Principal Objective: Support to income/food insecure small farmers who have lost access to the export market while mitigating the food security risk of targeted poor households and social/health institutions.

Specific Objective: Ensure that vulnerable small farmers targeted in the operation are able to sustain their livelihoods while targeted poor households and needy institutions receive a significant part of their fresh food requirement on a regular basis.

Total number of direct beneficiaries: Approximately 65,616 individuals will directly benefit from the project. These are: 1,500 vulnerable small farmers and their families (12,000 individuals), 6,500 households in need (52,000 individuals), and nine social/health care institutions (1,616 individuals).

Indicator(s) and source(s) of verification:

Approx. 1,500 small farmers sell on average up to 50% of their export production during the growing and harvesting season (8 months).
Approx. 1,500 farmers can recuperate more than 100% of the production cost of the produce sold as part of the project intervention.
Approx. 6,500 households and 9 health care centres secure their fresh food requirements for up to 25 weeks.

Result 1, relevant indicator(s) and source(s) of verification: Approx. 1,500 farmers have received income from selling part of their vegetables produced for the export market and have covered their production costs.

Indicators: Purchase of up to 3,435 tons of vegetables from 1,500 farmers at a price above the production costs:

Approx. 1,173 tons of tomatoes
Approx. 838 tons of potatoes
Approx. 503 tons of cucumber
Approx. 418 tons of squash
Approx. 503 tons of eggplant

Result 2, relevant indicator(s) and source(s) of verification: During the growing and harvesting season from October to May, approx. 6,500 households and approx. 1,616 people living in nine social/health institutions are provided with their average weekly vegetable consumption.

Indicators:

Over a period of 25 weeks, approx. 6,500 households are provided with 3,331 tons of fresh food.
Over a period of 25 weeks, approx. 1,616 people resident in 9 social/health care centres are provided with 104 tons of fresh food

Duration

01.09.2006 - 30.06.2007

Donors

ECHO

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