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Two Cases: Africare/Malawi and Africare/DRC

Malawi: I-LIFE in 7 Priority Districts in Southern Malawi

5- year $2.9 m MYAP in consortium with seven NGO’s

34,150 MT monetized; 5,650 MT for direct distribution

Focus: Reduce food security among 20,000 vulnerable poor

DRC: JENGA in South Kivu Province

3-year $3.0 m MYAP in consortium with ADRA

13,202 MT monetized; 2,182 for direct distribution

Focus: Reduce food security of 18,000 female-headed households and returnees

Interventions:•Improved varieties•Improved production techniques•Farmer mobilization into production and marketing groups and savings and loans groups•Food for Work for infrastructure •Targeted feeding

Interventions:• Resettlement support• Improved agricultural

practices• Improved market linkages• Rebuilding of irrigation

systems and household storage lost in the conflict

• Targeted feeding

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Examples of the Interventions

Teaching New Farming Techniques i.e, lining, spacing…

5,58 km of canal rehabilitated to irrigate 75 ha for rice cultivation and orchards

Hectares of improved variety of cassava

Irrigation system

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Village Savings and Loans in Malawi

• Members of self-selected groups save money to be a source of loan capital for members to borrow from 228 groups - 70% women

• Provide savings services in communities with no access to formal sector financial services

• Enables members start business ventures in order to build up financial capabilities

Total Cumulative Savings: $169,540

Total cumulative loans: $123,400

Women VSL transaction in progress

Knitting business from VSL proceeds

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NUTRITION: Activities implemented through Care Group

Africare’s Care Group beneficiaries:

• Growth Monitoring• Health Promoters and Care Groups

trained • Lead Mothers trained to provide

education on child care and feeding practices

• Beneficiary mothers involved in market gardening of highly nutritious crops

Support to HIV/AIDS Infected and Affected HHs• Mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS

messages in all program interventions

• Linkage of HIV/AIDS support groups with other service providers

• Psycho-social support to PLWA through positive living services

Growth monitoring for under five children

Cooking demonstrations

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Supporting and Empowering Women

Women VSL transaction in progress Growth monitoring for under five children

Cooking demonstrationsProud woman business owner

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Some Achievements of the Malawi Project

50% reduction in the number of underweight children

Almost 90% of beneficiaries purchased improved crop varieties

100 % adoption of improved agriculture production techniques

2-3 crop cycles per season instead of only 1

9.4 months of food provisioning, up from 6.8 months

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Results from the JENGA Project in the DRC

Some Indicators Baseline FY 10 Target FY 10 AchievedFY 10 Ach. Vs

TargetObservations

# of rural HH benefiting directly from USG interventions 0 1,440 1,740 120.8% Exceeds FY 10 Target

Number of assisted communities with disaster early warning and response systems 0 4 6 150% Exceeds FY 10 Target

Annual yield of target crops

Cassava 12,000 16,200 18 ,179 112.2% Exceeds Target

Maize 1,200 1,680 930.4 55.4%Poor quality seeds and

erratic rains

Number of kilometers of irrigation canals rehabilitated/constructed

0 6.4 5.58 87.2%On track to reach end

project targets

Number of kilometers of feeder roads rehabilitated

NA 8 10 125%Exceeds FY 10 Target

Number of trees planted 0 9,200 20,843 226.6%Exceeds FY 10 Target

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