About

The World Food Programme (WFP) in Zambia is implementing a five-year Country Strategic Plan (2023 – 2028) that reflects its commitment to strengthen government's capacities to meet its national priorities through stronger systems, expertise, and resources for implementation.

This strategy represents a decisive shift towards providing innovative, sustainable, upstream technical assistance to support nationally owned solutions. The strategy is based on Sustainable Development Goals 2 and 17 and aligned with the United Nations sustainable development cooperation framework for Zambia for 2023–2027 

Sectors and Areas of Specialization

• Cross Sectoral Areas 

  • Gender equality and women empowerment 

  • Training, capacity building and capacity development 

• Livelihoods 

  • Co-existence with local communities 

  • Self-reliance

  • Smallholder agricultural market support 

  • Technical and vocational education and training 

• Nutrition 

  • Nutrition – general

Project Scope 

• The programme has four components:

  • Build agricultural capacity with climate-smart approaches suitable for refugee contexts.

    • The CP will support refugee and host community farmers through training in climate-smart agricultural practices to increase resilience to climate shocks. This will include the provision of agricultural inputs (such as seeds, tools, and irrigation equipment), promotion of a community seedbank for continued seed availability, capacity building in water management systems to support all year-round crop production, post-harvest handling, food processing and preservation and ongoing technical support to enhance food production and productivity. Post harvest management practices and locally appropriate and adaptable technologies will be promoted to enable refugee and host community households to store their harvests to enhance food security and benefit from higher commodity prices for the sale of excess produce. Trainings shall be designed and implemented in a manner inclusive of people with disabilities. Moreover, the CP is expected to identify and address gender-specific power dynamics in agricultural practices, meaning going beyond ensuring minimum percentage of (young) women participating, but aiming at empowering (young) women and facilitating their meaningful participation.

  • Facilitate financial inclusion and financial literacy actions among refugees and host community households.

    • The activities the CP will support will include facilitating the formation of savings groups and conducting financial literacy trainings in collaboration with key government Ministries and private sector financial service providers. These interventions will target and enable viable refugee and host community households to enhance capacity to invest in productive livelihood activities and assets, increase incomes and build resilience to both economic and climatic shocks. In addition, savings groups will be leveraged as platform to support the integration of other activities including nutrition integration, gender and disability inclusion actions. To complete this component is the need to build capacity in business management. Additionally, the CP will promote post-harvest loss (PHL) reduction through training on improved storage techniques and introduction of low cost, locally appropriate technologies such as solar dryers.

  • Develop and enhance market systems that promote social cohesion, contribute to increasing incomes and enables the integration of refugees with their host communities through livelihoods activities.

    • The CP will facilitate the development of market linkages between refugee and host communities as well as with other market actors. Key activities will include training in commodity aggregation, business skills development, contract management, negotiation skills, financial literacy and the promotion of savings groups. The CP will also facilitate value chain development, link small-scale farmers to buyers, and foster opportunities for income diversification through alternative livelihoods. The CP is expected to implement gender transformative approaches that go beyond participation quotas. This includes mentorship programs for young women, leadership and entrepreneurship training and access to productive assets. Male engagement sessions will be conducted to challenge restrictive gender norms and promote shared decision-making.

  • Address root causes of malnutrition through nutrition integration, social and behaviour change (SBC) interventions and sustainable food systems development.

    • The CP will support integration of nutrition activities within the cash-based transfers, financial interventions, climate smart interventions and market systems. These nutrition activities will aim to promote optimal nutrition practices and behaviours that contribute to better nutrition and health outcomes of pregnant and lactating women, children under five, adolescent girls, school learners and other nutritionally vulnerable groups These will include social and behaviour change (SBC) activities, such as nutrition education, cooking demonstrations, and promote utilisation of food to ensure diverse diets with a special focus on locally available foods. In addition, the CP will support the school feeding programme through provision of technical assistance to school authorities within and around the settlement, including helping the schools to develop and manage school gardens or production units, promoting adoption of guidance on menu development, and supporting commercializing of school production units to generate income for the schools. The CP should also have the capacity to engage local leadership so that there is a well-defined component of community contribution to the management of the school gardens. This includes identifying and addressing harmful gender specific power dynamics related to nutrition, including the division of labour on household level impacting nutrition, e.g. decision-making power, feeding practices, time poverty, overcoming restrictive gender roles and stereotypes.

Funding Information

• Indicative Budget: 85000.00000

Geographic Focus

• Zambia 

  • Luapula

Expected Results

• The expected outcomes of the project include:

  • Strengthened agricultural capacity and increased climate resilience for both refugee and host community farmers.

  • Diversified livelihoods and sustainable income opportunities reducing dependence on food assistance.

  • Transitioning of refugees from reliance on humanitarian assistance to self-sustaining livelihoods, enabling long-term food security and self-reliance. 

  • Strengthened social cohesion between refugee and host communities through integrated economic activities. 

  • Improved nutrition status among vulnerable groups, especially children under five and pregnant and lactating women, and adolescent girls through various nutrition interventions.

Eligibility

• Technical Proposal: Completeness of response, overall coherence between the call for proposal requirements and submitted proposal.

• Sector expertise and experience

  • Experience and expertise in implementing livelihoods, agricultural development, school feeding, and/or nutrition programs, particularly in refugee settings

• Operational Capacity: Proposed approach and methodology for carrying out the tasks with demonstrated ability to manage integrated projects, with sound financial management and accountability systems. Physical office presence located near the Mantapala Refugee Settlement (e.g., Nchelenge or Kawambwa) is essential

• Cost-effectiveness

Post Date: July 08, 2025