Focus Area 4: Enhanced community resilience to the effects of climate change and variability.
CSP Strategic Framework 2017-2022
Climate change is not a theory, but a reality that Malawians see in their increasingly unpredictable weather and in crops and livelihoods ruined by flood and drought. Working with communities to build resilience is imperative if they are not only to survive, but thrive.
Projects in this area

From forest committees to Self-Help Groups: How MTM Communities continue to transform lives in Rumphi!
In the village of Nkhozi, a small group of women gathers every week under the shade of a large baobab tree. They meet not only to plan forest conservation activities, but also to manage savings and loans that help improve their families’ livelihoods. What started as a forest management initiative

Self Help Group Approach
Since 1st March, 2014, Church and Society Programme, with funding from KNH through the facilitation of Deloitte, has been implementing an empowerment project using Self Help Group Approach (SHGA) in the area of Chief Principal Group Village Headman Jalira and other surrounding areas that include Chanyoli, Bowe and Matunkha in