Livelihoods Programs
Caritas Lesotho’ s livelihood programmes mainly focus on improving agriculture and food security and household economic strengthening through the savings-based methodologies.
- Agriculture and Food Security
- Savings groups
- Ponaletso Mobile Record Keeping App
- Our impact at the community level
Empowering households to produce their own food and get proper nutrition.
- We train households on different farming techniques to maximize their vegetable and crop production.
- We provide education on proper nutrition and hygiene.
- We offer guidance on food harvesting and storage.
- We teach households food preservation methods.
Improving access to finance for household consumption smoothing and small business development
- We support community members to group themselves into self-selecting savings groups using the Savings Internal Lending Communities Model (SILC).
- We train the groups and help them to develop their constitutions, how to conduct their meetings and record keeping.
- We link the groups to the financial institutions and Mobile Money Operators for safekeeping of their funds.
- We monitor the groups to assess compliance to the constitution and growth of their funds.
Improving operational efficiency of savings groups
- We support groups to subscribe to our Mobile Record Keeping App.
- We train the groups to use the App for record keeping.
- We monitor the groups to assess member and group performance.
Our impact at the community level.
- Increased agricultural production at the household level.
- Improved nutrition status among children and people living with HIV.
- Improved access to saving and lending services for household consumption smoothing.
- Improved access to finance for small businesses for start-up and scale-up.
- Improved efficiency of the savings groups.
BENEFICIARIES REACHED BY CARITAS LESOTHO
