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elf Help Africa is engaged in a combination of directly
with the government’s current Growth and Development
implemented and partner-led projects in Malawi. The
Strategy II. A total of 1.2 million is being invested by Self Help
programme goal, to support smallholder farming
Africa in the following projects, this year:
MALAWI
communities to achieve sustainability livelihoods is in line
Programme
Total Budget
Donor
Timeframe
Implementing Partner
Programme Area
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DISCOVER
The Department for International Development (DFID), Irish Aid, Norwegian Embassy
€ 1,936,473
01-08-11 31-05-15
Concern Universal, Goal, Cooperazione Internazionale (COOPI)
Karonga
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Farm Enterprise Development for Food and Economic Security
Irish Aid
€ 648,384
01-01-12
Foundation for Community Support Services (FOCUS), Karonga Agriculture Development Division (KRADD)
Chitipa, Lilongwe
Mtukula Fund
DFID, Vitol Foundation
Trustees of Agriculture Promotion Programme (TAPP), Agricultural and Natural Resources Management Consortium (ANARMAC)
Dowa, Salima
Malawi Mangoes
Salima
CTA Wageningen
Nationwide
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31-12-15
€ 266,522
01-01-12 01-12-14
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Processing Mangoes into Pulp for Export
African Enterprise Challenge Fund
€ 212,963
Integrated Seed Sector Development Seed Act Review
Irish Aid, Institute of Development Studies
€ 24,258
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D
14-02-13 31-12-15
DISCOVER
01-07-12 01-07-13
In order to assist communities and individuals adapt to climate change the project promotes crop diversification and
eveloping Innovative Solutions with Communities
livestock production, together with sustainable and adaptive
to Overcome Vulnerability (DISCOVER) is a four-
agricultural technologies. In addition SHA is working with
year consortium project seeking to support up to
communities to manage their natural resources and reduce
900,000 rural people to adapt to and mitigate the effects of
the environmental impacts associated with natural disasters
climate change. The project contributes towards reducing
and climate change.
poverty and vulnerability to climate variability through the development and promotion of sustainable livelihoods
Total direct beneficiaries 13,000
management strategies. DISCOVER focuses on building resilience and improving the lives of vulnerable people by enhancing the capacity
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of local government to prepare and respond to climate variability. SHA is working with local government to achieve this through developing, updating and reviewing district disaster risk management plans & hazard vulnerability maps; training communities on disaster response; and establishing community early warning systems for flood and drought
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prone areas.
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FARM ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT FOR FOOD AND ECONOMIC SECURITY shortage of good quality seed when it is needed for planting is a major obstacle that hinders many smallholder farmers in Malawi from growing a year
round supply of food to support their families.
MALAWI malawi
1. DISCOVER
burkinafaso
ZAMBIA
Lake Malawi, (Lake Nyasa)
ghana
kenya
togo
2. Farm Enterprise Development for Food and Economic Security 3. MAEF 4. Processing Mangoes into Pulp for Export
OUR PROGRAMMES
zambia
Lilongwe
5. ISSD
MA MA ALAWI Blantyre
MOZAMBIQUE SHA and partners, FOCUS and KRADD, are implementing this
Activities that maximize the potential to improve agricultural
project in the Central and Northern regions of Malawi. The
productivity and agri-business, and that can be scaled up and
work is designed to increase household food, nutrition and
replicated by smallholder farmers are favoured for support by
economic security in the targeted communities in Chitipa and
the fund. Women farmers in the agricultural value chain was
Lilongwe. It addresses this challenge by improving the access
the focus for proposals, last year.
for smallholder farmers to quality seeds. Both production and market constraints faced by smallholder farmers are being
SHA is supporting two separate initiatives in Malawi under
addressed by ensuring continuous availability of quality seed
the MAEF fund. In Dowa District the Trustees of Agriculture
within communities; facilitating access to extension services
Promotion Programme are implementing a two-year broiler
to improve production; and training on value addition skills
chicken and amaranth grain project. The project is working
to help farmers access markets and obtain greater reward for
with 200 female farmers to strengthen the value chains and
their produce.
improve marketing of processed products.
Total direct beneficiaries 5,900
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MAEF
tukula Agricultural Enterprise Fund (MAEF) is a grant-making initiative that has been established to promote initiatives that can support
smallholder farmers in Southern Africa to develop rural-based opportunities. The fund was designed to support small-scale farmers to adopt appropriate technologies, diversify their farm skills, increase productivity, and/or add value to the work.
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OUR PROGRAMMES
In Salima the Agricultural and Natural Resources Management Consortium is working with smallholder farmers to produce and market improved mango varieties. The promotion of mango cultivation, processing and marketing in Salima, where there is high potential, will boost production, address issues of seasonal gluts and raise the income levels of the 500 female farmers participating in the project.
INTEGRATED SEED SECTOR DEVELOPMENT AND SEED ACT REVIEW
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he objective of this project is to improve farmers’ access to quality seed to increase crop productivity and production.
The project is exploring the policy context and potential
Total direct beneficiaries 700
impact of ISSD in nine African countries, including Malawi. It focuses on issues around local seed entrepreneurship and links between formal and informal seed systems and on the enabling environment that needs to be put in place to ensure
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PROCESSING MANGOES INTO PULP FOR EXPORT
local businesses can flourish. The ISSD Malawi project is conducting a survey to assess the
alawi Mangoes Ltd has secured funding from the
practices, programmes and policies of seed entrepreneurs;
African Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) for the
is exploring ways in which programmes that promote seed
implementation of the Processing Mangoes into
entrepreneurship can be strengthened; and is enhancing the
Pulp for Export Project. Part of the project seeks to work with
capacity of a wide variety of stakeholders to promote seed
smallholder farmers, community groups and local government
entrepreneurship.
agencies to support the production and supply of improved quality fruit to Malawi Mangoes for processing. The project
The seed regulation framework and Seed Act in Malawi are
aims to bring about a tangible and significant change in the
out dated and need to be reviewed in the context of the
economic status of smallholder farmers by supporting the
current seed policy changes in country. This is recognised as a
production of mango fruit in the region.
priority by the Department of Agriculture Research Services. SHA is working to submit a draft seed regulation framework
SHA is leading in the implementation of the smallholder
and Seed Act to Government, and will assist the Ministry of
farmer component of the project, which seeks to contribute
Justice and Attorney General in submitting both to Parliament
towards agricultural commercialisation. The project will
for approval.
increase smallholder productivity and household income through value addition and offer better market access. Smallholder farmers will be organised into farmer groups that enable them trade collectively and therefore competitively in the mango value chains. The project will also broaden participation of smallholder farmers in Salima in the mango value chain through production of improved mangoes, the provision of training and market access.
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Total direct beneficiaries 5,000
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