International Development Grant
Strengthening Food Security in the Poorest Municipalities
Project Number: CA-3-A035114001
Status: Closed
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $17,000,000.00
Start Date: March 08, 2011
End Date: March 31, 2016
Duration: 5.1 years
Project Description
The project provides support for the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Special Program for Food Security. It aims to improve the food security of vulnerable households in the poorest municipalities in Honduras by promoting their access to food health and nutrition. It also focuses on improving family consumption and utilization of nutritional food and strengthening government and non-government institutions working in the food security and nutrition sectors. Key activities include: providing farmers with best practices and improved technologies for integrated soil and water management; training farmers in diversifying agricultural production to improve family diet; promoting fair access to market opportunities for the poorest farmers; incorporating food and nutrition education into the education system; and strengthening the capacities of food security and nutrition institutions in diagnosis development and implementation of policies and programs as well as in the establishment of information and early warning systems for natural disasters that could impact farmers at municipal levels.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of the end of project March 2016 include: Availability and Access: (1) trained 18 892 producers (24% women) against the project’s target of 10 699 in best practices and technologies to help recover improve and make sustainable local production systems; (2) 957 new family gardens with new crops and fish were introduced to increase sources of income among the participating families; (3) food storage conditions were improved by distributing 6 759 metallic silos; (4) training delivered in sustainable farming techniques and post-harvesting techniques contributed to 98.6% of families having two or more crops (average of seven) and 22.7% producing five to nine crops in their production systems for consumption and or sale; and (5) 830 savings and loans rural banks (CACs) were strengthened who now have a 33% women membership and a total of 12.7 million dollars as circulating capital and providing access to credit to 17 095 people (5 944 are women). Food and Nutrition: (1) strengthened local institutions by training 618 personnel in hygiene diet diversity nutrition and child growth monitoring and training of 800 teachers from 200 schools (70 % women) in Education and Feeding Curricula with guidelines adopted by the Ministry of Education. Institutional Strengthening: (1) the strengthening of the project’s Municipal Food Security and Nutrition Programs (PROMUSANs) strategy resulted in 41 municipalities adopting the PROMUSAN model by prioritizing food security and nutrition actions in their strategic municipal plans and budgeting in their yearly investment plans a total of Can$7.8 million from their own funds to support food security activities; (2) seven Community Technical Institutes supported by the project conducted in joint coordination with the municipalities’ food security extension and technical assistance activities to the population as part of the project’s sustainability strategy; and (3) by the end of the project (March 2016) 89.4% o
Key Information
Executing Agency:
FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
NGM Americas
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Pre-APP