PROGRAMME III: Livelihoods and Climate Change Adaptation Programme (LCCAP)

PROGRAMME III: Livelihoods and Climate Change Adaptation Programme (LCCAP)

Caritas Zambia strategic issues have been clustered around four main areas which also form Caritas Zambia programmes namely; Democracy and Governance, The Church and State, Economic and Social Accountability, and Livelihoods and Climate Change Adaptation. In addition, there is a fifth programme which provides support to all the other four programmes and is called Organisational Development.

Livelihoods and Climate Change Adaptation Programme (LCCAP)

The aim of this programme is to have improved livelihoods (increased income, food security and nutrition).  The LCCAP areas of focus are:

  • Sustainable Agriculture:  The focus is on the promotion of sustainable farming methods such as conservation and organic agriculture, promotion of farming as a business, improved access to irrigation water and technologies and promotion of pro poor agriculture policies.
  • Climate Change Adaptation:  The focus is on promoting Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate change adaptation strategies in all the 11 dioceses.
  • Alternative Livelihoods: This area will continue to focus on the promotion of entrepreneurship skills development and income generating activities among diocesan animators.

About Caritas Zambia

Caritas Zambia is a Catholic Organisation that is an integral structure of the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops (ZCCB). The Conference of Bishops is a permanent grouping of Bishops of a given nation or territory that jointly exercises certain pastoral functions on behalf of the Christian faithful of their territory. This is done for the sake of effective evangelisation. To promote the principle of the common good which the Church offers humankind, especially through forms and programmes of the apostolate which are fittingly adapted to the circumstances of the time and place, is the role of Bishops.