COMACO Work Areas

The COMACO program currently operates over large landscapes of Eastern and portions of Lusaka and Northern Provinces of Zambia. Zambia isa landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is surrounded by Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia. The country is mostly a plateau and covers an area of more than 750,000 sq.meters. Zambiathough sparsely populated (about 13 million people)has more than 70 ethnic groups, mainlyBantu-speaking.

Thecoverage of the COMACOprogramismainly around national parks and protected forest areas in the Luangwa valleyand Lower Zambezi basins (see map below, click map to enlarge). COMACOencourages and maintains sufficient involvementof local residents to build increased community commitment and capacity to conserve watershed and wildlife resources. COMACO has set up four regional offices situated in Lundazi, Mambwe, Luangwa and Chama districts.

The Lundazi Regional office was the first to be established with the inception of the COMACO program in 2002. It is also the largest of the four regional offices. The operational areas for the Lundazi regional office lie in the Musalangu,Lumimba and parts of Munyamadzi Game Management areas (GMA). These areas,usually refered to as the valley areas, fall under the rulership of various chiefs. Chikwa, Chifunnda, Kazembe, Chitungulu and Nabwalya are the chief's areas that under the Lundazi office. The office also has other areas in the plateau areas of Lundazi district. These areas include Magodi, Zumwanda, Chikomeni and Mwasemphangwe. The office has a CTC and 14 satellite trading depots.

The second largest office is situated in Mambwe district in Mfuwe. Mfuwe is one of the tourist destinations in the country. The areas under this regional office are in the Lumimba, Lupande and Sandwe GMAs. The chiefdoms in these areas are Kakumbi, Nsefu, M'nkhanya, Malama, Mwanya, and Msoro. The CTClocated at Masumbacoordinates 8 producer trading depots.

The Feira regional office was established to extend the COMACO interventions around the Lower Zambezi National Park and within the Rufunsa, Luano and West Petauke GMAs. The Feira office has set up a number of COMACO programs in Mburuma, Mphuka, Mphanshya, Nyalugwe, Shikabeta and Bunda bunda chiefdoms. The CTC at Feira is still in its infancy and has largely depended on the Lundazi CTC for most of the necessary Food processing. Six trading depots have been establishedin the project areato facilitate the provision of trading and extension services.

The Chama regional office caters for the Kambombo and Tembwe areas in West Musalangu GMA. A CTC has not yet been set up though the trading depot at Chama coordinatesactivities for the region.

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