Objective: The programme will move beyond food security and subsistence farming, lifting people’s sights to growth and scale at cooperative level.

T he new programme takes an ambitious path to consolidate the previously separate energy and resilience programmes and integrate them in a multi-sectoral approach, recognising that communities’ needs require a holistic response to achieve their aims.

35,000 households 210,000 indirect beneficiaries

Objective: Improved knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to nutrition and hygiene and Strengthened resilience of households and communities to food insecurity

Improving the nutritional status and resilience to food crises of people in Dedza district who are vulnerable to nutrition insecurity, specifically 18,277 children under-two and 11,770 pregnant and lactating women.

30,047 participants

Objective: Provide access to cleaner cooking technologies for over a minimum of 50,000 households

The projects combines the cookstove project with integrated WASH programming, targeting some of the poorest rural and peri-urban communities in the southern region.

As well as realising over 1 million carbon credits, the project will also have a number of other social, economic and environmental impacts, such as reduction in fuel collection time, income-generating opportunities for production groups and agents, reductions in forest degradation, as we as improved access to safe water, resulting in lower incidences of waterborne diseases. This effort is spearheaded by the National Cookstove Steering Committee, which is chaired by the Department of Energy Affairs, with Self Help Africa/United Purpose acting as the Secretariat.

50,000 households

Objective: To contribute towards a significant reduction in poverty, gender inequality, and stunting in Dedza and Balaka.

With the financial support of the Australian government through Action On Poverty (AOP), SHA facilitated the Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoe (OFSP) value chain interventions by supporting 4,000 farmers (2,000 men and 2,000 women) in Balaka. The project focused on promoting OFSP production, preparation and utilisation of OFSP products. In this phase, the project focused on firstly supporting year-round production with the promotion of drip irrigation; second, by empowering women economically through entrepreneurship training and connections to VSL groups; third, by strengthening farmers’ clubs and associations with marketing capacity building; and fourth, by facilitating local OFSP value addition opportunities, including partnerships with small bakeries and processors.

Objective: Improve health, gender equality and resilient livelihoods through sustainable and accountable WASH service delivery in communities, schools and Health Care Facilities (HCF) in Dowa District.

The Dowa-WASH project aims to improve health, gender equality and resilient livelihoods through sustainable and accountable WASH service delivery in communities, schools and Health Care Facilities (HCF) in Dowa District. This in turn supports Dowa District to achieve SDG 6: ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

Total Planned Number Of Water Point Outputs: 170

Total Planned Number Of Daily Water Users To Be Served: 69,719

Planned Number Of Unique Daily Water Users To Be Served: 68,560

Objective: To boost the vaccine uptake in the selected district(s): COVID-19 vaccine demand related; focused on priority groups (e.g., youths, elderly, CHWs etc.) leading to increased uptake as well as strengthened overall immunization systems.

The project took a health system strengthening and integrated social mobilisation approach and aimed to support the roll-out of the COVID-19 national vaccination campaign in Malawi and strengthen the health system’s resilience to epidemic outbreaks intervening at both national and district level.

To do so, UP/SHA and its consortium partners built the capacities of national and subnational healthcare authorities and healthcare workers. This contributed to strengthening the health system and its resilience, scaled-up existing Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) and COVID-19 (C-19) vaccine sensitisation efforts at national, district and community levels in order to counteract mistrust and disinformation campaigns. It also increased communities’ awareness of the national campaign and trust towards vaccination as well as understanding its importance, provided technical support to district health offices for improved COVID-19 vaccination planning, and implementation, including development of vaccine communication and engagement plans, priority groups mapping and pre-registration, and coordination. It further ensured quality and timely monitoring to prevent possible collateral damage due to the campaigns (which included prompt monitoring and reporting of any adverse events following immunisation - AEFI). The combined result of these activities led to improved effectiveness and efficiency of the national COVID-19 deployment plan. In Dedza district, all targeted health facilities were able to utilise vaccine doses before expiry dates, unlike for many districts in the country.

12,552 individuals fully immunized, comprising 7,936 women and 4,616 men.

19,001 COVID-19 vaccine doses were administered through the project’s interventions.

Objective: Provide access to cleaner cooking technologies for over a minimum of 50,000 households

The programme’s overall objective is to provide access to cleaner cooking technologies for over a minimum of 50,000 households, thereby reducing over 900,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions. Building on the success of previous energy projects that provided access to cleaner cooking technologies, the project initiative employs a direct implementation model targeting Social Cash Transfer (SCT) model participants in Mzimba North, ensuring that the most vulnerable households have access to these technologies, promoting equity and inclusivity. The commercial model targets individuals who can afford to buy a stove at a subsidised price. This integrated approach aims to enhance community resilience, improve health outcomes, and contribute to environmental sustainability by addressing key constraints such as access to clean energy. The programme is designed to be adaptable and responsive, learning from the experiences and feedback from the community and partners to continuously improve the interventions and maximize impact.

50,000 households

Objective: This programme will enable and build substantial carbon sinks and sequestration opportunities, allowing viable returns to both farmers and investors.

The goal of the program is to enhance livelihoods, food security, and resilience to climate change in Malawi by restoring ecosystem services and improving the management of agricultural, pastoral, and forest areas, ultimately contributing to emissions reductions.

Self Help Africa is one of six partners in a consortium led by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) that is implementing the five-year Restore Africa land restoration program, funded by the Global Evergreening Alliance (GEA) with technical support from ICRAF (World Agroforestry). As the implementing partner in Chipita, SHA is covering all 7 Traditional Authorities (T/As) in the district. The project aims to benefit 305,000 households by improving their livelihoods, food security, and resilience to climate change through enhanced ecosystem services and better land management practices.

Objective: The project aimed at increasing knowledge of Water Point Committees and communities about Pipeline/Uptime projects and a need for Service Level Agreements between the Area Mechanic and the Water Point Committee in TA Dzoole and Mkukula.

Pipeline is the umbrella project, looking at wider coverage of maintenance services for all water points of TA Dzoole and Mkukula, Uptime is a pilot for performance-based results payments on 100 water points within these 2 TAs.

304,084 Beneficiaries

Objective: The ‘Capacity Building for Forest Carbon Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) in Zambia and Malawi Forests.

This project aims at providing tools for carbon Monitoring, Verification and Reporting (MVR) at field and management level, development of certification schemes, and strengthen the capacity of Zambia and Malawi governments in managing existing Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) carbon projects and creating new ones.

Objective: The project focuses on sustained access to safe water by applying a WASH systems strengthening approach.

The project will enhances the health and quality of life of tea growers and their communities in Thyolo district

347,633 people living in 244 villages from 5 TAs

Objective: The AMP project in Malawi aims to demonstrate innovative business models that can encourage private sector participation in mini-grid development through piloting Productive Uses of Energy (PUE) on existing minigrids in Malawi.

This project aims to increase energy access by reducing the cost and increasing commercial viability of low-carbon minigrids.

Objective: The project aims to strengthen the capacities of area mechanics, especially in terms of reporting, reviewing service contracts as well as increase uptake in preventative maintenance approach of water points.

This Project will work at developing approaches to professionalize Area Mechanics to support community-based management through service contracts with communities.

Objective: The program aims to increase access to improved energy technologies through demand side subsides.

The project will address the affordability barrier to off-grid solar (OGS) products and improved cooking stoves (ICS) for people in Ultra-poor, vulnerable settings who would otherwise not be reached by commercial markets or existing public institutions.

307,006 Households

Objective: The programme aims to increase energy access to rural and peri-urban households to meet their cooking and lighting needs in a number of districts in Southern, Central, and Northern Malawi.

This project assesses improved access to energy, agricultural inputs, and practises as well as strengthening nutrition security, governance and social accountability and providing support during disasters.

35,000 Households

Objective: The project aims to improve health, gender equality and resilient livelihoods through sustainable and accountable WASH service delivery in communities,schools and Health Care Facilities (HCF) in Dowa District.

DI-WASH 4 aims to improve health, gender equality and resilient livelihoods through sustainable and accountable WASH service delivery in Communities, Schools and Health Care Facilities (HCF) in Dowa District. Thereby supporting Dowa District to achieve SDG 6: ensuring availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.

68,560 Households