HOCIC has been implementing the Food Assistance for Asset program (FFA) in Umguza and Matobo Districts since 2012.
HOCIC has been implementing the Food Assistance for Asset program (FFA) in Umguza and Matobo Districts since 2012. The objective of the program is to rehabilitate, create and establish assets that will assist in achieving food security in drought prone areas. In 2012, 6 dams, 2 dip tanks and one nutrition garden were established in Umguza. 400 farmers were trained in conservation farming. The program benefited over 5000 food insecure households to become food secure.
In 2013 the program targeted 15 assets. 10 of these were new assets (1 new dam, 7 nutrition gardens, 2 diptanks and 1 water pipeline) and 5 were dams that were rehabilitated. 30 conservation farming demo plots were established in six (6) wards with a total of 7,5ha target for conservation farming through a farmer field school approach. 2457 (1116 males 1341 females) were the total PAC workers. And a total of over 12000 food insecure households benefited from the completed assets. In 2017, one new diptank was constructed, 2 weir dams rehabilitated and 4 nutrition gardens established. At least 6000 food insecure households are benefiting from the diptank, garden and weir dams.
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