📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: HKI - Helen Keller Intl.
Country: Mosambik Funding amount: € 1.800.000,00 Project start: 01.12.2024 End: 31.12.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The project aims to improve the food security and nutrition, incomes and livelihoods, and social and economic empowerment of women, girls, their families, and communities in the Muanza and Nhamatanda Districts through gender-transformative interventions by 2027.
Expected results
(1) Increased agricultural productivity and income of women smallholder farmers in vulnerable and food insecure communities through the application of climate-smart agricultural practices and enhanced capabilities to cope with crises and natural disasters.
(2) Women and adolescent girls are empowered and have agency to influence community and household decisions that affect their livelihoods and wellbeing.
Target group / Beneficiaries
The project targets most vulnerable households in the districts of Muanza and Nhamatanda in Sofala Province with a particular focus on women, pregnant women, lactating women, children under the age of 5 years, and adolescent girls.
The project will directly benefit 6,000 women participating in agriculture, VSLA and livelihoods activities, 30,000 mothers targeted through nutrition and WASH counseling, 20,000 children under five involved in nutrition interventions, 10,000 adolescent girls, 2,600 participants in gender-transformative activities, 200 Community Health Workers (CHWs) and an additional 40,000 individuals are expected to be reached indirectly through media campaigns, village-level campaigns, and awareness-raising activities. In total the project aims to reach 68,800 direct beneficiaries.
The project will be implemented in cooperation with two local partner organizations. ADEL Sofala, a Mozambican non-profit organization dedicated to socioeconomic development and poverty reduction, will lead initiatives related to agriculture and livelihood improvement while MAHLAHLE, an organization focused on gender equality, will lead interventions tackling the gender divide and empowering women and adolescent girls.
Activities
- 150 village model (lead) farmers (at least 75 percent women) will be trained on climate- and nutrition-smart agriculture, and in turn train at least 2,250 - 3,000 women farmers.
- 200 villages savings and loans groups will be set up reaching at least 2,400 direct female farmers and adolescent girls.
- 200 community health workers will be trained in nutrition and WASH and receive support to set up and facilitate mother-to-mother support groups reaching in total 30,000 women.
- 20,000 children will be screened for acute malnutrition.
- 2,600 participants (900 men, 900 women, and 800 community leaders and resource persons) will participate in a gender-transformative Nurturing Connections curriculum.
Context
Muanza and Nhamatanda Districts in Sofala Province face high malnutrition rates, especially among children under five an
