Millennium Villages

Background & Justification Millennium Village Program in Mozambique was initiated in 2007 Chibuto (Gaza) was the first MV to be launched, followed by Lumbo (Nampula, w/ PT funding) Three more villages are being added with Japanese funding (Lionde, Malua and Intoculo)

Problem to be Addressed Poverty: chronic hunger, disease (malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis), income poverty, and poor access to clean water, health care, education, essential medicines, electricity, sanitation, communication; limited access to market, capital, inputs and services including the availability of quality seeds and planting material; poor storage and distribution capacities for fertilizers and other agricultural inputs; limited access to land security; limited access to credit

Link to National Strategies MVs are being set within principle of MDG-based planning …. …and link to National Strategies: with PARPA II ( ) providing a building block … and linking to existing decentralized planning tools to ensure sustainability and sectoral anchorage of project interventions

Project Strategy The MV project is a JP implemented in close partnership with the following agencies; –WHO: interventions on HIV/AIDS, Malaria and nutrition activities –UNESCO: educational packages and rehabilitation of school facilities and provision of learning materials Community Multi-Media Centers, ICT, and cultural activities –UNFPA: HIV/AIDS initiatives gender equality and women empowerment; and maternal health improvement

Sustainability The MV project is being implemented within the framework of national programme for Mozambique’s MVs This is NEX, which makes it quite different from other MVs in the region. This is not DEX by NY There is a strong emphasis on sustainability through linkages with district planning and budgeting and knowledge management

Specific Objectives include: Eliminate hunger and malnutrition in the communities; Improve livelihoods of women and men and increase their incomes Ensure full primary school attendance for both boys and girls and eliminate gender disparity, including rehabilitation of infrastructure Improve access to medical services

Specific Objectives (cont.) Decrease the rate of infection of HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other major diseases Increase access to energy, clean air, water and sanitation for households, schools and medical services Eliminate the digital divide by making available the benefits of communication technologies, especially access to Internet and mobile telephones services

Outputs being observed People are beginning to think that they are in control of their lives based on the use of scientific, technological and socio-cultural knowledge people are dressing problems of: hunger and malnutrition; extreme poverty; limited access to primary school and gender disparity; poor access to medical services

Chibuto MV as an example Original name of MV is Samora Machel which has about 13,000 populations. MV has no water distribution system, but there are 10 wells around the village. MV has connected electricity grid in December 2007, however it utilizes only for public purposes.

Chibuto MV has Pilot Farm The Pilot Farm It has about 10 ha area. It is owned by agricultural association of MV. The association has more about 300 ha for farming. However, they can’t use the remaining farm area due to the limitation of water They plant mainly maize and vegetables in Pilot Farm. Some variety of rice is now trial phase

Farm Characteristics Pilot Farm use spring water from underground. The water is available in a small scale canal in all season. However, water capacity is able to cover only 10 ha. There are two pumps in Pilot Farm. One is diesel type and another is man-power. There are two rivers, however it is difficult to use irrigation because water flow is very limited and further there is no water in dry season in the closest river (Changane) There were two irrigation systems from Limpopo to MV. Older one is pump-up and canal style. The canal was damaged by flood. Newly one is pump-up and underground pipe style. It was also damage by flood in year They said, even pump has damaged, underground pipes are still available. Introduction of Solar energy and rehabilitation of the irrigation system will change people's lives completely