OpenAID - AICS - XM-DAC-6-4-013244-05-3

LOD data

Promoting a resilient, innovative, and equitable food system in Malawi

Malawi

Status

Implementation

Aid type

Project-type interventions

Malawi

Location

€ 2,000,000
Committed

€ 0
Used

Description

Save the Children Italy (STC IT) is applying to the AICS Promosso 2023 Call with 36 months, on Lot. 2, Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture, titled Promoting a resilient, innovative, and equitable food system in Malawi, implemented in the Southern Region, Zomba District, Traditional Authorities (TAs) of Kuntumanje and Malemia. Target group is smallholder farmers with less than half hectare of land with a prevalence (60%) of women, youth engaged in micro-enterprises and public extension workers from the agriculture, irrigation, and veterinary departments, for a total of more than 45.000 persons directly benefitting from project activities. The action aims at climate change adaptation by responding to three main constrains most vulnerable farmers encounter to enhance food security and nutrition in Malawi: 1) low adoption of cost-saving and sustainable agricultural practices, 2) low economic diversification, limiting the development of resilient and sustainable livelihoods, and 3) limited access to profitable input and output markets, including access to credit. To this end, the project promotes three interrelated intervention areas, corresponding to the OECD-DAC sectors of Agricultural training/education (31181), Agricultural development (31120) and Agricultural cooperatives (31194): first, supporting sustainable innovation in natural resource management (NRM) through agroecology and climate smart practices, via building knowledge and capacity of famers in agroecological practices and expanding use of digital tools for learning (Result 1). Second, via sustainable intensification, strengthening access to key productive inputs, namely seeds and water, the latter expanding small-scale irrigation schemes including innovative work on precision and drip-irrigation; and via promoting livelihoods diversification (Result 2). Third, supporting agricultural commercialization through farmers organizations strengthening and access to input and outputs markets included credit (Result 3). The combined result of these complementary actions will be an increase in food production and income of target groups (specific objective). In turn, this will contribute to food and nutrition security among most vulnerable (overall objective). STC IT with SCI Malawi is leading a consortium comprising two local NGOs specialized in the field of natural resource management and agroecology: Total Land Care and Kusamala Institute of Agriculture and Ecology, and the Italian company Irritec, a leading player in precision irrigation, which will contribute its specialized know-how to water efficiency. The Zomba district authorities, in particular the Irrigation and Agriculture Departments, were actively involved from the design phase of the project, ensuring institutional and technical ownership and sustainability well beyond the duration of the intervention. read more close

Year	Committed	Used
2025	€ 2,000,000	€ 0

Agency

Type	Name	Channel code
Government	AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development	11000

Channel reported

Type	Name	Channel code
National NGO	SAVE THE CHILDREN ITALIA ONG/ON	22000

Project data

IATI IdentifierXM-DAC-6-4-013244-05-3
AID013244/05/3
Planned start 2025/05/01
Planned End 2028/04/30
Actual start -
Actual end -
Bi/Multilateral Bilateral
Status Implementation
Tied status Tied

Sectors

Policy markers

Gender Equality significant objective
Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) significant objective
Disability not targeted
Nutrition principal objective
Aid to Environment significant objective
Participatory Development/Good Governance significant objective
Trade Development significant objective
Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity significant objective
Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change - Mitigation significant objective
Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Framework Convention on Climate Change - Adaptation principal objective
Aid Targeting the Objectives of the Convention to Combat Desertification significant objective
Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) not targeted

SDGs

2.1 - By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
2.2 - By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons
2.3 - By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
2.4 - By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
6.6 - By 2020, protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes
6.a - By 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water- and sanitation-related activities and programmes, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse technologies