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

Asian Development Bank adopts Portable solar pump in e-market

Mar 19, 2025

The Affordable portable solar irrigation pump and sustainable distribution system for small-scale farmers in developing countries, will be part of the Asian Development Bank e-market. Presentation Friday 27 March, register at:...

Portable solar pumps for all of Zambia

Dec 20, 2024

Quick refresher Jacana has been working on improving and refining affordable solar pumps for several years now. The first solar pumps were installed in boreholes near homes in 2020. This had to be done near the home, because if you installed them anywhere else, the...

Images speak louder than words

Nov 1, 2024

Petauke case study video Jacana has been working with Skat Foundation from Switzerland for years. In June 2024, Skat made a video about practical examples in Petauke and surroundings. The team in Petauke worked very hard to realize Petauke SMART training center. The...