Food security for children in Siaya, Kenya
The first objective of the project is: Vulnerable children and their families have access to improved food and nutrition security through the enhancement of climate adaptation and agronomic practices. The activities to be implemented are:
- Support and training for Community-based women’s groups to establish and operate solar-powered mini-irrigation systems on their farmland
- Provide the necessary assistance to households in the targeted villages with unsupported undernourished children under five
- Strengthen the capacities of the members of the women’s groups to allow improved farming practices and farming as a small-scale business.
The second objective is to empower the targeted villages and surrounding communities to initiate local actions on climate adaption, agronomic practices and childhood nutrition, and to this effect, collaborate with local authorities and their community representatives. The activities to be implemented are:
- Villages members get access to information on childhood nutrition, enhanced and locally tested climate adaption and agronomic practices.
- Local authorities, their community representatives, and other community stakeholders engage in disseminating information on climate adaptation, agronomic practices and childhood nutrition and supporting the targeted villages.
- An awareness campaign inspires villages and surrounding communities to take local actions around climate adaptation, agronomic practices and childhood nutrition.
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