DCA´s local partner
organisations work with poor and vulnerable communities to assist them in ensuring food security. A good harvest of maize is important to ensure adequate food as well as income for the rest of the
year. Photo: DCA Malawi
The grant is for a project titled Improving food security through capacity building of civil society organizations in Malawi.
The project is for 18 months and it is implemented in close partnership with DCA's five main local partners in Malawi who are addressing food insecurity among poor and rural
communities.
The objective of the project is to improve skills and capacity of each local partner organization within the areas of working rights-based, utilizing networks and learning opportunities
as well as promoting equal participation and empowerment of women in their daily work with vulnerable rural communities. Field-based mentoring and coaching are key activities.
A minimum of 20 staff from each organization is included in a capacity building process facilitated by external highly qualified consultants. The processes are designed for
three different levels of staff: Field staff, middle management staff and top management staff.
Photo: DCA Malawi
By improving local partner’s skills and capacity within rights-based approach and other
key methods, it is the overall aim to enhance an active participation of the vulnerable rural poor households in community development and to enable them to claim their rights and in turn achieve
sustainable sufficient and nutritious food for these households.
Photo: DCA Malawi
The targeted local partner organizations are working with food security in all three regions of Malawi and this capacity building
project will indirectly benefit more than 100,000 vulnerable poor people in the impact areas of the organizations, including the districts of Nsanje, Chikwawa, Dowa, Mzimba and Rumphi.
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