Our 2019-2024 Strategic Plan

STRATEGIC PLAN 2019- 2024.

Approved by the Community Health Education Sports Initiative Zambia (CHESIZ) Board of Trustees on 24th November, 2018.

INTRODUCTION:

Kabwe used to be a flourishing mine town but with the closure of the mine and major supporting industries has left many people out of employment. The high levels of poverty, unemployment, inadequate recreation facilities, has led to many children and youths to engage in activities which put their lives at risk that is stealing and contracting HIV/AIDS and STIs. Excessive beer drinking, prostitution and having multiple partners are very common among children and youths in Kabwe.

It is estimated that 28% of Kabwe residents are infected with HIV/AIDS children included and on average 4510 STIs cases are reported every year in the district.

Although there are a number of awareness programs by the government, NGOs and the media, it has not led to the required reduction of street children, orphaned and vulnerable children in Kabwe, it is also evident that information about HIV/AIDS on its own has not lead to people adopting behaviors that do not lead children contracting the virus. More efforts, therefore, need to be put into prevention programs, through family empowerment and feeding programs that empower children and youths to protect them-selves from the appalling conditions which children are living in, on the street because it’s a breeding ground for diseases and a fertile ground for drug abuse and crime. Facilitating access to PSS [Psycho- Social Support] cushions Child-labor constraints. Most vulnerable households have lost the energetic young men and women through HIV/AIDS pandemic, thus leaving the elderly and the young to sustain themselves.

CHESIZ is a health oriented non-profit making participatory movement targeting women and young people that aims at creating platform/s for engaging communities in the development th October, 2009 by indigenous Zambians. Process. It was founded and registered on 14

For the past ten years CHESIZ has been an active and, we believe, effective organization in the empowerment and betterment of the vulnerable, under-privileged and those discriminated against in our target communities.

In recent months we began work on our strategic plan to cover the next Five years.

The process started with our “Listening Campaign” whereby we spoke with and listened to almost eight hundred members of the community – a broad, cross-section of people who openly and candidly shared their views with us.

It is their thoughts, opinions and suggestions on which the following plan is based.

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WHAT HAS CHIESIZ BEEN DOING?

Environmental protection through Sport: We undertook the planting of trees and encouraged conservation of our natural resources. We advocated for prudent management of natural resources and enhanced protection of biodiversity and ecological system.

Gender Equality and Gender Based Violence Program- Our team of specialist has been raising awareness and engaging the Community members, Women and Young people on the importance of Gender Equality and ending Gender based Violence (GBV). This program has been a success with the help of cooperating partners. So far we are slowly impacting and changing the thinking of many community members and the young people.

Girls Linkage through Sport: We encouraged the participation of girls in sport by organizing competitions, tournaments and fun days with girls and boys on an equal footing – mixed teams, mutual respect and partnership.

Health and Hygiene through Sport: We organized workshops to raises awareness and promote best practice in relation to HIV/AIDS, water borne diseases and malaria.

Smart agriculture/ entrepreneurship through Sport: We designed and delivered a programmes to build capacities in young people in agriculture and entrepreneurship skills. We took young people and led them through a program teaching the basics of agriculture and a further program focusing on business start-up and budgeting.

Sports development: We organized Football, Netball, Rugby, Basketball and Volleyball tournaments, practices and training sessions – for girls and boys – contributing to a greater sense of self-esteem, self-belief, confidence and empowerment

Sexual Reproductive Health Program – This program aimed at the provision of youth friendly health services for young people. We highlighted the gaps existing in the provision and access to sexual and reproductive health services and information for the rural girl child in schools and community. We attempted to provide a comprehensive program for adolescent’s focusing on Sexually Transmitted Infections ( STIs) , including HIV/AIDS, early and unprotected sex, sexual abuse, early marriages and pregnancies, drugs and alcohol abuse, accidents and violence, mental health and unsafe cultural practices.

Education support: A Program designed to encourage youth to access basic education in order to reduce illiteracy levels in the Country.

Community Services We lined up a number of activities to raise awareness on the importance of keeping our surrounding clean. We organized Youth Days slashing tall grass, picking litter, assisting in local schools and orphanages.

Human Rights, Child Safeguarding and Protection policies – This program aims at raising awareness on the importance of understanding, adhering to observing and respecting Human Rights , Child Safeguarding and Protection Policies. We are delighted to state that so far we are the Champions and Advocates in the entire Province.

End Child Marriages and Teenage pregnancies Campaign–This program aims at Educating and raising awareness on the importance of ending Teenage Pregnancies and Early Child Marriages by engaging Young people to be abstaining from Illicit Sex and bad vices that they indulge in.

NOW…..

The Next Five Years …Onwards and Upwards…Together STRATEGIC PLAN 2019 - 2024

This plan is intended to drive positive change within Community Health Education Sports Initiative Zambia and the general community while also embracing continuity. The plan provides a sharper focus to our work in the form of three community‐impact objectives, driven by the community’s needs and priorities. It requires us to rethink how we organize our time and talent, and where we invest Kwachas.

At the same time, the plan strongly reaffirms the organisation’s historical commitment to helping our community’s most vulnerable residents have access to a high quality of life. The plan strengthens our commitment to donors, non-profit organizations, and community leaders as essential drivers of innovation and positive changes in our community. Listening to the Community: How We Established Our Strategic Priorities

The Community Health Education Sports Initiative Zambia 2018 Listening Campaign involved nearly 800 individuals, including members of the public, donors, and leaders from the non-profit, business, and public sectors.

The three areas of highest concern were basic human needs, economic development, and education. And these will be our focus in the coming decade.

Objective 1: Basic Human Needs: Help ensure shelter, basic medical care, access to nutritious food, and safety for the most vulnerable residents in Kabwe and Central Province in particular.

Objective 2: Economic Opportunity: Help foster interconnected and culturally vibrant communities in which low‐income residents have the tools and opportunities necessary for jobs and careers that lead to economic self sufficiency.

Objective 3: Education: Help increase student achievement and graduation rates in targeted low‐income neighborhoods.

The following are the practical activities to help us meet our objectives.

ACTIVITIES

Guardians Empowerment Program– CHESIZ started the empowerment since 2010 and 100 Guardians have since been trained in Business Skills for the duration of 10 Days and used Concept Informal Sector Employment Promotion (CISEP) Manual. The other materials used are the International Labour Organisation, ‘Starting your Business’ Manual. The 100 trained Guardians are now running income generating activities in selling vegetables, running small stores, fish selling and sausage making. The Businesses they are doing have helped improve the families and children’s well being, some of the guardians have even supplemented on the feeding program by buying some foods and donating to the project. The guardians are also able to pay for their monthly house rent. After the completion and review of the first phase of the Guardians program, the project feels inevitable to support 200 more Guardians with entrepreneurship skills and provide them with start-up capital.

Educational Support [Back to School Program] - The Back to school program has worked so well so far as 70 Children have been Integrated into Community and Government Schools. The project under this component will support the 70 Children in the community and government schools and the 100 orphaned and vulnerable children of the bridging class at the project bringing the number to 200 Children who will be supported with educational materials. The project through this funding will support the target with School uniforms, shoes, bags, and books. The Project will also pay school fees for the Children who are in schools where project funds are required. The project is in the process of putting up a library corner for the children at the project, a room is already been found. All it needs is furniture/fittings, literature and text books.

Nutrition [Feeding] - The project offers to the orphaned and vulnerable at the Centre Breakfast and Lunch whilst attending activities. This will be done in an effort to Increase the food security among the orphaned and vulnerable children by ensuring that we secure food for the Centre for at least five years..

Social Recreation Activities [Sports] - The activity will involve various Displines, like;

Football, chess domestic pool, tennis and others. This will be done in an effort to keep the Children busy, preventing those at risk from indulging in useless vices such as drug abuse and other sexual activities, and those we are already working with to be kept busy and help them develop talents in different sporting activities. These activities will be done every Mondays, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays, Friday and Saturdays and any other day deemed OK.

Training workshops for people living with HIV/AIDS –We want to train 50 people living with

HIV/AIDS and orphaned and vulnerable youths drawn from different communities of Makululu, Bwacha, Katondo, Mukobeko, Makwati, Railways and Waya Compound. These will be empowered with knowledge, which will help other people living with HIV/AIDS and orphaned and vulnerable youths to come in the open and declare their HIV status and encourage others to go for voluntary counseling and testing.

Sensitizations Meetings with Guardians and other vulnerable youths-We will hold sensitization’s meeting with guardians and vulnerable children, leaders of other NGOs, stakeholders, health workers from clinics in a effort to ask incorporate lessons on HIV/AIDS in their organization and clinics.

📷 Hygiene

HIV/AIDS Awareness

VCT (Voluntary counseling and testing)

Psycho-social support (PSS)

Nutritional Education

How to cope with Bereavement of the orphans

How to cook, prepare cheap but nutritious food

Children Rights

Life skills

EXPECTED OUTPUTS AND OUTCOMES

➢ Increased incomes

➢ Improved nutritional status for the Vulnerable Children.

➢ Increased knowledge in savings, business, credit management ➢ Increased production in gardening activities

➢ Generally increased sustainability in communities.

. MEASURABLE IMPACT

➢ Number of orphaned and vulnerable children who will benefit from the project will increase

➢ Number of orphaned and vulnerable children and their guardians who will have access to better health and education

➢ Number of grandmothers looking after the orphans who will be able to start businesses

➢ Number of assets owned by a household

➢ Improved nutrition status for the kids

What will be achieved during implementation period?

➢ Increase the food security among the orphans and vulnerable children and the grandmothers by ensuring that we secure food for the project for at least five years.

➢ Improve the nutrition of the orphans and vulnerable children and grandmothers through the feeding program in their homes.

➢ Increase the awareness of HIV/AIDS, STIs among the children and other orphaned and vulnerable children

➢ Educate and share with children on reproductive health and life related issues

➢ Equip children with knowledge, which will help them to develop themselves and the community

➢ Identify and help develop talents in children through exposing them to different activities by the social workers at the Centre.

➢ Empower children with practical day to day skills that will enable them live more

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➢ Help children adopt positive attitudes and risk free behavior so that they become agents of change and positive peer pressure

What will be achieved beyond the implementation period?

➢ Reduced sicknesses such HIV& AIDS

➢ Sustainable development in communities

➢ Employment creation as children will be educated.

➢ Creation of wealth through trainings

➢ Income security through the empowerment program

➢ Improved Livelihoods for the Community and families.

The strategic plan is a broad road map and there is still much to be determined relative to implementation. Over the coming months, Community Health Education Sports Initiative Zambia will draw a wide range of partners, donors, volunteers, and staff into this conversations. Though not many details have not yet to be defined, here is some of what we do know.

As Community Health Education Sports Initiative Zambia focuses its resources on the three community‐ impact objectives, we will continue to honor the wishes of current donors and donors from past generations. Donor intent is paramount. We recognize that our ability to attract new donors and steward contributions from current donors has a major potential for us to increase our impact in basic human needs, economic development, and education. The work of The Community Health Education Sports Initiative Zambia Strengthening Neighborhood’s Program and Inclusiveness Project will be embedded within all three community‐impact objectives. The philosophies, strategies, activities, and expertise gained through these two programs will shape the organisation’s approach to achieving all of our community impact and partner objectives.

The Community Health Education Sports Initiative Zambia will devote itself to play leadership roles in the impact areas of basic human needs, economic opportunity, and education.

As we implement this strategic plan, The Community Health Education Sports Initiative Zambia will work with local residents, donors, and leaders who will help us craft the tactics and activities that will best achieve our community‐impact objectives.

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Appendix

STRATEGIC-PLANNING TASK FORCE AND BOARD MEMBERS.

Overview

Appendix

To further its connection to the community and to drive its new strategic plan, Community

Health Education Sports Initiative Zambia recently engaged in a four‐month Listening

Campaign throughout Kabwe. The purpose of the Listening Campaign was to gather insights from community leaders and partners about the community’s vision for what contributes to a high quality of life.

As part of the 2018 Listening Campaign, focus groups, public forums, and surveys to engage nearly 800 community leaders and partners – including business and civic leaders, community residents, current and former Organisation volunteers, non-profit professionals, Community Health Education Sports Initiative Zambia fund holders, and the general public. At every stage of the Listening Campaign, The Research Team Members asked participants to set aside their personal and organizational interests and think about the needs of the entire Kabwe community. Consensus emerged regarding the future for which Kabwe should strive:

• An educational system that produces high achievement regardless of income, race, disability, or gender.

• A diverse economy of large and small businesses that provides abundant employment opportunities.

• Human services that meet basic needs so that all Central Province residents can experience the community’s richness.

• Access to high‐quality, affordable health care that takes a preventative, holistic approach.

• Housing development that is sensitive to new and existing residents and that promotes diverse communities.

• Thriving familial networks that support intact and broken family structures.

• Transportation that is accessible and affordable to all Central

Province residents.

• Civic engagement, supported by strong, effective leaders, to address difficult community issues.

• A community that is welcoming to newcomers and immigrants in which nobody lives in the shadows.

• A collaborative philanthropic community that works to identify and attempt to fill gaps that government cannot fill.

Key Issue Areas

Respondents noted specific concerns regarding each key area. These areas are deeply intertwined and the outcomes in each affect the other.

Education: Forty‐four percent of survey respondents most commonly identified “lack of high‐ quality education” as the number one barrier to a high quality of life for all Kabwe residents. Among the challenges they identified in this area:

• Disparities in access to high‐quality education, based on income and race/ethnicity

• High drop‐out rate.

• Relatively low funding for Zambia’s educational system.

• Lack of emphasis on early childhood and after‐school programs

Basic Needs: A large proportion of Listening Campaign respondents noted that Kabwe residents have difficulty meeting basic human needs. Respondents noted a number of barriers to a high quality of life in this area, including access to health care (identified as a key barrier by 36.3 percent of respondents), lack of affordable housing (34.5 percent), and hunger (16.6 percent). These indicators were cited as the signs of that need:

• Poverty‐stricken neighborhood’s

• Childhood hunger

• High rate of homelessness

• Lack of affordable housing Economic Opportunity: Respondents

Also identified economic opportunity and employment as a major barrier to a high quality of life. Fully one‐third of respondents (33.2 percent) noted that lack of high‐quality jobs is an area of concern. Challenges related to economic opportunity in Central Province include:

• High unemployment

• Disparities in economic opportunity based on socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity

Growing financial gaps between rich and poor

Inability to attract new industries and large companies to relocate in Kabwe.

• A workforce that is educated, but largely imported rather than home grown Other Key Areas of Concern: Community members also identified a number of other, related areas of concern, closely linked to those described above.

• Transportation

• Family Support

• Immigration

• Gentrification and Segregation

How Philanthropy Can Make a Difference: The survey asked members of the community to consider how the philanthropic sector – foundations, non-profit organizations, corporations, and other donors who give to help meet community needs – could best take action. Among their suggestions:

Is unable to fill.

• Work to fill gaps in basic needs and human services that government

Issues.

• Identify community issues and provide funding to address those

• Advocate for community needs and particular population segments.

Collaboration.

• Act as conveners of different community groups to encourage

• Take risks to support innovative solutions to community problems.

Regional Demographics

Appendix C SIGNFICANT EXTERNAL TRENDS

• Members of minority racial and ethnic groups will account for a larger percentage of population in the coming decade.

• Growth of suburban poor populations will create more demand for

Affordable and accessible transportation and support services, as most services are concentrated in the urban Centre.

• Increasing number of number of people with mental and physical disabilities.

• Immigrants and their children will make up a growing percentage of the

• Aging of baby boomers will lead to significant growth in the senior

Population over the next ten to fifteen years, impacting regional health care, employment, transportation, and housing. Disparities

• Growing disparities in income, education, health, and incarceration

Rates. These disparities are largely correlated to race, disabilities, culture, and geographic location.

• Increasing numbers of people living at or below poverty levels in Colorado.

• Increasing education gap for minorities and poor. Government and

Public Policy

• Decreases in all levels of government funding for basic services and safety net programs.

• Disintegration of the social contract; erosion of trust in public institutions and officials.

• Increased political, racial, and economic polarization combined with a lack of “leadership from the middle” and diminished civility in public discourse.

• Policy makers and citizens focused on immediate and urgent

Priorities rather than planning for the generation not yet born. Economic Development • New policies are projected to lead to increased demand for transit‐oriented development (TOD); higher‐density, mixed use development within walking distance of transit stations.

Philanthropy

• Younger donors are increasingly interested in engaging in their

Own, high‐ impact philanthropy, investing in innovative approaches, and tracking the results.

• Broad impact of technology on how issues and opportunities for

Giving are communicated, how giving is conducted, and how stories are shared. Competition

• Increased competition for donor investments from financial services sector and social-investing alternatives.

• Increased competition from technology platforms that connect

Donors directly and instantaneously with organizations and causes. Environmental

• Climate change and possible shortages of water and energy to meet the future needs.