Project summary
The project’s overall aim is to reduce maternal and child malnutrition and gender inequality in the rural areas of the municipality of Batallas. It combines two strategies: strengthening women’s leadership through mentoring and training, and improving food security by setting up family vegetable gardens in the communities of Karhuiza, Huayrocondo and Cutusuma.
Areas of work
- Access to water for irrigation: construction of 15 wells and tanks and the installation of extraction pumps and drip irrigation.
- Crop production: construction of 15 greenhouses and 15 worm composting beds to produce humus, soil management and conservation, organic production, and the distribution of seeds and backpack sprayers.
- Training: training in farming and sales, and the development of marketing skills.
- Nutrition: nutrition practices with a gender focus and monthly workshops run by a nutritionist.
- Gender equality: workshops on SDG 5 and the 2030 Agenda, awareness-raising and social marketing activities.
- Produce fair to showcase the project’s results.
Results
- 130 people in the Batallas community have improved the quantity and variety of food in their diet.
- 15 family vegetable gardens equipped and productive.
- Farming, sales and marketing skills developed among the rural women.
- Progress on gender equality and women’s empowerment across the three communities.
