Empowering Farmers for Resilience

The NORAD-funded project, Improving Smallholder Resilience through Customised Climate Services, is being implemented in Ethiopia and Malawi to enhance smallholder farmers’ resilience and food security amid climate change. The project aims to improve access to reliable climate information services (CIS) that enable informed agricultural decisions. Specifically, the project will:

• Understand local institutional frameworks, decision-making processes, and the needs and capacities for co-producing CIS relevant to smallholders.

• Co-produce timely, localized, and sustainable climate forecasts and agricultural advisories.

• Establish inclusive, effective, and sustainable CIS delivery mechanisms that integrate into existing structures and provide enabling activities directly to smallholder farmers.

• Conduct a rigorous impact evaluation through a randomised controlled trial (RCT) to assess program impact and scalability.

• Strengthen institutional capacity and facilitate knowledge-sharing for CIS development and dissemination.

The project is implemented in partnership with NORCAP, the Development Fund of Norway, the Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE), and Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI).