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Partnership for increased resilience and improved food security in Lao
03-08-2018
Humana Fundación Pueblo para Pueblo, Health Poverty Action, the Khammuane Provincial Health Office and the European Union have everything ready for the implementation of the ’Partnership for Improved Nutrition in Lao PDR-Pillar 3: Partnership for Increased Resilience and Improved Food and Nutrition Security of Vulnerable Communities in Khammuane Province, Lao'.
Its objective is to improve the nutrition and food security of 5,000 vulnerable households distributed in a hundred villages in six districts of Khammuane province.
The purpose is to directly involve 57,000 children under the age of five, 89,000 women of child baring age (including ethnic minority women, women migrant, youth, and women headed households). The project will indirectly benefit some 400,000 other men and women from 583 villages in the province.
Imminent signing of the Memorandum of Understanding
The three entities will imminently sign the so-called Memorandum of Understanding as a preliminary step to start the work in the field. The main activities planned by the project are the following:
- Recruitment and training of 20 Farming Instructors and 3 Community Development Agriculture Facilitators. The recruitment process began last May.
- Training of the trainers who will be in charge of the systems for strengthening rice production.
- Training in animal husbandry and set-up animal pass-on-loan schemes.
- Creation of of 100 Farmers Club that will involve 5,000 farmers together.
- Preparation of 100 demonstration plots for crops farming. Preparation of 100 demonstration vegetable gardens.
- Training on climate-smart agriculture and other sustainable agricultural practices.
- Training of Trainers on System of Rice Intensification.
- Introduction of innovative techniques of food processing, preparation and storage.
During the last months works have been done on the preparation of the action through a program of meetings, workshops and field visits, the recruiting of staff, etc. This preliminary phase is fundamental, given the magnitude of the project and its duration (more than three years).
