Zambia has been hosting refugees for more than 30 years now. In the country’s Western Province there are approximately 150,000 refugees with an estimated 35,000 refugees living in the two camps of Nangweshi and Mayukwayukwa, while the remaining 115,000 are not registered by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and are spontaneously settled. The Zambian Government with the support of UNHCR and other partners has since embarked on a poverty reduction strategy called the Zambian Initiative Programme (ZIP). The programme aims at developing refugee host areas and ensuring harmony between refugees and their hosts.