Millennium Villages

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Millennium Villages
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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)

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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

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Link to National Strategies

• MVs are being set within principle of MDG-based
  planning .
• and link to National Strategies with PARPA II
  (2006-2010 ) providing a building block
• and linking to existing decentralized planning
  tools to ensure sustainability and sectoral
  anchorage of project interventions

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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

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Sustainability

• The MV project is being implemented within the
  framework of national programme for Mozambiques
  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

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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

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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

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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
  

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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.

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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 cant 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

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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 2000.  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