Project Concern Zambia

Project Concern Zambia (PCZ) is a local NGO. PCZ strengthens the capacity of community-based organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations and collaborates with the Government Republic of Zambia (GRZ) to address the health and socioeconomic needs of vulnerable children, adolescents and their primary caregivers and make them resilient to overcome hunger and hardship. PCZ work focuses on contributing to the achievement and sustenance of HIV epidemic control and addressing the upstream vulnerabilities that impede progress towards this achievement such as poverty, gender inequity, and addressing emerging epidemics that might further hinder progress such as COVID-19. PCZ is currently implementing the five-year (October 2020-September 2025) Empowered Children and Adolescents Program II (ECAP II) funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) with support from the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). PCZ, as the prime partner, leads the implementation of the USAID ECAP II project in 14 districts in Central and Southern Provinces of Zambia. The goal of the program is to improve the resilience and health outcomes among Vulnerable Children and Adolescents (VCA) via a sustained, locally led VCA comprehensive case management service delivery system to ensure VCA are healthy, safe, schooled, and stable…and ultimately ensure epidemic control and sustenance. The Empowering Children and Adolescents Program Plus (ECAP+) grant is funded by the Leona and Harry Helmsley Foundation and is coordinated and aligned with Government Social Protection and Livelihood resources. The goal of ECAP+ is to help accelerate the efficient realization of the overall ECAP program outcomes for VCAs and their families implemented in Central, Southern, Western, Northern, and Muchinga Provinces of Zambia and will help to strategically place Zambia on the path of ending the HIV/AIDS pandemic as a public health threat by 2030.