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Training organic pest management and fertilizer production

Training organic pest management and fertilizer production

Organic agro training High cost of farming inputs like fertilizer and pesticides, remain the biggest obstacle for African smallholder farmers to expand. Jacana through a project named ‘From auto pilot to Champion farmer’ sponsored by AFAS Foundation, conducted a...

Video tutorial making a rope pump

Video tutorial making a rope pump

In large parts of the world, people do not give a second thought to where the water from the tap comes from. It is so taken for granted that there is access to water at any time of the day. Thankfully. Unfortunately, the reality for many people in other parts of the...

Register for Borehole siting training

Register for Borehole siting training

It is a known fact that limited access to water plays a key role in development. Good located boreholes create access to ground water, reduce poverty and increase health. Drilling boreholes is a costly and risky business. High quality borehole siting can reduce that...

Worldwide interest in affordable water solutions is rising rapidly.

Worldwide interest in affordable water solutions is rising rapidly.

Worldwide interest in affordable water solutions is rising rapidly. Opportunities for you to learn and share: Event: UN Water Conference, Book: Self-supply Filling the gaps, Detailed study: SMART Approach. Next week UN Water Conference will be held in New York. This...

From Helper to Driller

From Helper to Driller

Since 2017, Jacana has trained several entrepreneurs in manual borehole drilling. There are currently 20 drillers active. When a driller receives an assignment to drill a borehole, his team consists of a fellow driller and two to four helpers. The driller in charge...

SMARTechs now also in the North-Western province

SMARTechs now also in the North-Western province

DAPP has several projects all over Zambia. Recently, they started a project for water and sanitation in the north-western part of Zambia. For that project, DAPP called in the help of Jacana. One of the objectives of the project is to provide affordable water solutions...

EMD Won 1st price

EMD Won 1st price

Eastern Manual Drilling cooperative (EMD) trained by Jacana SMART Center in Zambia won the 1st price yesterday at the provincial agro-show. EMD also presented them selves and won prices at the district agro-shows in Petauke, Chipata and Lundazi. Well done guys!

Borehole siting (VES) by Fredrick Phiri

Borehole siting (VES) by Fredrick Phiri

Jacana has trained and guided many small-scale entrepreneurs in recent years with the aim of enabling them to expand their businesses. Frederick Phiri is one of these entrepreneurs. Frederick is 23 years old and lives in Chipata with his father, mother, 3 brothers and...

VACANCY: Manager at Eastern Manual Drilling, Chipata, Zambia

VACANCY: Manager at Eastern Manual Drilling, Chipata, Zambia

Position: Manager Location: Chipata   Background Eastern Manual Drilling Co-operative (EMD) is founded in 2018 and has 26 members. EMD is drilling boreholes manually and installs pumps. In the last 3 years more than 400 boreholes were drilled and 70.000 people...

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...

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...

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...

Construction of Jacana Business Centre

Construction of Jacana Business Centre

After a year of hard work, Jacana Business Center is finally ready. With a team of 33 people, we worked on it for a year. Of course we had setbacks, but overall everything was achieved within the set goals. How it all started In 2016 Jacana moved from central Zambia...

Vacancy: Technical field officer at Jacana in Petauke, Zambia

Vacancy: Technical field officer at Jacana in Petauke, Zambia

Position: Technical field officer in Water Sector Location: Starting in Petauke and maybe later during the year other districts in Eastern Province Start Date: 1 September 2021 Background Jacana supports small Zambian entrepreneurs in realizing their plans to grow....

A new solar driven pump era has started

A new solar driven pump era has started

1. How much water do you need per day? and 2. What is the pressure your pump must deliver?   Each pump sales person should ask these questions. In most cases, your first estimated answer will be way off. As a result, the pump you are buying is too expensive. 1....

Dutch Wash sector about Jacana SMART Centre

Dutch Wash sector about Jacana SMART Centre

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

Event 2020-2021

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

We are hiring

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...

Very affordable solar pumps

Very affordable solar pumps

Last year we were able to test some very affordable solar pumps. One of them was very good (€ 35). This year we are again testing a range of other solar pumps of similar design. The demand for affordable solar pumps is high and once again thanks to Marie-Stella-Maris...

New SMART Centre in the make

New SMART Centre in the make

Why Jacana Business Centre? Just a quick refresher: why is Jacana building a Business Centre? In this centre we want to give small scale entrepreneurs a chance to expand their business with the help of Jacana. This can be in the provision of office and/or work space,...

Making borehole siting machines

Making borehole siting machines

You can imagine that the equipment for borehole siting (Vertical Electric Sounding or VES) has been used intensively in recent months. Not only within our own province for the clinics, but even beyond on a two day drive from Lundazi, 10 sites have been measured....

Water for all Health centres in Eastern Zambia

Water for all Health centres in Eastern Zambia

The fact that most hospitals in Zambia do not have respirators is terrible at this time. But the fact that more than 10% of the health centres in Eastern Zambia, an area the size the Netherlands, has no water to wash hands, is a disaster. If not addressed, these...

Jacana SMART Centre Zambia and EMD contribute against COVID-19

Jacana SMART Centre Zambia and EMD contribute against COVID-19

Situation in Zambia Unfortunately, the first people in Zambia tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. All kinds of measures have been announced by the President, one of them is washing hands and keeping a distance. This will be quite a challenge for Zambian...

Moses Super Slim Solar pump

Moses Super Slim Solar pump

All part are ​worldwide ​available in ​common hardware shops ​and shops that ​sell car ​parts. Cost about ​$100 including ​solar panel. The pump is ​ideal for very ​narrow tube ​wells, starting ​at 2" (50mm) ​casing and ​bigger. ​Suitable for ​wells that ​produce very...

1 Year EMD and their visits to Finland

1 Year EMD and their visits to Finland

This month Eastern Manual Drilling (EMD, trained by Jacana SMART Centre Zambia) celebrates its first year of existence and what a year it was: EMD drilled 148 boreholes and provided almost 10,000 people with affordable access to water. EMD now buys pipes in bulk. Last...

Electronic surveying to find best borehole location

Electronic surveying to find best borehole location

Our Jacana employees and drillers from Eastern Manual Drilling have recently been trained in the electronic surveying of soil structures with Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) and Horizontal Electrical Profiling (HEP). Randy Jones and Ray McKee from the USA revealed...

SMART Centres at World Water Week 2019

SMART Centres at World Water Week 2019

This #WWWeek SMART Centres present "Water entrepreneurs" (25 Aug) + "Sanitation entrepreneurs" (28 Aug) and more @siwi_water talk to us at our both.Read more at: www.worldwaterweek.org

Introducing EMAS Technologies in Zambia

Introducing EMAS Technologies in Zambia

Allow me to introduce myself: My name is Bert Pfleger member of the EMAS board (Germany). Together with Wolfgang Buchner, who is the founder of the EMAS training centre and has more than 40 years experience in the Self-supply, we traveled to Zambia last...

Training entrepreneurs for water in Lundazi & Chasefu

Training entrepreneurs for water in Lundazi & Chasefu

In April & May 2019, a very enthusiast and assorted group of 4 welders and 8 drillers has been trained in Lundazi, Zambia. The 12 participants were selected in several steps from a pool of 45 candidates. After interviews and visits to workshops, we...

WaterAid and Jacana work together on SDG6.1

WaterAid and Jacana work together on SDG6.1

WaterAid Zambia and Jacana signed a Memorandum of Understanding for five years. Both parties foresee challenges realising Sustainable Development Goal 6.1 by 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all.The...

And the Jobena award 2018/2019 goes to…

And the Jobena award 2018/2019 goes to…

To our great joy we can announce that Jacana has been chosen as the winner of the 2018/2019 Jobena Award.This is a huge recognition and boost for Jacana's work. Jobena Foundation was founded in 1996 with the aim of supporting cultural projects and...

Tutorial manual drilling, SHIPO method

Tutorial manual drilling, SHIPO method

Learn manual borehole drilling in tutorial below. Jacana SMART Centre trains manual drillers of  boreholes. It’s very difficult to explain what is happening deep under the surface (40m).This tutorial is a combination of videos and animations and shows also...

Twee voor de prijs van een!

Twee voor de prijs van een!

De Kerstman shop-t al Jaren online, zo ook dit jaar, gewoon in de winkel die hij gewend is. Echter dit jaar doet hij dat via deze link https://www.sponsorkliks.com/winkels.php?club=6138 zodat een gezin in Afrika ook van zijn gulle gift geniet.En het...

Lieve Sinterklaas,

Lieve Sinterklaas,

Lieve Sinterklaas, Nog even snel een kado kopen?Zonder naar de winkel te lopen? Regel het hier on-lijn,zonder dat er extra kosten zijn. Steun de mensen op ' t Afrikaanse continent,terwijl u vriend en familie verwend. Het kado is op tijd,en een Zambiaans...

SMART symposium 13-16 Nov.

SMART symposium 13-16 Nov.

SMART symposium Simple, Market-based, Affordable, Repairable, Technologies. A practical approach to reach SDG 1, 2, 3, 6 and 8 November 13 to 16, 2018 in Mzuzu, Malawi SMART stands for Simple, Market-based, Affordable and Repairable...

Jacana SMART Centre at WEDC 2018

Jacana SMART Centre at WEDC 2018

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Provincial Agriculture and Commercial Show

Provincial Agriculture and Commercial Show

Jacana and trained entrepreneurs from the water sector will demonstrate their knowledge on provincial agriculture and commercial show in Chipata stadium next Friday and Saturday, July 6 and 7.

Manual drilling training

Manual drilling training

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Vacancy: Field officer at Jacana

Vacancy: Field officer at Jacana

Position:          Field officer in Water Sector Location:         Starting in Chipata and maybe later during the year other districts in Eastern Province Start Date:       1-8-2018   Background Jacana supports small Zambian entrepreneurs in realizing...

Zambia lost a great driller

Zambia lost a great driller

With the deepest heartfelt condolences to the family and friends, we wish to announce the passing on of our beloved and hardworking driller Mr. Steven Zulu who passed away on Friday 13th April 2018. Steven was trained by Jacana in manual drilling, as an...

Self-supply is rolling

Self-supply is rolling

Jacana SMART Training Center trained a year ago welders and drillers to expand their businesses. The welders have learned how to make a rope pump using local materials and the drillers how to drill boreholes manually up to 40 meters deep. In addition, they...

Jacana lost a great man

Jacana lost a great man

We regret to announce the passing on of our treasurer Mr. John Vaessens, who died on Sunday 1-4-2018. John was involved in Jacana Netherlands from the very beginning. He was working as our treasurer with a lot of dedication, passion and selflessness. Our...

Start Water for Khova ward

Start Water for Khova ward

It rained last night and although we have been in Mkwekwe before, still I am a bit afraid the road might be impassable this morning. But it's not too bad, the car smoothly glides from pothole to pothole. We are not the only one struggling on the road. At...

International training course

International training course

International training course “Market-led SMARTechs for water & agriculture” 19th to 23rd of March 2018 in Mzuzu, Malawi The SMART Centre SNV are organising an introductory short course to provide policy makers and practitioners in water...

Zambia is under attack from Cholera

Zambia is under attack from Cholera

Entrepreneurs for Water disinfect open wells for free. Now let's work together and see how we can solve the issue. People need water and will have to use the water that is available to them. Reality is that not everybody has pipeline water and many simply...

Donation Marie-Stella-Maris

Donation Marie-Stella-Maris

Several communities have worked hard constructing toilets. They are officially declared Open Defecation Free. Now clean water is coming their way thanks to a donation from the "Marie-Stella-Maris foundation".

SMART Centres @ World Water Week Stockholm

SMART Centres @ World Water Week Stockholm

SMART Centres present at World Water Week in Stockholm, 27 August – 1 September, 2017 visit Booth nr 18. Learn about SMARTechs like Manual drilling, handpumps, groundwater recharge…  

Jacana at Agri Pro focus is a network meeting

Jacana at Agri Pro focus is a network meeting

Agri Pro focus is a network for business minded farmers. On 24 and 25 August 2017 more than 500 local farmers met in Chipata. Jacana SMART Centre was present, drilling in the garden of the hotel, demonstrating a working rope pump. Local trained entrepreneurs pitched...

Jacana SMART Centre presents @WEDC 2017

Jacana SMART Centre presents @WEDC 2017

Jacana SMART Centre presents @WEDC: "How can Self-supply help reaching #SDG6?" Tuesday 25 July – afternoon 15.30 – 17.00 Loughborough University UK, Session C5: Room WPT003 Espresso session 1 Let's talk at the exhibition site SMART Centre Group.

Follow our drillers live

Follow our drillers live

SMART Centre Jacana is monitoring all new boreholes and pumps. Most pumps are partly sponsored but already now, 3½ months after training, Self-supply started. Two boreholes with pumps are privately bought. Have a look at https://jacana.help/mwater and witness the...

Creating a Show case area

Creating a Show case area

Jacana selected some villages around Chipata where 50 partly sponsored pumps will be installed. Families will be the owners of the pumps and are responsible for the maintenance. These families have a plan to earn some money with the pump, because they get access to...

Welders started making pumps

Welders started making pumps

The welders produced the first rope pump in their own workshop. Jacana monitors the quality and if the pump is of good quality, the welders get money for production of four more pumps. The first pump will be installed in front of their workshop as an example. The...

29 Nov 2016 SMART Centres at RWSN conference

29 Nov 2016 SMART Centres at RWSN conference

Several SMART Centres have been allocated time to share their experience at Rural Water Supply Network forum (RWSN) to be held on 29th Nov – 2nd Dec: Presentations: “Drilling & Hand-dug wells. Manual SHIPO and Mzuzu drilling)” Tuesday 29 Nov at 11:15-13:000 in the...