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Swaziland Experience in the Use of Agric Input Vouchers
Support to Farmers.Draft study
FANRPAN Dialogue &AGM-2-5 September 2008
Lilongwe- Malawi
Situation Analysis:• small land-locked country (17,364KM2)
• population is 927,718 (1997 census) 1m.
• lower-middle income economy .
• 69% of populatn below poverty line of E71.00 (~US$10.00) per month
• HIV prevalence- 26% (DHS- 2006/07).
• Kingdom headed by HMK Mswati III
Situation Analysis Co3n’t.
• HMK- judicial, executive & legislative Powers
• Parliament constituted-House of Assembly 65 seats & House of Senate with 30.
• system is not a multi-party based.
• Government headed by the P.M. DP HMK
• Ministers appointed HMK advice of P.M.
• 26th of July 2005 a new Constitution
Land Ownership:
• Swazi Nation Land (SNL)-held by HMK on behalf of the Swazi people- Subsistence- no irrigation.
• TDL- Individual Tenure Farms- commercial- irrigation facilities.
Drought:
• 2 out 4 regions never recorded a good harvest since 1992.
• Swd declared drought a disaster
• Relief task force-the Disaster Task Force. Now-National Disaster Managn’t Agency.
Food Distribution
• Institutionalized for more than a decade, as a response to food crises & chronic food insecurity.
• Partners- NDMA, WFP, VAC, NGOs
• Targeting- VAC assessments, NDMA, NGOs.
Food and Inputs 4 Child-Headed H.H as a Social Protection
Intervention Project:
• JICA committed a total of E24 m ($3 m) over 3 years – start 2004 season
• to be used in source food and agricultural inputs, materials.
• Aim- support food security, and preserve home assets of selected child-headed households in the 4 regions.
• Govn’t purchased inputs & delivered them.
Emergency Drought Response project- Save the Children Swd& UK
• humanitarian response to food crisis due to drought & forest fires in 2007/08.
• Combined food aid & cash transfers.
• Targeting : VAC Participatory techniques of proportional piling- Most Vuln-Middle wealth& well-off.
• M&E has interesting results.
restore smallholder crop production- Agricultural
(ITFs) • MOAC requested FAO to assist 50 000
households inputs.
• FAO supported 30 000 HH, EU 20 000, WV- 2120 . Vouchers $43/ hh- E300
• ITF- in 25 Tinkhundla centers
• Targeting VAC assessments NDMA, NGOs, WFP and FAO.