Statusrapport
Mid-Term Review of the Development Fund of Norway’s Malawi & Zambia (MAZA) Sustainable Agriculture Programme
The Development Fund of Norway (DF) has been implementing Sustainable Agriculture Programme with local and international partners - Find Your Feet (FYF), Network for Youth Development (NfYD), Mzuzu Agricultural Development Division (MZADD), and Trustees of Agricultural Promotion Programme (TAPP) since January 2012. The goal of the Programme is to improve the food security for 39,000 households in Rumphi, Nkhata Bay and Mzimba districts in the Northern region and Dowa and Ntchisi in Central region by 2016. Specifically the Programme focuses at achieving 5 expected results: (i) implementation of sustainable agriculture (SA) techniques by small scale farmers; (ii) Increasing households’ food sources; (iii) Increasing access to market for small-scale farmers; (iv) Strengthening local institutions and organizations, and; (v) Ensuring that women are benefiting at all levels of project implementation. As the Malawi-Zambia (MA-ZA) Sustainable Agriculture Programme has been implemented for around 2,5 years now, a mid-term review was commissioned by DF to assess the progress made and make adjustments, if necessary, to enable the Programme achieve its goals by the end of the Programme period in 2016. This draft report presents preliminary findings of the mid-term review that was conducted between August and September 2014. The main objective of the mid-term review was to assess the progress of the MAZA Programme against stated outputs in order to establish beneficiaries’ satisfaction with the Programme interventions.