Jacana trains small African Entrepreneurs

in business, financial and marketing skills.

 

Jacana creates Role models

Entrepreneurs are visible and escape poverty on their own.

 

Jacana provides free training materials

Entrepreneurs are visible and escape poverty on their own.

 

Our work is based on Strength

Entrepreneurs are visible and escape poverty on their own.

 

SMART

Simple, Market based, Affordable and Repairable Technologies

 

Jacana trains Pump production

using local materials.

Water users

Training the local private sector in

Simple, Market based, Affordable, and Repairable Technologies

We train and guide small scale Zambian entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs for Water

who make Simple, Market based, Affordable, and Repairable Technoligies (SMART) that provide water.

Water for Entrepreneurs

who use water in their business.

Follow the work of Entrepreneurs for Water

See how they provide services to partly sponsored programmes and fully paying customers (Self-supply).

News

Newly qualified SMART water entrepreneurs in Petauke

Newly qualified SMART water entrepreneurs in Petauke

After six months of hard work, the water entrepreneurs in Petauke have been trained and are now ready to drill boreholes and install pumps independently without supervision.The tools for manual drilling and the rope pumps are supplied by the trained welders and...

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By and for Zambian water entrepreneurs

By and for Zambian water entrepreneurs

Every now and then we are asked why trainers come from “far”. And by “far” we mean the Netherlands, USA, Tanzania and Malawi, among others. The reason for this is simple: we first need to train local trainers and they must have sufficient experience. When we started...

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Jacana SMART Centre Petauke started

Jacana SMART Centre Petauke started

Covid-19 restricted our training programmes, but risks have reduced and we are allowed to train again. Just in time for the Jacana SMART Centre in Petauke to kick-off. Over the past two months, a lot of hard work has gone into providing the office in Petauke (which is...

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