📋 Tender Overview
Country: Mozambique Funding amount: €300,000.00 Start: January 1st, 2024 End: December 31, 2026
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
project goal
The project aims to enhance equitable and sustainable food production and income security for 3,000 vulnerable smallholder farmers affected by climate change through increased gender-equitable and inclusive agricultural livelihoods and income generation activities in Nhamatanda (Mozambique).
expected results
1) Increased knowledge and access to improved inputs, technologies and practices by small scale farmers, especially women and youth;
2) Increased smallholder farmers' productivity of food crops (nutrient dense crops) and cash crops;
3) Increased small scale farmers' access to outputs markets;
4) Diversified smallholder farmers' livelihoods and increased non-agriculture income to cover basic household needs;
5) Established and designed local community adaptation plans by Community-based Natural Resource Management Committees (NRMC);
6) Strengthened adaptive capacity and reduced exposure to climate risks through DRR and ecosystems restoration;
7) Women's needs are heard and taken care of in decision making spaces.
target group
The primary target group for this project are smallholder farmers. The project will directly target 3,000 smallholder farmers, organized into 120 farmer groups, each group with 25 members. Out of the 3,000 beneficiaries, 1,800 (60%) are women; 600 (20%) young people; and 300 (10%) persons with disabilities.
Measures
Key project activities include: organize smallholders' farmers in inclusive farmer field schools, train smallholder farmers in regenerative agriculture practices through demonstration plots and on production of drought tolerant improved seeds; provide manual and solar irrigation pumps and start-up inputs to vulnerable smallholder farmers; link smallholder farmers to inputs suppliers; train smallholder farmers on post-harvest management, train Farmers Market School Facilitators; construct aggregation centers with at least 10 metric tons capacity, establish business link between smallholder farmers and buyers; train women led groups on poultry production and provide start-up kits; train farmers groups/NRMCs on beekeeping and provide start-up kits; establish and train Village Savings and Loans groups, train NRMC on good governance; register (NRMC to be recognized by government authorities; support NRMC to design and implement community-led adaptation action plans; establish and train new disaster risk reduction (DRR) committees; equip DRR committees and link them with early warning system; train smallholder farmers on production of fixed and mobile improved cooking stoves; map degraded native community forest relevant for ecosystems services; set up tree nurseries and conduct forest restoration though cash for work; establish a recognized community conservation area; mobilize and train women and men on Gender Action Learning ( GAL); organize lobby meeting with
