Food Security Madagascar Project #54882

Recovery & Resilience

by SEED Madagascar

Project Report | Jul 12, 2023
SEED's People Led Approach

By Lauren Carrick | Programmes and Office Assistant

A fundamental aspect of SEED’s Recovery and Resilience programme is recognising the holistic and interlocking nature of development and capacity building. Thus, SEED’s focus continues to be placed on supporting individuals' and community resilience, helping build their capacity through alleviating some of the barriers that often pose challenges to health and livelihood opportunities.

SEED’s fifth and final round of Emergency Food Distribution has continued supporting community health workers to conduct household visits, helping increase community awareness of, and access to, family planning and maternal and child health services. At the start of Round IV, 100 community health workers received training on family planning and maternal and child healthcare. Next steps aim to further support recovery by tackling malnutrition, improving both health service delivery and promoting positive social behaviour change. SEED will train Community Health Centre (CSB) medical staff and primary caregivers to better prevent, identify and treat child malnutrition. Alongside this, SEED will support community members to adopt changes aimed at reducing the susceptibility of malnutrition. This new direction lends greater emphasis on community resilience, helping the charities transition from emergency humanitarian assistance to supporting the long-term development of communities.

Additionally, to help build individual capacity and resilience, SEED’s sustainable livelihoods programs are ongoing, helping support a range of livelihood opportunities. SEED’s Renitantely program continues supporting beekeepers to capitalise on market opportunities and provide them with training to improve technical and entrepreneurial skills. Having been key contributors to the previous phases success, local technicians will provide beekeepers with personalised support during monthly monitoring visits helping beekeepers manage hives independently.

SEED envisages communities thriving across Madagascar and works continuously to help alleviate barriers and provide support in health, education and sustainable livelihoods. Thank you for your interest!

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Mar 16, 2023
SEED's Long-Term Commitment

By Ioannis Alexandrou | Programmes and Office Assistant

Recognising that Madagascar remains one of the poorest countries on Earth whilst supporting a natural and living environment that has a worldwide significance, SEED has remained committed for over 20 years to promoting sustainable livelihoods solutions through a bottom-up collaborative model.

Staffed by a talented multidisciplinary team, SEED has four programmatic objectives: 1) to advance education amongst the inhabitants of Madagascar, 2) to relieve poverty, 3) to promote sustainable development for the benefit of the public, and 4) to develop the capacity of disadvantaged communities in such a way that they are better able to identify, and meet, their needs.

From having a permanent base in the country, SEED has accumulated a wealth of experience in identifying needs and delivering projects to local communities. This is valued not only by those communities, but also others who from time to time seek to do like-minded work in Madagascar. SEED is now planning the next step in terms of strategy: By utilizing this experience and expertise, the organisation is turning towards Recovery & Resilience (R&R).

While normal delivery of our projects will continue, we are starting to progressively transition towards developing long-term, sustainable strategies by building the capacity of local communities. ‘Community capacity’ refers to the range of resources and knowledge people have to develop, implement, and sustain their own solutions to their everyday needs.

In this way, SEED aspires not only to promote sustainable development in some of the most vulnerable regions in Madagascar, but also to give ownership to local communities by providing them with the essential education and know-how with the prospect of becoming self-sufficient in the future. With this new strategy, SEED will continue to ‘put the last first’, giving voice to the long-suffering people of southeast Madagascar.

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Nov 17, 2022
Confidence, Contraceptives, and Cultivation

By Nancy Priede | Programmes and Office Assistant

Weavers listening to Paula during a workshop

Previously, We updated you on the increasing family planning services of the Emergency Food Distribution and the 2,300 women and girls making use of these. These services ensure families in the community can build the lives they envision without being held back by the worries or barriers of poor health and we have seen the effects of these services continue to show. There has been a heightened use of contraceptives and antenatal care and SEED has added plans to go even further with health workers receiving maternal and child health training this month!

Similar to health, education is vital to building resilient communities and SEED understands the importance of a safe learning environment. Cycle Emnati caused the team to recently make repairs on the damaged roof of a primary school and has made the proper alterations to our building design which will protect against the increasing impacts of extreme weather events and climate change in Madagascar. Additionally, we are excited to announce a new primary school building construction project in Beraketa that will create a healthy learning environment for 129 students in 2023! Our other projects are also displaying the importance of education in a resilient community: over 80 women at the Mahampy Weavers’ Cooperative exemplified enthusiasm attending reading and writing workshops held by Project Coordinator Paula (pictured). They have also improved their confidence, knowledge, and skills in their departmental roles in time for the busy holiday season.

Donations toward recovery and resilience have empowered women in the community to open up the conversation on family planning and health, ensured children have the opportunity to learn safely, and improved the confidence and literary skills of workers. SEED thanks you for being a part of uplifting and strengthening the communities of Anosy and we look forward to updating you on how our other projects are doing the same.

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