The TRANSFROM project as the name suggests, aims at transforming rural communities by increasing production, productivity, and resilience to climate change, promoting consumption of safe and nutritious foods, and market access and entrepreneurship. The 5-year TRANSFORM project started in 2020 with a one-year inception phase and is expected to phase out in December 2025.

While the project is targeting 150,000 households in Malawi and is being implemented in 5 districts, TAPP is implementing this project in Dowa and is targeting 35,000 households.

Donor and Partners: The Royal Norwegian Embassy (RNE) through the Norwegian Church Aid/Danish Church Aid (NCA/DCA).

Implementation Approach: The project uses several approaches depending on the intervention:

To promote agricultural production, productivity and resilience to climate change, the project uses the lead farmer approach, the farmer field school approach, the adaptive village approach and the Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA)

To promote the consumption of safe and nutritious foods, the project uses the care-group approach

The project uses the farmer organization, village savings and loans association, contract farming and marketing, and collective marketing approaches to market access and entrepreneurship.