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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Kasungu

Lilongwe

Mangochi

Chitipa

Rumphi

Dedza

Dowa

Chikwawa

Ntcheu

Mchinji

Zomba

Machinga

Karonga

Nkhotakota

Nkhata Bay

Salima

Balaka

Ntchisi

Mwanza

Nsanje

MulanjeThyolo

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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