Sofala Province is one of the central Mozambique provinces located on the coastal plain on the eastern side of the country. The project areas are in both Buzi and Chibabava districts. Field operations are managed from a sub-office in Muxungue, Chibabava district that is centrally located in the operational clusters.

The target population in the two target districts (45,401) consisting of 9,435 households distributed in 25 villages may be described generally as vulnerable. The Project pays a special attention to those who are physically marginalized and isolated from urban and rural centres, the powerless, the old and the poor, whose contributions to development and decision making would generally be disregarded, as well as to those communities most affected by floods, recurrent droughts, hunger and epidemics. The project targets the vulnerable groups regardless of gender. In Sofala, women are most vulnerable. Therefore, women-headed households are the targets of interventions aimed at increasing household food security as well as household income.

The goal of the Project is to contribute to the building of viable and sustainable households in Sofala province through improved food security, promotion of Human Rights and healthy lifestyles, and through enhanced capacity to manage the environment.

LWF envisages doing that through the improvement of health and quality of life by building strong household economies through improved food security, promotion of Human Rights and healthy lifestyles and through enhanced capacity to manage the environment. Capacity development for sustainable development is a running theme throughout the implementation of this plan. The project implementation strategy puts a lot of stress on partnership, networking and advocacy.

The key features of the Project includes: vulnerability assessment; community awareness, sensitisation and mobilization for action; strengthening and formation of community structures including organizational and local institution capacity building; peace building; enhanced farming technologies, including improved crop varieties and the introduction of drought resistant crops; enhanced community-managed small scale irrigation systems and small water-holding dams, including rehabilitation of existing ones; improved system of conservation and storage of agricultural products; promotion and development of skills for managing small business enterprise including a special focus on marketing of products; and Training of Trainers. HIV/AIDS prevention, control and management, promotion of the rights of women and disaster preparedness and mitigation are regarded as crosscutting issues.