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Sector Aid Program -- Zambia
Summary

I. Basic data

Sector(s): Health and Education
Title: Sector Wide Programme
Donor country/ organization: Ireland (Irish Aid)
Beneficiary countries / regions: Zambia
Implementing agencies in beneficially countries / regions: Ministries of Health and Education in Zambia
Duration: 1997-2002 (first phase).
Starting Date: 1997
Project / Program budget: Ireland's Bilateral Aid Fund -- allocation of IR£800,000 in 1998, expenditure of IR£508,000 in 1997.
Finance / Type of cooperation: Grant

II. Project / program description

  1. Objectives
    To contribute to the development of comprehensive and integrated primary health care and primary education systems in Zambia.
  2. Activities / contents
    The Sector Wide approach (SWAp) has emerged as an appropriate mode for aid, to ensure efficient and effective use of local and external resources. This approach requires that the Government maintains control of the process and that the implementation strategy is worked out in dialogue with all major stakeholders.
    Irish Aid contributed to the District "Basket" Fund of the Ministry of Health in 1997 and in 1998 contributed £50,000 to the preparatory fund for the development of the BESSIP (Basic Education sub-sector investment programme).
  3. Expected outcomes / impacts
    Improvement in the health and educational standards of the poorest sections of the Zambian population.
  4. Features in line with the Agenda for Action
    The Sector Wide Programmes are in line with the policies set out in "Challenges and Opportunities Abroad: White Paper on Foreign Policy" published by the Government of Ireland in 1996.

III. Contact point:

Zambia Desk, Bilateral Aid Section, Development Cooperation Division, Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin

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