FarmHive Trading Zambia Limited

Post-Harvest Support CHALLENGE; Zambia

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Post-Harvest Support

Learn more about the Post-Harvest Support Challenge and why an evidence-based model that distributes post-harvest loans and improved grain storage bags could reliably boost the standard of living for smallholder farmers.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

FarmHive Trading Zambia Limited will reduce post-harvest losses for rain-fed farmers and enhance regional food security.

Their model establishes decentralised storage hubs that improve rural storage, eliminate post-harvest losses and increase access to post-harvest credit.

The initiative targets small-scale farmers who live on $2 a day, have traditional storage infrastructure, and use conventional post-harvest practices. This will preserve harvests for resource-scarce in Katete District, who would otherwise lose 40% of their annual incomes to post-harvest losses.

FarmHive was founded by Patton Kalunga and Isaac Mando who have over 15 years of experience working on agriculture projects with organisations such as USADF, GIZ, and Vision Fund.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Directly reach 50 farmers during the pilot.

• Distribute 4 proven interventions.

• Fundraise an additional $30,000 USD from new donors and investors within three months.

FOUNDING TEAM

Patton Kalunga - CEO

Isaac Mando - COO

Novus Solar

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar Lamps

Learn more about the Solar Lamp Challenge and how these lamps create enormous benefits for developing world families.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Novus Solar is an innovative, market-driven, and socially inclusive energy enterprise providing affordable solar energy lighting to the rural marginalized poor through PAYGO and cash sales.

Novus Solar’s distribution model which will be implemented in North East of Zambia entails the recruitment of local sales and store agents in the community whom they will train and equip to sell solar lamps through the pay-as-you-go model.

The sales and local store agents will be equipped with materials for the sale and branding of stores and agents such as posters and uniforms. The sales agents will conduct field sales while the store agents will be selling from the shops.

The PAYGO-enabled solar lamps will allow customers to make affordable purchases of energy units to access the lighting. The solar lamps will only turn on if they are recharged using the energy unit which will be sold locally. This will enable customers to access lighting at an affordable rate for a period of time. The system will be unlocked after the completion of payments. The energy units would be sold on a rolling basis, as the lamps are being sold. The agents and stores will be incentivized through commissions and bonuses from the sales.

Chama Mwewa is the General Manager and Founder of Novus Solar, working with Ibn Kafwanka, the Sales and Marketing Consultant as well as Co-founder. Gertrude Chisenga is the Operations Assistant and Co-Founder of Novus Solar.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• 1550 customers will be reached during the pilot phase.

• 1550 solar lamps will be distributed.

• Fundraise an additional $35000.

FOUNDING TEAM

Chama Mwewa - General Manager

Ibn Kafwanka - Marketing Consultant

Gertrude Chisenga - Operations Assistant

Everlight Solar Solutions

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; Zambia

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar lamps. 

Learn more about the Solar Lamp Challenge and how these lamps create enormous benefits for developing world families.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Everlight Solar Solutions' mission is to empower rural communities in Central Province, Zambia, by providing them with access to reliable and affordable Pico solar lamps. They are committed to promoting sustainable development and environmental stewardship, while contributing to the socio-economic growth of the region.

They will distribute high tech, high quality Solar latens to off-grid and poor grid underserved communities in Mumbwa, Central province and across Zambia. Through their distribution network, they aim to improve the quality of life and reduce energy poverty, enabling individuals to work, study and enjoy leisure activities after sunset.

Everlight was started in 2023 by Wamunyima Walubita who is a trained journalist, theologian and entrepreneur. Emma Malambo who is a seasoned sales and marketing specialist is the co founder of everlight. Rosemary Phiri is the operation manager

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Distribute 600 solar lamps with 12 local commercial agent

• Impact 3,000 beneficiaries across 20 villages in Mumbwa

FOUNDING TEAM

Wamunyima Walubita - CEO

Emma Malambo - Sales and Marketing Manager

AgriEn Network

QUALITY INPUTS CHALLENGE CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA

 PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Quality seeds and fertilizer as well as transportation of farm produce to market. 

Learn more about the Improved Farm Practices Challenge and why increasing the effective use of fertilizer has the potential to unlock significant crop yield for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.  

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

AgriEn Network will increase access to quality inputs and extension services to smallholder farmers in Zambia to help them grow and earn more.

AgriEn maintains an input distribution system that is anchored on extension services and market linkages in Eastern Zambia. It makes input accessible to farmers through a flexible access model that builds capacity of the farmer to scale their adoption over time. The venture creates opportunities for not only repeat business but sustainability in the adoption of the quality inputs through strategic linkages between farmers and a network of support organizations across the value chain.

AgriEn was founded in 2020 by a dynamic teams consisting of Yvonne Mtumbi Mwanza, Lawrence Shonga, Mwansa Lwanga, and Gordon Mwanza.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• 300 smallholder farmers enrolled over the first three months, impacting 1,800 people

• Raise additional $4,000 within first three months

• Reach 6,000 beneficiaries by the end of year 1

FOUNDING TEAM

Yvonne Mtumbi Mwanza - Director

Lawrence Shonga - Business Development Facilitator

Mwansa Lwanga - Communication and Marketing Facilitator

Gordon Mwanza - IT Support Associate

Blesser Breakers

SUGAR DADDY AWARENESS CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA

Blesser Breakers won the 2022 Fletcher D-Prize. The Fletcher D-Prize is open to all Fletcher students, alumni, and Tufts undergraduates, and is part of a larger entrepreneurship ecosystem of support at Tufts University.

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Sugar Daddy Awareness classes. 

Learn more about the Sugar Daddy Awareness Challenge and how a simple, one-hour “sugar daddy awareness” training could help countless girls avoid pregnancy while still in school, which can lead to entrenched poverty, and build a better life.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Blesser Breakers aims to raise Sugar Daddy awareness by delivering a 3-part, 2-hour intervention to Grade 8 girls in Western Province, Zambia, to reduce risky cross-generational sexual relationships, in turn reducing the spread of HIV and unwanted pregnancy.  The intervention will consist of a 15-minute animated video screening (or comic book reading when technology is not available), and a facilitated discussion. To implement and distribute the programming, Blesser Breakers will partner with the Ministry of Education (for on-the-ground outreach, implementation, facilitators, and facilitator training).

Blesser Breakers was founded by Wabei Saboi from Mongu, Zambia, Ashira Pelt from Florida, USA, and Daniel Kibet from Eldoret, Kenya.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 1,000 students during the three-month pilot

• Reach 5,000 students by the end of Year 1

• Reach 15,000 students by the end of Year 2

• Raise an additional $5,000 during the pilot

FOUNDING TEAM

Wabei Saboi - Project Lead

Ashira Pelt - Project Lead

Daniel Kibet - Project Lead

Easy Buy

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar lamps. 

Learn more about the Solar Lamp Challenge and how these lamps create enormous benefits for developing world families.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Easy Buy’s mission is to improve lives through distributing cost effective solar products of superior quality to far flung areas in Zambia and beyond.

Easy Buy will distribute high tech, high quality Solar Lamps to Rural Off-grid and poor grid underserved communities across Zambia. Its mission is to improve the lives of Zambians through providing them clean and reliable light. Their model is to distribute solar lamps through local Community Based Distributors and Sales Representatives who will be recruited and trained to serve the communities they live in. The venture will distribute lamps through an improved and simplified PayGo model to suit customer who live in the remotest part of the country with no mobile money services which other similar ventures use.

The company was founded in 2022 by Misheck Nkhoma. He is joined by a team of like minded passionate individuals Emmanuel and Betty with vast experience in working with rural communities.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

•  Reach 1,200 beneficiaries during pilot

• Distribute 400 Pico Solar Lamps during the pilot

• Raise an additional $15,000 during the pilot

FOUNDING TEAM

Misheck Nkhoma - Executive Director

Emmanuel Tembo - Sales Executive

Betty Mukoka - Marketing Excutive

Impact Energy

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar lamps. 

Learn more about the Solar Lamp Challenge and how these lamps create enormous benefits for developing world families.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Impact Energy was founded by Mapalo Wamushilo and co-founded by Mwemba Mvula. The venture will distribute solar lanterns in partnership with last mile mobile money booths.

The business model is based on working with mobile money service providers to distribute solar lanterns with agents working under them to work in rural field communities to do sales and marketing. The project will be implemented in rural Zambia, where the team has experience working in rural communities to deliver development through schools.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Distribute 500 solar lamps during the three-month pilot through a network of 30 agents

• Raise an additional $40,000 during the three-month pilot

• Reach 440,000 people by the end of year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Mapalo Wamushilo

Mwemba Mvula

EnergyFirst

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar lamps. 

Learn more about the Solar Lamp Challenge and how these lamps create enormous benefits for developing world families.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

EnergyFirst will distribute solar lanterns on a pay-as-you-go basis starting in the rural, off-grid communities of Ngabwe District in central Zambia.

EnergyFirst will set up solar lantern energy mobile teams by recruiting agents, training them in solar products, and establishing local energy booths. This will enable customers to chose the solar lantern product
they want to purchase. After due diligence and a small downpayment, customers will be given the solar lamps and will repay over time based on what they would typically pay for kerosene/candles until completing full payment.

EnergyFirst was founder by Joseph Bwalya Lubuto an experienced professional in development work in rural communities and cofounded by Kaputo Kapungu an experienced customer management and finance professional.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Distribute 1,200 solar lamps during the pilot, reaching 9,600 beneficiaries

• Raise an additional $16,000 during the pilot

• Reach 22,000 beneficiaries by the end of year 1

• Reach 135,000 beneficiaries by the end of year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Joseph Bwalya Lubuto - Project Lead

Kaputo Kapungu - Operations Lead

Society for Impact Health Initiative Limited

SAYANA PRESS CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Sayana Press injectable contraceptive.  

Learn more about the Sayana®  Press Challenge and why training health providers to administer Sayana® Press can be particularly valuable for women who prefer injectable contraceptives but don’t have regular access.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Society for Impact Health Initiative (SIHI) is a non-profit company working to meet the unmeet need for contraceptives for underserved populations by scaling up distribution of self-injectable contraceptives in rural Zambia.

The SIHI model uses an evidence-based approach and targets trained community-based distributors in injectable contraceptives to distribute self-injecetable contraceptives and train women on self-injection within their community. The pilot will launch in Mpika district of Muchinga province in Zambia before scaling nationwide.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Provide 1,920 women with access to Sayana Press during the pilot

• Raise $80,000 during the pilot to support future scale

• Reach 250,000 beneficiaries by the end of year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Abraham Chingalika - Executive Director

Richard Chimfwembe - Program Director

Prayreen Chisanga - Monitoring, Evaluation & Knowledge Management Director

SolarPoint Limited

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar lamps. 

Learn more about the Solar Lamp Challenge and how these lamps create enormous benefits for developing world families.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

SolarPoint distributes solar lamps through agricultural cooperatives and savings groups.

The SolarPoint model reaches rural farmers through the point of contact for inputs and market linkages, farmer cooperatives and savings groups, and uses a crops-for-lights model to provide farmers with much needed energy access and market linkage for their produce.

SolarPoint was founded by Laurence Wamulume Beele and Michael Kwibisa Masupelo.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Distribute 420 solar lamps during the pilot, reaching 2,100 beneficiaries

• Raise an additional $25,000 during the pilot

• Reach 10,000 beneficiaries by the end of year 1

• Reach 30,000 beneficiaries by the end of year 2

FOUNDING TEAM

Wamulume Laurence Beele - Co-founder, Innovation Lead

Michael Kwibisa Masupelo - Co-founder, Commercial Lead

Saving Mothers Saving Lives - Zambia

PMTCT CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Retention in care and adherence to anti-retroviral treatment for people living with HIV. 

Learn more about the PMTCT Challenge and how increasing completion of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to prevent mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV can decrease HIV rates and improve lives.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Saving Mothers, Saving Lives increases adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and retention in HIV care for at least HIV positive pregnant and breastfeeding women.

Launching in Katete District the Mothers for Life-eMTCT project interventions will build on comprehensive integrated HIV and ANC services at the health facility level, adding evidence-based strategies in the community and at individual level to support adherence to and retention in ART. These include: (1) mobile health (mHealth) short message service (SMS) with two-way communication to convey health messages and help retain HIV positive pregnant women in existing ART services, and (2) Community-Based Volunteers who conduct home visits to support eMTCT services.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 300 HIV+ expectant mothers during the pilot phase

• Raise an additional $7,000 during the pilot phase

• Reach 750 HIV+ expectant mothers by the end of year 1

FOUNDING TEAM

Davies Bwalya - Director

Constance Himakuma - Clinical Lead Mentor

Innocent Tembo - Strategic/Planning (M&E)

Lubuto Energy Services

SOLAR LAMP CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Solar Lamps.

Learn more about the Solar Lamp Challenge and how these lamps create enormous benefits for developing world families.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Lubuto Energy Services reaches communities through existing local leadership, mobilizing community members through Chiefs/Headmen, Parent Teacher Associations and farming cooperatives. The pilot will be located in Samfya Town covering three rural villages with five distribution outlets. These outlets will use local solar scouts to sensitize the community and then offer solar products with mobile charging capabilities with both pay-as-you-go and rent-to-own options.

The Lubuto team with provide distributors and solar scouts with ongoing skills trainings including inventory and business management skills to help them grow their distribution networks.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Reach 8,484 people and establish 5 distribution outlets during the pilot phase

• Reach 33,936 people and establish 100 distribution outlets by the end of Y1

• Reach 228,000 people and establish 200 distribution outlets by the end of Y2

FOUNDING TEAM

Kasonde Chomba - Founder

Lengwe Kasonde - Co-Founder

Edwin Nyirongo - Co-Founder

Inspire Zambia Foundation

PMTCT CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Retention in care and adherence to anti-retroviral treatment for people living with HIV. 

Learn more about the PMTCT Challenge and how increasing completion of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to prevent mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV can decrease HIV rates and improve lives.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Retention in care and adherence to treatment remain challenges for HIV patients in Zambia. Across the country, HIV prevalence remains high at 12.3% among adults and 1.3% among children. 

Inspire Zambia Foundation will run a pilot at two hospitals that support anti-retroviral therapy (ART) services in the province of Lusaka. The pilot will focus on strengthening the links between newly identified HIV patients and the tracking of patients who are already receiving ART treatment. Ensuring that new patients begin, adhere to, and complete crucial ART treatment will be done by building the capacity of community health workers (CHWs). Inspire Zambia Foundation will train CHWs to work as Adherence Counselors using a new curriculum and a system of Mobile Patient Tracking. This intervention enhances the quality of HIV programming in Zambia, focusing on CHWs and their potential to improve patient experience and adherence to the ART regimen. This direct, personal touch has been shown to improve adherence rates and therefore decrease instances of mother to child transmission of HIV.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Work with 2 health facilities implementing PMTCT interventions during the pilot 

• Work with 66 health facilities implementing PMTCT interventions by the end of year 2 

• Train 15 ACMPTs during the pilot 

• Train 500 ACMPTs by the end of year 2 

• Counsel 900 patients on ART adherence with revised curriculum during pilot 

• Counsel 100,000 patients on ART adherence with revised curriculum by the end of year 2 

FOUNDING TEAM

Fred Chitalu - Team Lead

Mulenga Mukanu - Linkage Coordinator

Ruth Mkala - Curriculum Development and Training Manager

Zita Zulu - Finance Manager

Tessellate Strategies Ltd.

IMMUNIZATION CHALLENGE; ZAMBIA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Immunization reminders.

Learn more about the Immunization Challenge and how Increasing routine childhood immunization rates in low-coverage areas could prevent millions of childhood deaths.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

The vision of Tessellate Strategies Ltd. Is to track vaccine supply chains in Zambia using SMS messages. The principle is simple- when vaccines arrive in country, a sticker is applied to each box with a unique identifying code that drivers, stock movers, and healthcare workers text to the organization’s free number. Everyone along the way will be incentivized to text their toll-free number so Tessellate Strategies can collect data along the distribution chain. The team will develop an online platform that will integrate the data collected into an online, real-time tracking and inventory system. Their system will improve distribution efficiency and reduce vaccine wastage in the regions where they work.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

• Identify key inefficiencies and weak points in the supply chain by 6 months

FOUNDING TEAM

Lauren Byrne - Founder

Camillo Lamanna - Founder