| Summary: | Management complexity of the project increased as this period focused on the setting up of
the innovative market linkage component and farming as a business training to serve 37 Cycle 1
Growing Futures Clubs (GFCs), while year 1 trainings and dissemination of the planting materials
in the gender-transformative, climate-smart agriculture-nutrition-savings components of
the two-year intervention for the 72 Cycle 2 GFCs took off. The 2024 agricultural season
experienced more than 40 days of drought during July-August, affecting demonstration plots
and reducing yields, but also highlighting the greater resilience of orange-fleshed sweetpotato
(OFSP) compared to maize. Monitoring efforts indicate that the gender-transformative approach
is positively influencing dietary behaviors and gender relations within many households.
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