1. FAME -Finland Africa Midwifery Education Project
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: FAME Project is Sponsored by the Finish National Agency for Education. It is being administered from 1st August 2023 to 31st December, 2025. It is a collaborative project with University of Zambia-School of Nursing Sciences, NOVIA University -Finland and University of VENDA in South Africa. It is worth 46,000.00 Euros.
PROJECT LEADS: Patricia Katowa-Mukwato -UNZA, Anita Wikberg NOVIA and Sonto Maputle University of Venda.
AIMS OF THE PROJECT: To Enhance students’ and teachers’ global knowledge, competences and intercultural skills through knowledge sharing in education practices.
FOCUS OF THE PTOJECT: Three Thematic Areas of High-risk pregnancy, Maternal mental health, Structure of education, health and welfare systems, curriculum development.
PROJECT ACTIVITIES: include online workshops for knowledge sharing, teacher/ student exchange and holding of a dissemination seminar
Project expected outcomes:
- Improved competences in virtual/digital teaching
- Enhanced understanding of different and good practices in the field of midwifery, public, health care and nursing education
- Improved knowledge among teachers and students on high-risk pregnancy and maternal mental health, intercultural midwifery competences and health care systems
- Indirectly through education of professionals, partner HEIs contribute in the long term to the improvement of maternity and perinatal mortality in all three countries
- Improved/renewed curricula and teaching methods and models
- Improved cultural competences, intercultural collaboration and communication, especially for students
- Identifying potential to further deepen cooperation after the project is finished.
2. NORAD -NORHED II “Strengthening Maternal and Neonatal Health - The grant is worth NoK 19,000,000 under a consortium of 4 Universities; Malawi University of Sciences and Technology as the lead Southern Partner, Kamuzu College of Nursing, UNZA-School of Nursing Sciences, University of Kwazulu Natal, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Value allocated to UNZA-SoN is K7,332,561.36. The project offers scholarships to Masters, PhD and Post Doc candidates to study and conduct research and maternal and neonatal health. This is a major capacity building activity in the school.
3. Strengthening Health Professional Workforce Education Programs for Improved Quality Health Care In Zambia- (SHEPIZ) Project in collaboration with School of Medicine (Supported by NIH-USA). This project is worth USD 600,00.00 per year for 5 Year from 2019 to 2024. The project is offering scholarships to 19 MSc students studying under different MSc programmes in the School
4. European Union Grant Project title: Developing Post Graduate Training Programme for Maternal Mental Health in Sub. Saharan Africa. (eMAMA). Proposal number:101082701. Worthy Euro 86, 092 (K1, 385,608.00) for 36 months. The project will be administered by a consortium of 9 universities.
1. Erasmus Mega Project: Building capacity by implementing mhGAP mobile intervention in SADC countries . Project Agreement No. 585827-1-2017-1-F1-EPPKAP-CBHE (2017-3636/001-001. The Project is C0-Funded by the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union. Project duration: October 2017 to September 2020. In Zambia the Project Principal Investigator is Dr Lonia Mwape
Major Aim of the Project: To develop a mental Health Screening Application for use by Primary Health Care Providers to screen adolescent for depression and substance abuse in Zambia and South Africa.
The project is being implemented by a consortium of 10 Universities
- Turku University of Applied Science, RUISKATU 8, 20740, Turku, Finland
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany
- Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia
- University of Zambia- Lusaka School of Nursing
- Lusaka Apex Medical University- Lusaka Zambia
- Stellenbosch University-South Africa
- University of Cape Town-South Africa
- University of Pretoria – Pretoria- South Africa
- Walter Sisulu University - Mthatha, South Africa.
- Universiteit Van Die Oranje Vrystaat- Bloemfontein, South Africa
2. The NORHED (Norwegian Higher Education Development) project: It’s a Five Year Project sponsored by Norad. Agreement number: QZA-0484 NORHED 2013 – MWI 13/0032. Agreement period: 2013-2018 Project Title: Development of a Novel Nursing and Midwifery Graduate and Postgraduate Training Program in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In Zambia the Project Principal Investigator is Prof Margaret Maimbolwa.The Project is administered by a consortium of Five Universities: Three Southern Partners- Univserity of Malawi, Kamuzu College of Nursing, University of Zambia- School of Nursing Sciences and University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences-Department of Nursing.
The two Northern Universities are Arctic University of Norway (UIT) and University of Oslo.
At the University of Zambia-School of Nursing Sciences, the Project has undertaken the following:
a) Development of the BSc Midwifery Curriculum
b) Development of the MSC Midwifery and Women’s Health Curriculum
c) Development of the PhD Midwifery Programme
d) Sponsorship/Scholarships for 4 MSc Candidates
e) Sponsorship for PhD Midwifery Candidates
f) Sponsorship for 8 Faculty Small research Grants
g) Sponsorship of the Multicentre Project (Baseline research and implementation to Improved quality of life for mothers and new-borns in Lusaka and Mumbwa Districts of Zambia