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

Dutch Wash sector about Jacana SMART Centre

Feb 1, 2021

As one of the COVID-19 responses the Jacana SMART Centre in Zambia took the initiative to provide water to Health Centres in Eastern Zambia. This initiative was supported by Wilde Ganzen and several other donors. The Dutch Water sector wrote an news article about this...

Event 2020-2021

Jan 1, 2021

2020 was a challenging year for all of us. Covid-19 has turned the whole world upside down. Fortunately, in Zambia, we have been less affected than expected. Why, is still a great mystery, but we hope that it will remain this way. This does not alter the fact that...

We are hiring

Dec 23, 2020

Position: Field officer Apply before: 15 Jan 2021 Location: Chipata, Zambia Background Jacana supports small-scale Zambian entrepreneurs in realizing their plans to grow. Jacana has two departments one is focussing on general entrepreneurs and the other on...