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PCZ’s mission is to empower communities in Zambia to improve health, protect and nurture girls and boys, eliminate hunger, and overcome hardship.

ECAP II: Empowered Children and Adolescents Program

ECAP II: Empowered Children and Adolescents Program

In 2020, PCZ was awarded the groundbreaking Empowered Children and Adolescents Program II (ECAP II) grant. In March 2025, the ECAP II program was transitioned to the State Department under the United States Embassy in Zambia, Health Coordination Office.  PCZ, as prime partner on ECAP II leads the implementation of the project in 12 districts in Central and Southern Provinces with uniquely qualified local partnership organizations including Bwafwano Integrated Services Organization (BISO) and the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB) serving as service delivery partners, and BlueCode Systems, serving as an Information Communication Technology (ICT) partner that is responsible for developing, refining, and maintaining the electronic Case Management System, and subsequent transition of the system to the Ministry of Health.
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Empowered Children and Adolescents Program Plus (ECAP+)

Empowered Children and Adolescents Program Plus (ECAP+)

Funded by the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, the three-year—June 2023 to May 2026—ECAP+ program is a complementary program to the ECAP II program. Through ECAP+, PCZ has expanded the ECAP model to hot spots with high HIV incidence among children and adolescents and underserved nine high HIV burden districts in Muchinga, Northern, and Western Provinces. Through the ECAP+ program, PCZ is currently reaching 13,895 VCA and caregivers including 3,295 AGYW, with 332 AGYW Living with HIV and 962 AGYW are at elevated risk of acquiring HIV. PCZ is fostering the partnership between the two programs to ensure resources are pulled and strategies, programs, and operations are aligned to efficiently maximize impact and ensure VCA, and their families are reached with holistic services cutting across their health and socioeconomic needs.
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Community-Led Monitoring and Routine Immunization Community Systems Strengthening through Strategic Partnership with CHAZ:

Community-Led Monitoring and Routine Immunization Community Systems Strengthening through Strategic Partnership with CHAZ:

With support from Zambia’s largest non-government health provider, CHAZ, PCZ is receiving strategic funding from the Global Fund and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and is leveraging its community health systems strengthening model to integrate community systems strengthening for Community-led monitoring (CLM) for malaria and routine childhood immunizations, including Human papilloma virus (HPV) and COVID-19 vaccinations. As part of CLM for malaria, PCZ is mobilizing and strengthening the capacity of communities and malaria services users in 10 districts in Muchinga and Northern Provinces to collect actionable evidence to guide the delivery of quality malaria services and help to improve programs and policies. As part of the Gavi-supported immunization program, PCZ is supporting the improvement of coverage and equity for immunization in Mumbwa and Shibuyunji districts in Central Province.

MALARIA - Community Led Monitoring (CLM)

MALARIA - Community Led Monitoring (CLM)

Project Concern Zambia (PCZ), in partnership with the Churches Health Association of Zambia (CHAZ), is implementing the Malaria Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) Project, funded by the Global Fund (May 2024- Dec 2026) , while PCZ acts as the Sub-Sub-Recipient (SSR). The Malaria CLM initiative aims to enhance malaria services' accessibility, availability, affordability, acceptability, and quality. By engaging communities in monitoring, the project ensures services are responsive to their needs and promotes transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
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Integrated Disease Surveillance for Priority Notifiable Diseases

Integrated Disease Surveillance for Priority Notifiable Diseases

In Northern and Muchinga Provinces, PCZ is strengthening community health systems through targeted Community-Based Volunteer (CBVs) training in disease surveillance and pandemic preparedness. Since the initiation of the program in 2024, PCZ has trained 64 CBVs and 17 Environmental Health Technologists (EHTs) with 20 primary health care facilities reporting through the trained CBVs and EHTs. PCZ has strengthened the capacity of the CBVs and EHTs in Community-Based Surveillance (CBS) and Event-Based Surveillance (EBS). PCZ has deployed national standardized reporting tools to the CBVs and EHTs. The joint training between CBVs and EHTs has fostered teamwork and reinforced shared accountability in surveillance efforts.

Bayer Social Corporate Responsibility Program:

Bayer Social Corporate Responsibility Program:

Through this innovative partnership that has been founded on the values of Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) as a pathway to self- reliance, Bayer has provided PCZ with funding to establish a primary health care center in Munga Ward, Kabwe District, where Bayer has also launched a multi-million dollar maize seed factory. The primary health care (PHC) initiative will be owned, led and driven by the Kabwe District Health Office (DHO) and Munga Community members. PCZ will support the design and deployment of a PHC program based on the proven PCZ-PHC model that empowers local authorities and communities to timely identify healthcare needs in their communities, and through a collective multisectoral effort, strengthen PHC systems to sustainably address health issues and critical contextual socioeconomic issues that are determinants of health.
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