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European Union Funds Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) project under CHC and Oxfam
European Union has granted funds to Oxfam and Catholic Health Commission (CHC) through the Government of Malawi (GoM) to the tune of EUR 1.5 million to implement a 3 years (December 2016 - November 2019) Nutrition and Food Security project “Enhancing the Capacity of Civil Society Organisations, district level staff and communities in scaling up nutrition in Malawi.” This project is under FIDP phase 2 SUN component aimed at contributing towards improved nutritional status of rural households in Malawi.
There will be capacity enhancement of rural households and district level staff to enable them address nutrition issues related to agriculture and Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) 1,000 days initiatives implementation in the targeted districts. The action will benefit about 26,000 households in four districts of Salima (T/As Kambwiri and Kambalame), Nkhotakota (T/As Mwadzama and Malengachanzi), Lilongwe in T/A Chitekwele and Dowa in T/A Mkukula.
EU and Malawi launch innovative programmes
Neven Mimica, Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, and Arthur Peter Mutharika, President of Malawi, signed important agreements in the areas of Agriculture and Nutrition, which will contribute to Malawi's progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
At this occasion, Commissioner Mimica said: "By launching these programmes worth €185 million today, will have a real impact in people's lives and for sustainable agriculture in Malawi. They will do so by increasing agricultural production, helping farmers adapt to climate change and breaking the annual cycle of food insecurity. Through the first programme we will reduce the vulnerability of about 400.000 productive smallholder farmers – through improving smart agriculture technologies, access to markets and credit. With the help of the second programme we will address undernutrition of people: our comprehensive response will cover agricultural diversification, school meals, behavioural change and governance. The two programmes are strongly interconnected in order to achieve the highest possible impact."
