Post on 29-Nov-2014
description
Wellness and
Agriculture
for Life Advancement
A food security program supported by Food For Peace (2009-2014)
Goal: Reduced food insecurity of 214,974 chronically food insecure households in 39 Traditional Authorities
within five livelihood zones in Southern Malawi by 2014
SO1: 170,724 vulnerable households have improved maternal and child health, and nutrition status
SO2: 147,500 smallholder farming households have improved livelihood status
SO 3: 273 targeted communities have improved capacity to withstand shocks and stresses
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Mzimba
Kasungu
Lilongwe
Mangochi
Chitipa
Rumphi
Dedza
Dowa
Chikwawa
Ntcheu
Mchinji
Zomba
Machinga
Karonga
Nkhotakota
Nkhata Bay
Salima
Balaka
Ntchisi
Mwanza
Nsanje
MulanjeThyolo
Blantyre PhalombeChiradzulu
Likoma
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ZAMBIA
TANZANIA
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WALA Geographic Coverage
WALA operations
Implementation structures1. Advisory body: CR from each PVO2. CATCH (Consortium Admin. & Tec, coordination Hub)
• Programming : TQC for each sector• Finance/ Admin, • M&E, • Commodities & Monetization
3. TWG for each sector4. PM for each PVO implementing WALA
SYNERGY …Poverty Exterminator!
SO2
SO1SO3 Communities
Gov’t partnersOther
stakeholders
Improved food &
nutrition security
Synergy 1: Nutrition in Conservation Agriculture
1. Food based approach in nutritiona. Increasing production of high nutrient value crops
E.g.: soy beans, ground nuts b. Vegetable gardening. E.g.: orange sweet potato,
fruit trees and other vegetablesc. Post harvest handling. Storage, preservation
methods such as the use of solar dryer technology.
• Training in food processing & preparation during time of harvest /demonstration/
• Irrigation Sites – Plot for Care groups /communal or individual/
Synergy 2: Nutrition in village saving and loan
2. Participation of Care Group members in a village saving and loan scheme
a. Saving/ loan used to start small business: water guard, bed net, sanitation soap; “mandazi”
b. Start microenterprise activities: fish farming, poultry
c. To access agriculture inputs
Synergy 3: Nutrition in direct transitional food assistance to Chronically ill
• Transition of HHs supporting CI and OVCs from direct food assistance to self sufficient productive HHs
1. Specific conservation Ag interventions including participation in irrigation schemes
2. Participation of HHs in microenterprises3. Nutrition counseling, cooking demonstration
and follow-up on their nutritional status
Lessons learned from I-LIFE
• Poor targeting: geographic, beneficiary • Staff lack of vision/ have no clear
understanding on the project goal and their sectors contribution towards the program goal
• Poor planning: – competition for resources-transport, money, time – Wrong view “we don’t need to plan for synergy.
Synergy happens by itself”• Lack of monitoring and reporting mechanisms
170,724 Households
participating in MCHN activities
147,500 smallholder & vulnerable Households
participating in improved crop production
103,400 Households participating in
Village savings & Loan
20,600 Households participating in
agro-enterprise
21,203 Households participating in a time-bound
safety net activities
Promoting synergy: Targeting
Promoting synergy: Planning & monitoring
• Ensure staff at different level have clear understanding about the value of synergy
• Identifying activities for synergy that contribute to the common goal
• Prioritizing key activities for synergy and taking into account the sequence of events
• Develop detailed action plan • Deciding on monitoring indicators and
mechanisms • Follow-up & reporting
Thank you