, conservation efforts in these protected areas are mostly focused on large mammals and little attention is given to birds in general. Thus there is insufficient support in conservation efforts aimed at safeguarding the Grey Crowned Crane populations. Geothermal mining is under consideration for Lochinvar National Park on the Kafue Flats, and the potential for other such unsustainable developments within National Parks is of concern.
Zambia. The project is working with the Ministry of Health to integrate nutrition services into HIV care to improve nutritional status of HIV clients. USAID ASSIST Country Improvement Plan Design Design Design continues iteratively throughout the project Implementation Continuing activities Year Upfront design, implementation and scale-up with sustainability in mind Sustainability Upfront design with scale-up in mind Scale-up Continuing activities Upfront design, implementation and scale-up with institutionalization in mind Institutionalization Year Learning: Knowledge Management & Research U USAID ASSIST Services SAID ASSIST can accept field support and strategic element group fund- ing to apply improvement science to achieve better outcomes in support of USAID objectives. The project’s country-level tech- nical assistance emphasizes not only better results, but sustained improvement at scale and institutionalizing improvement through competency development at the pre- and in-service levels as well as engaging with host-country governments at the policy level. Country programs developed under USAID ASSIST use a deliberate, up-front design strategy to systematically address key questions related to the evidence base for achieving improvements in the focus area of the work and the implementation strategy for the work planned, including technical content, improvement strategy, human performance factors, linkages to other health systems strengthening efforts, and gender considerations. As depicted in the figure below, the deliberate design of country improvement programs under USAID ASSIST also address: • How the improvement strategy will create the conditions for sustaining results after the project’s support is completed • Scaling up the improvements in care to the rest of the health system • Building capability within host country institutions to be able to conduct other im- provements without external assistance— making improvement a permanent, institutionalized part of delivering health services. USAID ASSIST country improvement xxxxxx- xxxx also address the deliberate design of the learning that will be accomplished through the work and how knowledge management, research, and evaluation activities will be incorporated into each country program. The project will enable the flexible application of evidence-based improvement ap- proaches within a given context to increase the likelihood of achieving the best possible outcomes while building the improvement compete...
Zambia. See details in section 6 above regarding clearing of invasive species from important sites for waterbirds. Zimbabwe Habitat restoration by BirdLife Zimbabwe (BLZ) in the Driefontein Grasslands Ramsar Site and IBA has restored at least 50 hectares of wetlands between January 2020 and March 2022. BLZ, working closely with the Environmental Management Agency and Gutu Rural District Council, has managed to build local capacity in sustainable wetland management. BLZ additionally monitors indicator wetland flagship species (cranes) in this area.
Zambia. This year, BirdWatch Zambia has plans, through its partnership with the International Crane Foundation and WWF-Zambia, to tag the cranes on the Liuwa plains and Kafue Flats in order to study their movements and behaviour. For over 50 years, Crowned Cranes have not been observed on the Barotse floodplains, being mostly restricted to wetlands of the Liuwa Plains. However, due to the connectivity of Liuwa Plains, Barotse and Kafue Flats, there is potential for migration of this species across landscapes.
Zambia. Zambia is the biggest producer of copper in Africa. producing about 880 000 tonnes of copper in 2021 (Sasu, 2023). Copper is the most commonly used conductor material in the manufacture of electrical equipment (electrical wire and cables) due to its efficiency in conducting electricity. The vast majority of downstream companies, such as Metal Fabricators of Zambia Plc (ZAMEFA), rely on the copper they source from local mines to convert products into copper wires, low-voltage cables, and wire rods (World Bank, 2011). Zambian firms, including ZAMEFA, Non-Ferrous Metal Works Zambia Limited, and Morganite Zambia Limited, have some manufacturing capabilities along the electrical equipment value chain as they can produce low- and medium-voltage power cables, bare copper products, general wire insulated, electrical switchgear, motors, starters, and switchgear (Xxxxxx and Xxxxxxxx, 2013). These local firms even go so far as to produce other crucial parts, such as metal fabrication, rod, and aluminium, which are used as materials in making the electrical components. Copper cables and wire produced by ZAMEFA dominate the export market because of its sales. Main exporting countries include the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Africa and Equatorial Guinea. In 2023, total export sales of copper products generated from ZAMEFA’s two largest customers amounted to ZK1 585 831 million, of which ZK1 147 762 million was for copper rods and ZK438 069 thousand was for wires and cables (ZAMEFA, 2023). Graph 1 presents Zambia’s exports of electrical machinery and equipment from 2013-2022. It illustrates Zambia’s top six exported products for electrical machinery and equipment: insulated wires and cables, electrical transformers, and electric motors and generators. 60 Electrical apparatus 50 Electric accumulators, incl. separators 40 Electrical machines and apparatus 30 Electric motors and generators 20 Electrical transformers, static converter Insulated wire and cables 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 USD millions Graph 1: Zambia’s exports of electrical machinery and equipment and parts, 2013-2022 Source: Calculated from ITC Trade Map data. Downloaded from htps://xxx.xxxxxxxx.xxx in March 2024. In terms of trade, ZAMEFA imports other important inputs such as plastic compounds from Mauritius, Malaysia, the US, South Africa, and Europe for wire insulation (Sutton and Langmead, 2013). Another imported input is enamel wire. Enamel wire is a crucial part ...
Zambia. Invasive species have spread across many wetlands in Zambia, affecting important sites for waterbirds. BirdWatch Zambia (BWZ) is involved in documenting primary drivers for invasive species, designing, implementing and sharing techniques to control and eradicate invasive alien species, and expanding invasive species control efforts to multiple sites that are under threat. Currently, the organisation is implementing invasive species control projects at two Ramsar Sites, which are among Zambia’s major wetlands and Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs) as well as important stopover sites for migratory birds: The first of these projects involves the biocontrol of Salvinia molesta on the Lukanga swamps. BWZ has been working on the Lukanga swamps to control Salvinia molesta since 2013. After manual control failed in 2013, the organisation received funding from the Darwin Initiative to initiate the biological control of the weed in 2017. This has seen some parts of the swamps completely cleared of the weed, resulting in improved habitat for waterbirds. However, there are still areas and other important wetland habitats that are infested. There is consequently a need to expand on the current interventions by identifying and mapping all possible sources and infested areas and initiating control measures. The second project involves the manual control of Mimosa pigra on the Barotse floodplains. In 2022, BWZ received funding for this project from WWF. To date, at least 18ha of the weed has been cleared out of the target of 100ha. Zimbabwe Efforts to remove invasive species within protected area waterbodies are addressed in the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) Strategic Plan 2019-2023.
Zambia. The species occurs at least in some years in the Barotse floodplain, Liuwa Plain, Kafue Flats, Bangweulu swamps and Simungoma on the Zambezi floodplain. Seasonal movements have been shown by Xxxxxxxx (1989). Although there are no breeding records, Xxxx Xxxxxxx suspected that they may now be breeding at Lochinvar as a short-billed juvenile was seen there in 1997. Some 21 birds were seen there in January 2003 by Xxxx Xxxx and about 100 birds were at Liuwa National Park in June 2003; these included 54 in one flock (Xxxxx 2003). Xxx Xxxxxxxxxx (pers. comm.) has had no recent sight records from the Kafue Flats but some birds were seen there by Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx (pers. comm.) during crane surveys. The estimated Zambian population ranges from a few hundred (Xxx Xxxxxxx) to 500-1000 birds (Xxxx Xxxxxxx, in BLI 2000). Zimbabwe: The species is sparse and uncommon in Zimbabwe although a very small population appears to be resident in Kazungula Swamp in the extreme west of the country, bordering on Botswana. Between 1978 and 2005 there were 33 records of the species in Zimbabwe, mainly of single birds but occasionally of up to four individuals. Eleven records come from the Kazungula to Victoria Falls area of the Zambezi River but most are from Mashonaland, particularly the two dams on the Manyame River, Lake Chivero (Lake XxXxxxxxx) and Lake Manyame (Darwendale Dam/Lake Xxxxxxxxx) built in 1973 (see MacCallum 1990). These dams have attracted 14 records. The first record in Zimbabwe was of a bird at Rainham Dam close to Harare in 1978 with another record 10 years later from this dam. Occasional Slaty Egrets wander into other areas of the Mashanoland Highveld Zimbabwe when non-breeding; four records come from Ngamo Pan in Hwange National Park, one from Kazuma Pan on the Botswana/Zimbabwe border south of Kazungula and one bird was seen on the middle Zambezi River in the north. In the Kazungula to Victoria Falls area of the Zambezi River where Slaty Egrets may breed records come from all months except February but mostly in March and April and from August to November. Up to four birds were seen there in March to May 1987. Mashonaland records are mainly from October to April with singles in May, June and September. For important sites in each country see Appendix 3. Population size and trends are poorly understood because of the dispersed nature of this species in often inaccessible floodplains. Table 2 provides some estimates from casual records and from a concerted effort...
Zambia. (a) Support for: (i) building public health human resource surge capacity at the national and regional levels; (ii) the preparation of a comprehensive human-resource needs assessment for disease surveillance and response activities in Zambia; and (iii) the development and delivery of training in critical skills related to laboratory systems (including occupational health and safety, and environmental and social safeguards), disease surveillance, outbreak investigations, emergency responses, data management, and risk communication.
Zambia. (a) Support for: (i) the design, construction, equipping, furnishing and set-up of a BSL-3 national reference laboratory, including an animal laboratory, establishment of a proficiency testing system and panel production center, a biomedical equipment maintenance center, a biobank center, and a central warehouse; (ii) the establishment of a PHEOC (iii) the establishment of an ICT center (including hardware and software) data management, communication and security systems; and (iv) the design and construction of offices and training facilities for ZNPHI and the SA- RCC.
Zambia. (viii) Nigeria; and (ix) any other countries and areas of the world that may be included by way of mutual agreement of the parties pursuant to paragraph 3(b) infra."
