Mozambique - Women's Entrepreneurship and Skills Development for Food Security - Pilot Project

The Food Security Support and Gender Entrepreneurship Development Pilot Project will support 4,500 women in 8 districts in two provinces. It seeks to contribute to mitigating food insecurity amongst rural smallholder farmer households by reducing post-harvest losses and empowering them with entrepreneurial skills. The project will comprise two components: 1) Rural Livelihoods Skills Promotion and Marketing Support component will provide entrepreneurship and business management training, technical skills training in selected agro processing activities, and support to marketing activities and private sector linkage development. 2) Institutional Support component will provide training in project management, computer software skills, to the DNM office as well as the Provincial and District MMAS office and eight District agriculture offices. The component will also provide office automation and transportation for monitoring and evaluation at the community level. The total project cost is estimated at UA 2.81 million or MZM 80.53 billion.