IGP CONCEPT NOTE APPLICATION FORM
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Number
Date Received
The following information is required from organisations submitting concept notes to apply for
funding from the Millennium Challenge Account Zambia under the Innovation Grant Program.
It should be completed only after reading the Grant Application Manual. You may alter the
length of the boxes but not the format. The entire concept note application, excluding any
additional material, may not be longer than ten pages. Please use Times New Roman 12 pt.
font if available.
SECTION 1: APPLICANT INFORMATION
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Submission
Date:
27/11/2014
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Organisation:
Vision For National Knowledge Association
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a. Postal
Address:
P.O BOX 54110
b. Physical
Address:
B738 MTENDERE,
ALICK NKHATA ROAD
LUSAKA , ZAMBIA
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Description of
the
Organisation’s
Mission:
Vision For National Knowledge Association is the Non Governmental Organization
registered in Zambia under NGO Act of 2009 chapter 16 of the Laws of Zambia. The
organization was registered on 5th May 2014 and it’s objectives are to reduce the
volume of the solid waste stream through the implementation of waste reduction and
recycling programs.
• Maintain a balanced SWM system which benefits the community while following
regulatory requirements.
• Provide efficient and economical refuse collection, recycling, and disposal services.
• Provide facilities for the sanitary, efficient and economical reception and
transportation of solid waste generated in Lusaka.
• Provide for the operation of sanitary waste disposal facilities, utilizing the most
economically viable and environmentally acceptable methods available.
• Provide regulatory oversight of the county’s ordinances regarding solid waste. and
will provide environmentally safe management of liquid and solid waste. We will be
responsible for operating in 20 peri-urban areas in Lusaka city transfer stations
offering disposal and recycling services at our plant. We will collaborate with various
community partners in promoting recycling and ways to reduce waste. We will
provide residential and small business hazardous waste disposal services at four
Special Waste Facilities. We will maintain and conduct environmental monitoring of
20 peri-urban areas in Lusaka.
Vision Statement
The Vision For National Knowledge Association will be committed to excellence in
all of our undertakings. We must be forever cognizant of the fiscal impact of our
decisions and actions (or inactions, for that matter) and strive to be excellent stewards
of the poor people in Lusaka peri-urban areas. We must continually embrace the
customer service values established by the Board of Supervisors. We must be willing
to work with our partners, whoever they are, to solve these problems.
We must seek to accomplish our mission as a team. Yesterday’s logic may not apply
today. We reject inertia and embrace change.
It is imperative that we have long-range thinking so as not to miss the forest due to our
focus on the trees. Creativity is expected, innovation encouraged and teamwork a
must. We must be committed to each other’s success and, as such, we will be
successful.
Mission Statement
The Mission of the Vision For National Knowledge Association is to protect the
health and safety of the public and enhance the quality of life by providing
environmentally safe management of liquid and solid waste.
In order to accomplish this Mission, We, the employees of the Vision For National
Knowledge Association are committed to:
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Description of
up to five most
important
or
intended
activities
of
your
organization:
(this
means
your
core
activities as an
organization. It
could be one
activity but they
Providing quality service in a cost-effective and timely manner;
Treating the public and each other with respect;
Teamwork;
Safety;
Educating the public on the best ways to reduce and recycle waste and
properly dispose of materials unable to be recycled/ reused.
1. RECYCLING
Vision For National Knowledge Association is selecting actions that will increase
recycling opportunities in Lusaka city in order to minimize waste disposal
requirements. , following the SWM hierarchy, prefers solid waste recycling to
disposal methods of waste management. Recycling appropriate materials helps reduce
the environmental affects of waste disposal, produces revenue, reduces SWM system
costs, and saves energy and natural resources.
Vision for National Knowledge Association SWMP actions for recycling will help
accomplish the
SWM objectives by:
• Increasing overall recycling quantities in Lusaka to reduce the amount of material to
dispose of.
• Expanding types of materials collected and recycled to increase recycling quantities,
do not need to e.g. collecting cardboard, plastic bottles, and mixed paper curbside.
be more than • Revising county ordinances to support increased recycling by businesses and other
five)
provisions.
• Supporting facilities for the sanitary, efficient and economical management of
recyclables.
• Promoting public/private partnerships to increase program efficiency and minimize
city costs.
• Increasing public awareness to increase participation in recycling initiatives.
2. COLLECTION
The Association is selecting SWMP actions that promote an efficient, effective, and
environmentally sound refuse and recyclables collection system. The Association’s
primary objective for the future of its collection system is to ensure all residents
receive first-rate trash collection services.
The Association’s SWMP actions for collection will help accomplish the SWM
objectives by:
• Providing excellent customer service to all residents of the 20 Lusaka peri-urban
areas.
• Partnering with waste collection companies that have been mandated by the Lusaka
city council and other stakeholders to address service issues identified during the
development of this Project.
• Developing cooperative agreements to handle waste generated by disasters or
emergencies.
• Evaluating the use of lower emissions fuels for collection
Vehicles.
Developing consistent messages for public outreach about recycling and collection of
waste.
3. TRANSFER
The Association is selecting SWMP actions that continue to provide facilities for the
sanitary, efficient and economical reception and transfer of solid waste generated in
Lusaka 20 peri-ubarn areas..
The Association ‘s SWMP actions for transfer will help accomplish the SWM
objectives by:
• Providing disposal capacity Transfer Station for solid waste at reasonable costs.
Consolidating wastes generated in the city and recycle them to fuel, animal feeds and
organic fertilizers. Transfer Station or other locations, reducing travel time and
distances that smaller collection vehicles must travel.
• Improving system efficiency by consolidating waste loads provided by smaller
trucks into larger trailers for transport to the waste-to-energy facility (Energy
Resource Recovery
Enhancing the screening and sorting done at the transfer facilities to increase recycling
of CDD and other materials. The Association is selecting SWMP actions that continue
to provide for the operation of sanitary waste disposal facilities, using the most
economically viable and environmentally acceptable methods available. The
Association’s SWMP actions for disposal will help accomplish this SWM objective
by securing cost-effective and environmentally sound disposal capacity for citygenerated wastes over the SWMP planning period.
Currency used
in
this
US$
Application
(Applicant
to
tick
currency
they have used
with
this
application):
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Name
of Vincent Kafula
Contact Person:
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Position within President
the
organization:
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Email address: Telephone:
(for
contact
person and that
of the applicant
organization
whichever
is
applicable)
vinkassociate@
gmail.com
+260955363091
vkafula@yahoo
.com
+260965363091
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ZMW
Fax:
+260975363091
+260955548500
SECTION 2: PROFILE OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT
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Project Title:
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Project Location: This project aims to address the current waste management situation in Lusaka
peri-urban areas, by concentrating on reducing household garbage disposal
through recyclable options which will provides an alternate monetary avenue for
Garbage/Waste Recycling within the Lusaka Communities
the communities within each suburb, and also proposing alternate means of
garbage disposals in the following areas:
Mtendere,George,Lilanda,Zingalume,Mandevu,Chawama,Misisi,
Linda,Kalingalinga,Ng’ombe,Kamanga,Matero,Kuku,Chipata,Chaise,
Zanmuone Kabanana , Mandevu and Chainda.
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(i)Project Main Goal and expected economic impacts of the project (Max: 150 words):
Recycling is well-known for its environmental benefits, which include resource conservation,
energy conservation and reductions in water and air pollution, including reductions in greenhouse
gas generation, however, it also has significant economic benefits, many of which are often
overlooked.
Recycling is an important segment of the national and state economy, creates jobs and saves money
for generators of waste. The businesses, institutions and local government entities highlighted in
this project all understand that recycling makes both environmental sense and economic sense.
This project is aimed at recycling garbages turning them into fuel (diesel, petrol paraffin and heavy
oil), organic fertilizers, animal feeds and stationary papers. The movement to educate on safety and
segregation and limit the waste shipped to the city’s landfills is an innovation. Recently, local news
programs have devoted segments to advocates, largely waste management, instructing homeowners
how to compost their waste. with us for most of the Trash Trail will be a news anchor and More
than 1000 youths from Lusaka peri-urban areas to be employed so as to reduce unemployment level
in Lusaka.
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(ii) What is the Innovation? What are the proposed activities? How does the proposed innovation
project address the problem statement associated with the call for the concept note in terms of
improved outcomes? (Max 250 words):
The Lusaka City Council (LCC) who is responsible for the operations and management of the City
of Lusaka has been throughout the years struggling to reduce the amount of household garbage
being disposed at Rubbish Disposal Dumps allowing an increase in scavenging for recyclable, and
compost materials. Similarly it does not have a clear demarcation on the types of waste materials,
which could have been separated earlier for recycling, composting or disposed through incineration
or land-fills. Nor it has clear policies on neither recycling nor proposals for recycling at a large
scale. Most people in Lusaka peri-urban areas do not afford to pay K20 charged by the Lusaka city
Council garbage disposal so what they do is that at night they dump garbages in drainages as well as
in road in order to escape paying K20. According to our research most people in Lusaka peri-ubarn
areas each house is occupied by 6 families and each family is to pay K20 so this means that each
house is to pay K120 in order for LCC to clean the area, so if two families pay out of six families
the Lusaka city cannot manage to collect and clean the area. This project is an innovation because
solid waste will be used as raw material for fuel production and other products.
We will sensitive the community that each house(6 families) is to pay K10 to Community Based
Enterprises mandated by Lusaka city council to collect garbage in Lusaka and the remaining
amount is to be paid by this Association to the Community Based Enterprises and this cost will be
charged as the cost of purchasing raw material.
To achieve the project's aim, the strategy is two-fold.
1. To work with the LCC (and its waste disposal contractors) to focus on a waste collection
program with the communities, and
2. To work with and engage the communities to establish garbage collection units (depots)
through the LCC in their own suburbs, where all garbage/waste/rubbish is sorted out prior to
final disposal this means to our plant which will be installed in Makeni area.
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The IGP is intended to increase and sustain the benefits of the Millennium Challenge Compact
investments in Zambia to reduce disease burden, increase time savings, and reduce physical losses
to the water and sanitation systems and improve drainage through supporting projects that achieve
IGP goals, which are to:
Increase and sustain the access of the poor to quality water and sanitation and improved drainage
maintenance through solid waste management;
Enhance the functioning of the sewerage, and drainage systems this project is addressing the
problem statement.
(iii) Who are the beneficiaries? Please estimate the approximate number of direct and indirect
beneficiaries. Please estimate the number of beneficiaries who are women, girls, or members of
vulnerable groups (Max 150 words):1
Target Groups and Final Beneficiaries
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Ministers: Agriculture, Local Government and Housing, Tourism, Energy and Lobour.
Local authorities and municipalities (Lusaka city council)
Zambia environmental management agency
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Local farmers and farmers
Private consumers
600 Unemployed male youths in Lusaka peri-urban areas so as to reduce beer intake
among youths
200 Unemployed female youths in Lusaka peri-urban areas so as to re school dropout due to
financial constraint.
200 Unemployed women in Lusaka peri-urban areas so as to reduce poverty.
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The total direct beneficiaries are 1000 in terms of employment creation and the total number
of indirect beneficiaries in Lusaka is 20,000 by getting help from those who will be
employed. Our organization is not for profit organization all our profit will be shared with
street children, blind people in Lusaka, sick people in hospital and those people in prison for
their reforms.
(iv) Explain how the Project could be categorized as an innovation in water supply, sanitation or
drainage (Max 250words):
It is an innovation because more than 1000 people from Lusaka peri-urban will be engaged in
garbage collection. Each person is to look after 50 houses collecting plastics and sorting them and
pack. Each person is to earn up to $127 monthly, this money will be coming from 50 Landlords
contribution of $1.8 each. The Association will add 30% of the total 50 landlord contribution and
pay to the Community Based Enterprises and this cost will be charged as the cost of purchasing low
Beneficiaries can either be direct or indirect. Direct beneficiaries are those that will benefit directly from the proposed actions of the
innovation. Indirect beneficiaries are those that will benefit from secondary impacts of the activities of the proposed innovation.
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material.
Risk Identification:
In undertaking this work we will need to: be mindful not to interfere with the community
obligations and responsibilities of the LCC, and be mindful of the disposal habits of people and
their stubbornness to cooperate in proper disposal manners.
The project creates financial implications and the cost factor would increase in the long run as a
continuous project year-in year out. The concept of recycling has been around for thousands of
years. Historically, recycling has always been implemented as a way to reuse materials that were no
longer needed or suitable for their initial purpose or use. Native Americans were steadfast recyclers
throughout their long tribal histories. Leather from old worn-out fur coats was often transformed
into a pair of warm moccasins. Broken ceramics were often turned into tools or weapons for
hunting. These people recycled because it was the best way to utilize the resources they had to the
fullest extent. They never experienced modern forms of pollution, and they certainly never had to
pay for the disposal of waste. People recycled because it seemed like the only reasonable thing to
do. It saved time, energy and resources, along with promoting a self-sustainable way of living, at
that time the only means for efficient survival.
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Modern civilizations have become increasingly dependent on packaged materials. In fact, packaging
represents about 65% of all household trash.1 This is partially due to the fact that most of us do not
partake in a self-sustaining lifestyle. Most of us buy everything we need to live, and our purchases
are packaged and shipped to us from all parts of the world. The ability to mass produce cheap
lightweight materials such as paper, plastic and aluminum has turned Zambia into a “throw away”
society where wasteful packaging is all too common, while more and more items are being
marketed as disposable. This Project could be categorized as an innovation in sanitation (waste
management) because we will be able to produce fuel , organic fertilizer, animal food from waste,
reduce drainage blockage and improve sanitation because waste will be used as raw material.
Amount
of
Funding $1,980,000
Requested from IGP:
Project
Partner(s),
i.e.
description
of •Solid waste is one of the biggest problems in Lusaka peri-urban
partners/potential partners: areas.
•Most Residents do not subscribe to the system in place.
•Indiscriminate disposal of waste by residents of the peri-urban areas
is the order of the day.
•Drainages are usually blocked by the solid waste causing flooding
during the rain season.
The vision for nation knowledge association will work with Lusaka
city council and Community Based Enterprises that collects garbages
in the following compounds: Mtendere, George, Lilanda,
Zingalume,Mandevu,Chawama ,Misisi, Linda, Kalingalinga
Ng’ombe Kamanga, Matero, Kuku,Chipata,Chaise, Garden
Zanmuone Kabanana , and Chainda to solve the problem.
The Waste Management Unit (WMU) is the regulatory Unit of Waste
Management in the city is mandated to plan, organize, execute
(directly or indirectly) and supervise waste management services in
other selected areas in the City and the management of disposal site.
The Waste Management Unit (WMU) operate in a cost neutral
manner meaning that the Waste Management Unit (WMU)
shall generate sufficient funds to pay for all the expenditure required
to provide an efficient and affordable waste collection and disposal
service in the entire city.We will work with following organization:
Zambia Environment Management Agency ,Energy regulation board,
Zambia Bureau of Standards.
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Project Total Cost:
Total includes proposed $3,000,000
IGP
contribution,
cofunding and/or cost-sharing
by Applicant to the
proposed Project
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Proposed date of start of 1st June 2015
innovation project:
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Requesting Signature:
Date:
SECTION 3: FINANCIAL CAPACITY AND BUDGET ESTIMATES
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a. Our fiscal year end is: June for accounting purposes
b. We have an operational accounting system in place:
c. The organization has a bank account :
Yes
Yes
No
No
Insert year:
Year 1:_____
Year 2:_____
Year 3:____
Total
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Total estimated
project budget
$1,000,000
$1,000,000
$1,000,000
$3,000,000
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Percentage of total
project budget
portion to be
financed from IGP
funds
66%
66%
66%
66%
34%
34%
34%
34%
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Percentage of total
project budget to be
financed from other
sources
SECTION 4: ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION RELATED TO ELIGIBILITY:
In order to demonstrate our organization’s eligibility, we have attached:
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A copy of our organization’s formal registration or other verifiable evidence of its status
as a legal person in the relevant jurisdiction status AND;
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A memo signed by the Chairman of our Board (or equivalent) certifying all of the
following:
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That the organization is an eligible organization legally constituted under
relevant law with a legal status or is in the process of obtaining such legal status
through formal registration;
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That the organization has a management structure that includes appropriate
staffing;
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That the organization has received a copy of the IGP Grant Application Manual
and that the Applicant’s management has read and understood its contents;
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That the organization confirms that at the time of application, no condition
within the organization or with respect to my organization’s management exists
that renders the organization ineligible2 for a grant directly or indirectly funded
by either the Government of Zambia or the Government of the United States.
Statement on Child Labor and Human Trafficking
We, the undersigned, do hereby affirm that our organisation is not involved directly or
indirectly in any form of child labour or human trafficking. We undertake to ensure that we
shall at all times respect and observe the Zambian and International Laws relating to or
consequential to child labour or human trafficking in all our undertakings.
Signature: _____________________ Title:
___________________________
Date:
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IGP CONCEPT NOTE CHECKLIST FOR APPLICANTS
S/N
Characteristics
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(ⱱ)
Concept Note Application, with all relevant sections filled in
correctly.
Section 4. Organizational information related to eligibility:
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A copy of organization’s formal registration or other verifiable
evidence of its status as a legal person in the relevant
jurisdiction3
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A memo signed by the chairman of the board (or equivalent)
(see application section on organizational eligibility). The
memo also states that the applicant has read and understood the
grant application manual (this manual).
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Signed statement that applicant they has understood and will
comply with relevant child labour and human trafficking laws
Additional information about the organization’s activities and finances:
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Large Grants Only Annual narrative / activity reports from
previous year(s) and / or any other reports that demonstrate the
organization’s relevant track record in the water supply,
sanitation or drainage sector (or innovations in a related sector).
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Large Grants Only Annual financial reports (or equivalent)
from most recent previous quarter or year (if available).
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Large Grants Only Evidence (e.g. receipts, TPIN Number) of
compliance with statutory payments such as NAPSA and tax
compliance with the Zambia Revenue Authority. (Includes
Letter of Tax Exemption).
All organizations: signatory authority
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Evidence of signatory authority (corporate resolution, other) or
statement evidencing that the person signing the concept note
application is authorized to do so on behalf of the organization
may be an appropriate certificate of registration with relevant Government entity (e.g. for Zambia,
PACRA, Registrar of Societies, Local Authority, ZEMA)