Maisha Bora - Belgian Food Security Programme for the Districts Longido and Simanjiro - nutrition component

The proposed 5-year project will contribute to the development objective of improved food security of households in 15 targeted villages in Longido District in Arusha Region and Simanjiro District in Manyara Region. The proposed 5-year project will contribute to the development objective of improved food security of households in 15 targeted villages in Longido District in Arusha Region and Simanjiro District in Manyara Region. The specific objective that the project aims to achieve is: "higher and more secured income used for nutrition and improved local availability of food for 9,000 households in 15 villages in Simanjiro and Longido districts, and in particular for the 40% of impoverished households, women and youth." The multi-stakeholder programme team will be called "Maisha Bora" (or "Good Life"), with partner organisations contributing to different components of the programme based on each partner's area of expertise. The components are closely linked and will feed into each other in such a way as to create synergies and results that are greater than the sum of its parts. Within this broad, high-level framework, WFP will be responsible for component 3 – nutrition. In particular, the objective of this component is: "more households, and in particular more pregnant and lactating women (PLWs) and children under 5, will consume more diversified foods, use cleaner water, prevent and treat diarrhoea effectively and have increased awareness of HIV prevention."

The specific objective that the project aims to achieve is: "higher and more secured income used for nutrition and improved local availability of food for 9,000 households in 15 villages in Simanjiro and Longido districts, and in particular for the 40% of impoverished households, women and youth."