Project Regions in Liberia
AAL is in consortium with Actionaid Nigeria and Senegal, implementing a three years Project titled: Strategic Partnership for Agroecology and Climate Justice in West Africa
(SPAC -West Africa).
The project’s outcome is to ensure that women and young people will enjoy food and nutrition security and climate-resilient livelihoods.
Objectives
Improved women and young smallholder farmers’ agencies to build climate resilience by adapting agroecology and the use of ICT for increased household food security, as well as protection in emergency and disaster situations in Liberia.
Counties in Liberia
Strategic Partnership: Ministry of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, National
Disaster Management Agency, Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme Non-State Actors ECOWAS Non-State Actor, Liberia Farmers Union, Rural Women Farmers Forum (RWFF), Network of Farmers and Producers & Organizations in West Africa (ROPPA), Women, Youth Social Enterprises and Activista.
Duration:2023-2025 (3Years)
ActionAid Liberia will directly reach 40,800 people and indirectly reach 254,000 people in three counties.
Beneficiaries & outcome
Enhance capacities of 3,500 women and young smallholder farmers to adopt agroecology and ICT linking consumers to markets to increase income and household food security in three project counties (Gbarpolu, Montserrado, and Bong) in Liberia.
Women and Young people effectively organize their collectives, groups, networks, alliances, and movements to influence policies and actions promoting climate resilience in project counties, reaching 25,000 people through community outreaches and distributing IEC materials.
Through Media awareness and campaigns (including jingles, drama, and live talk shows). AAL will reach 35,000 Women and young people with improved knowledge of humanitarian policies, the capacity to lead policy advocacy leading to enhanced resilience to shocks and disasters, and better protection mechanisms in project counties in emergency, disasters, and crises.