Mozambique - Women Green Zones Development Project in Maputo

The Green Zones Women Development Project in Maputo will introduce new training methods and production systems to ensure increased agricultural output. The project is contributing to the Government’s drive towards poverty reduction and gender mainstreaming. It will empower the women cooperative members through acquisition of skills and wealth as well as leadership and ethics training to attain higher status in society. As the subject project will support an autonomous cooperative largely owned and managed by women, it will have favourable impact on government efforts to liberalize the economy as required under the Economic and Social Rehabilitation Programme and, also, it will enhance the contribution of women to Mozambique’s economic development process. The project will contribute to the supply of poultry meat to Maputo and therefore improved the nutrition of the population, including the beneficiaries. The components are (a) Project Management Support (b) Rehabilitation and Construction of Civil Works (c) Agricultural Production Support (d) Credit Inputs; and (e) Technical Assistance. The project will be implemented over a period of five years.