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

Jacana SMART Centre presents @WEDC 2017

Jul 23, 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

Jul 15, 2017

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

Apr 15, 2017

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...