This project began in 2003 and was supported through CARE International. The programme ‘trained NGO trainers’ to train others in Household Gardening and Conservation Farming Practices. A system called ‘Action Learning Cycle’ was trained that helps individuals at community level to identify their local resources and constraints to enable them to create and maintain their household gardens.

Support to the NGO Trainers was offered throughout the project through sharing and support meetings where trainees could discuss problems, successes and failures in the project and overcome obstacles together. The programme reached over 800 people and assisted them to set up household gardens to help achieve household food security.

NGO Scaling Up Food Security for Vulnerable Households

After the success of the LRAP Project a new programme has been devised that uses the methodology of training NGO trainers similarly to the LRAP Project mentioned above. The programme has been extended to include water harvesting, preservation and storage, seed multiplication and tree production, land reclamation, biodiversity conservation and marketing as well as household gardening. The programme is aimed at specifically working with vulnerable households in Lesotho through targeted NGOs. It is designed in-line with the Lesotho Food Security Policy (April, 2005) and funding is currently being sought for this major programme working with 14 NGOs.