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| Project Name: | Inhambane Livelihood Security Project |
| Project Description: |
Inhambane Livelihood Recovery Project (ILRP) (MOZ035) (8/1998-7/2004)
This EU-funded project aims to improve food security among 15,000 rural households (about 90,000
people) in the perennially drought-prone districts of northern Inhambane Province. ILRP increases food productivity, improves markets and strengthens risk management. The project rehabilitates traditional livelihood systems that existed prior the population's forced displacement by Mozambique's prolonged civil war. In this effort, CARE uses an integrated strategy of technical assistance, extension and advocacy in the areas of agriculture, credit and marketing.
ILRP endeavors to reduce the vulnerability of farm households to crop failure and to increase household capacity to cope with natural disasters. Additionally, it seeks to help farm families adapt traditional farming systems to current conditions and use farm-based seed multiplication techniques that are adapted to the semi-arid environment. To stimulate trade, the production of selected cash crops is being re-established. Finally, ILRP helps increase investment capacity and the purchasing power of vulnerable groups by assisting rural women to organize and
operate village-based savings and loan groups.
Strengthening Community Organizations and Rural Empowerment (SCORE) (MOZ035)
Building upon experiences with CBOs with water and sanitation, food security, HIV/AIDS and malaria prevention
activities in northern Inhambane, the SCORE Project aims to develop a viable model of integrated community development that is easily replicable across (and beyond) the project zone by the communities themselves. Although the exact formulation of this model depends on how individual groups define their problems and adapt it to their own contexts, basic capacity building modules include a strong focus on pressing problems related to food security, potable water and health. A project funding mechanism will be established to provide communities with the resources they need to achieve tangible results in these areas. A special emphasis is placed on addressing the problems faced by vulnerable and marginalized groups such as child-headed and women-headed households and households affected by HIV/AIDS. All project interventions are viewed through an HIV/AIDS lens that seeks to understand and better address the short and the long-term development impacts of this terrible pandemic. The philosophy underlying this ambitious project is that a strong civil society is a prerequisite to higher levels of economic growth and that civil society must be able to participate freely and competently in the governance of all matters that affect its well being. CARE will play catalytic and facilitation roles in putting into a place a ''virtuous circle'' that creates lasting and
mutually benefiting synergies among economic, governmental and civil society entities. SCORE will directly reach at least 250 communities during the five-year project life benefiting a total population of 150,000, or about 30,000 households, of which 65% are women headed. Additionally, the project supports the creation of new local NGOs that can continue working with CBOs after the project's end.
Packaging and Processing of Sweet Potato and Cassava (PPOSPC) (MOZ035) (2003-2004)
Funded by DfiD, CARE implements this project as part of ILRP (above) and in close cooperation with
provincial Ministry of Agriculture authorities, a local private company and SARNET, a cassava research network.
The project focuses on about 300 farmers and women's savings groups (9,000 households or 60,300 people) in four
districts of northern Inhambane province. The project's goal is to enhance food security through improved marketing
of agricultural products, and its main aims are: develop an understanding of the social, cultural and technical
constraints related to food preservation in a hot and humid climate; improve local knowledge of processing, preservation and packaging techniques; and improve access to sustainable, low cost and easy to manage
processing and packaging equipment. |
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