| Approval Date | 14 Oct 2015 |
| Signature Date | 29 Mar 2016 |
| Planned Completion Date | 31 Dec 2023 |
| Last Disbursement Planned Date | 08 Aug 2022 |
| Sovereign / Non-Sovereign | Sovereign |
| Sector | Social |
| DAC Sector Code | 11330 |
| Environmental Category | 2 |
| Commitment | U.A 22,431,919.13 |
| Status | Completion |
The Zambia Skills Development and Entrepreneurship Project – Supporting Women and Youth (SDEP-SWY) aims to promote job creation, gender equality and poverty reduction. It seeks to improve the livelihood opportunities of Zambia’s working poor, especially in rural areas and will benefit particularly, women and youth through enabling infrastructure and entrepreneurship for MSME business development. The Project will support the Government in its drive to address youth unemployment and reduce rural poverty and underemployment by creating about a million jobs in the medium term through support to the implementation of the Industrialization and Job Creation Strategy to ultimately promoting inclusive growth. Interventions are essentially focused on development of: (i) industrial cluster infrastructure and enabling environment to enhance MSMEs competiveness and (ii) the cassava value chain sub-sector targeting mostly the rural poor. The Project will be implemented over 60 months beginning January 2016.
The project sector goal is to contribute to job creation, promotion of gender equality and poverty reduction in Zambia supporting in particular women and youth through skills development and entrepreneurship. The specific objectives of the project include (i) to increase MSME productivity and competitiveness through improved enterprise infrastructure and entrepreneurship and business skills development; and (ii) to increase income for farmers and rural employment through the development of the cassava value chain.
The target population to benefit directly from the project will be mainly be youth and women with emphasis on urban and rural poor. A total of 17, 000 youth and women located in the project geographic scope will benefit from additional off-farm jobs to be created. 1000 MSMEs are expected to be reached with business development services, appropriate technology and facilitating their access to credits or loans. 200 Business Development Service providers for MSMEs are expected to be trained to promote standards for quality service delivery and the development of business skills for supported small businesses. In addition, the project will facilitate women cooperatives and provided them with business and technical skills to pilot fortified garri processing for 10 schools under the school feeding programme. A total of 500 women in cooperatives and women led MSMEs will be supported in garri processing activities. Indirectly, the total population of 14,638,505 is expected to be eventually reached by the project interventions.
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Funding
African Development Bank
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Implementing
Government Of Zambia
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| IATI identifier | 46002-P-ZM-IE0-002 |
| Last Update | 24 Mar 2023 |
| Name | Fredrick Masinde WAMALWA |
| f.wamalwa@afdb.org |
| Country | Zambia |
| Coordinates | Location Name |
|---|---|
| -13.63333 32.65 | Chipata |
| -10.21289 31.18084 | Kasama |
| -11 29 | Luapula Province |
| -15.4067 28.2871 | Lusaka |
| -15.24835 23.12741 | Mongu |
| -11.19976 28.89431 | Mansa |
| -12.95867 28.63659 | Ndola |
| -12.1688 26.38938 | Solwezi |