Infrastructure businesses in Zambia

Systems like roads, bridges, buildings, railway networks, sewage, water, cell towers and more.
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Prospero Zambia
Capacity building
Lusaka
Prospero Zambia seeks to create and strengthen sustainable business partnerships between Zambian small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and large corporations. Their business linkage program provides access to procuring goods and services locally with a socially responsible, gender-sensitive and environmentally sound approach.
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Conservation Lower Zambezi (CLZ)
Community support
Lower Zambezi National Park
CLZ supports communities in surrounding GMAs in partnership with the local Community Resource Boards (CRBs). CLZ assists by providing solutions to Human-Wildlife Conflict, collecting information on HWC incidences, and providing a communication link between local communities and wildlife authorities. CLZ also engages in alternative income projects and Conservation Agreements to help the community benefit further both directly and indirectly from the environment. CLZ currently employs 88 people in total— a majority of whom are hired from the local communities.
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Conservation Lower Zambezi (CLZ)
Environmental Education
Lower Zambezi National Park
Through educational lessons and activities on school visits to CLZ’s education centre and on outreach visits to the schools, CLZ aims to raise awareness and to build a generation of local community members that take pride in Zambia’s natural heritage and feel responsible for its protection.
Summer Pines
Chisamba Environmental Park
Lusaka
Chisamba Environmental Park is an eco-tourism venture run in partnership with the neighbouring village community. It is situated just 2 kilometres from Kabangwe Hills Enviro Centre in Chisamba District of Zambia. Visitors experience the natural flora and fauna of the area as well as a taste of traditional rural life.
Restless Development empower young people with the skills, inspiration and resources to take up productive livelihoods and employment opportunities that contribute not only to their household income, but to the economies of their wider communities and countries.
Catholic Relief Services Zambia
Agriculture sector
Lusaka
Agriculture is one of the main sources of income in Zambia with about 70% of the Zambian population dependent on farming. The CRS works to empower rural communities to engage in market equability, profitability and sustainability so that rural families can earn a basic income.
Vine Management Services
Small-scale farmers and co-operatives
Lusaka
Vine Management Services has developed an empowerment concept that seeks to work with co-operatives and small-scale farmers in Lusaka and Chongwe areas, with the idea soon to be extended to other parts of the country. The company has been mobilising financial resources to develop projects aimed at accelerating research and fact-finding.
WEAC Zambia
Capacity building
Lusaka
WEAC Zambia designs capacity building solutions that are tailored to fit the specific needs and realities of each business. The centre starts by conducting a comprehensive assessment of a business to better understand its strengths and challenges before it recommends solutions that will help it grow.
Good Nature Agro
Capacity building small-scale farmers
Chipata
Good Nature Agro conducts an outgrower program for legume seeds that give small scale farmers access to inputs, access to information, and access to a ready market. The company promotes and conducts training on improved farm practices and deliver a farmer-friendly loan of seeds and additional inputs.
Twinning Center
Capacity building
Lusaka
AIHA's HRSA-supported HIV/AIDS Twinning Center Program (TCP) has established and managed a wide range of capacity programmes. AIHA utilizes a wide range of evidence-based, cost-effective approaches for health systems strengthening (HSS), developing human resources for health (HRH), and other needed capacity building.
Catholic Relief Services Zambia
Capacity building
Lusaka
Catholic Relief Services has partnered with more than 40 local organisations in Zambia to implement quality development programs. CRS believes that capacity strengthening of local partners is fundamental to achieving sustainability. The aim is to foster strong local ownership by helping to build the capacities of partners.
The Trust at Munda Wanga Environmental Park has a vision to become a world class environmental and education resource in Zambia. The environmental education centre hosts over 40,000 children and teachers every year, providing hands-on educational programmes about the environment of Zambia.
Snakes Alive Zambia Education & Conservation (SAZI)
Promoting a positive attitude towards snakes
Lusaka
Snakes Alive Zambia Education & Conservation (SAZI) wants to change the traditional thinking about snakes and reptilia in general. This is because they are important in the environment in that they are efficient predators that play a strong role in the “food chain” by controlling the numbers of pests such as rodents (rats, mice, shrews, voles, etc.), amphibians such a frogs, lizards, birds, other snakes, etc.

Infrastructure

Systems like roads, bridges, buildings, railway networks, sewage, water, cell towers and more.
NGOs research to facilitate policy development, building institutional capacity, to help people
Improving leadership, information, technical, monitoring, political and managerial skills
Organizations helping farmers develop skills, credit facilities, buy equipment and inputs
Promoting economic development, structural change, improving potential for the mass of the population

Infrastructure is the basic physical and organizational structure needed for the operation of a society or enterprise or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function, a framework supporting an entire structure of development. The structures that support a society, such as roads, bridges, water supply, sewers, electrical grids, telecommunications, and so forth are the components of interrelated systems providing commodities and services essential to enable, sustain, or enhance societal living conditions. Infrastructure facilitates the production of goods and services, and also the distribution of finished products to markets, as well as basic social services such as schools and hospitals.

Infrastructure systems such as roads, bridges, buildings, railway networks, utilities, sewage, water, cell towers and more are essential for enabling productivity in an economy. Most infrastructural projects are either completely funded by the government or heavily subsidized. However, in this category of Infobwana, you will find various companies that offer a wide selection of infrastructural development services.

Infrastructure enables trade, powers businesses, connects workers to their jobs, creates opportunities for struggling communities and protects the country from an increasingly unpredictable natural environment. From private investment in roads, telecommunication systems, broadband networks, rail lines, energy projects and pipelines, to public spending on transportation, water, buildings and parks, infrastructure is the backbone of a healthy economy.

Important national goals also depend on infrastructure. The economy needs reliable infrastructure to connect supply chains and efficiently move goods and services across borders. Infrastructure connects households across urban areas to higher quality opportunities for employment, healthcare and education. Clean energy and public transit can reduce greenhouse gases. This same economic logic applies to broadband networks, water systems and energy production and distribution.

Infrastructure can be classified into two different lines:

  • Soft infrastructure - Human infrastructure such as efficient labour, knowledge creation, the way of governing a public and corporate system, political application of good technology etc. fall under the category of soft infrastructure.
  • Hard infrastructure - Physical infrastructure such as road, rail lines, telephone and internet lines etc. which belong to the category of hard infrastructure may be measured by physical units of output.

Conclusion

All countries have infrastructure in some form, which can include these systems:

  • Roads, tunnels, and bridges, including the Interstate Highway System
  • Mass-transit systems (e.g., trains and rails)
  • Airport runways and control towers
  • Telephone lines and cellphone towers
  • Dams and reservoirs
  • Hurricane barriers
  • Levees and pumping stations
  • Waterways, canals, and ports
  • Electrical power lines and connections (i.e., the national power grid)
  • Fire stations and equipment
  • Hospitals, clinics, and emergency response systems
  • Schools
  • Law enforcement and prisons
  • Sanitation and waste removal facilities for solid waste, wastewater, and hazardous waste
  • Post offices and mail delivery
  • Public parks and other types of green infrastructure.