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

Worldwide interest in affordable water solutions is rising rapidly.

Mar 20, 2023

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

Mar 7, 2023

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

Aug 22, 2022

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...