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  YEAR: 1  

Key Activities:

  • Distribute subsidized fertilizer and improved seeds and train farmers in improved techniques
  • Distribute long-lasting, insecticide- treated bed nets and provide training on proper use
  • Begin rehabilitation and construction of schools, health clinics and water points

Outcomes:

  • Increased food security through increased staple crop yields
  • Decreased prevalence of malaria
  • Improved key facilities
 
  YEAR: 2  

Key Activities:

  • Introduce crop diversification and link farmers to local markets for crop sales
  • Expand locally-sourced school meals program using new crop surpluses
  • Expand disease control for HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other tropical diseases

Outcomes:

  • Increased production of higher value and more nutritious crops
  • Increased school attendance
  • Reduced child mortality and maternal mortality rates
  • Improved health care and disease control
 
  YEAR: 3, 4, 5  

Key Activities:

  • Expand access to agricultural finance and promote business development
  • Extend the electricity grid (where possible) and introduce alternative energy sources
  • Construct and maintain roads
  • Initiate piped water systems and large scale irrigation projects
  • Establish and improve mobile telephone and internet connection

Outcomes:

  • Increased self-financing of agricultural inputs
  • Growth in local business and entrepreneurship
  • Greater access to energy, improved transport and information and communication technologies (ICT)
  • Achievement of Millennium Development Goals for child mortality, education, environment, health, gender equality, maternal mortality and water

 

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