Malawi Resilience and Disaster Risk Management Project

The development objective of Drought Recovery and Resilience Project for Malawi is to support the government of Malawi to meet the immediate food security and livelihoods restoration needs of the communities affected by drought and promote recovery and resilience in key affected sectors. This project has four components. 1) The first component, Improving Food Security and Sustainable Livelihoods, aims to improve agricultural productivity, enhance cultivated area under assured irrigation and expand livelihood options for vulnerable populations. It ahs the following subcomponents: (a) Meeting Urgent Food Security Needs; (b) Improving Livelihoods and Building Resilience through Input Distribution; (c) Increasing Agriculture Productivity and Resilience; and (d) Climate Smart Irrigation. 2) The second component, Enhancing Drought-Resilience and Preparedness has the following subcomponents: (a) Rehabilitating and Augmenting Critical Water Supply Infrastructure; (b) Strengthening Water Resource and Catchment Management; (c) Strengthening Drought Resilience (Technical Assistance). 3) The third component, Contingent Emergency Response Component, will allow for rapid reallocation of project proceeds in the event of future natural or man-made disaster or crisis that has caused or is likely to imminently cause a major adverse economic and or social impact during the life of the project. 4) The fourth component, Project Management, will finance the project activities.