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End-of-Project Evaluation Project: Resilient Livelihood Empowering Smallholder Farmers (RELIEF) Implementing Organization : New Apostolic Church Relief Organization (NACRO) Project Duration: 01 October 2025 – 30 September 2026 Project Area: Choma District, Southern Province, Zambia (Simacheche, Nakeempa, Mutandalike and Chilalantambo Wards) 1. Introduction The New Apostolic Church Relief Organization (NACRO) is a faith-based Non-Governmental Organization established in 2002 and registered in Zambia under the NGO Act. NACRO implements development programs in Education, Health, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Household Income, Nutrition and Food Security, and Disaster Mitigation, with gender equality and climate resilience integrated as cross-cutting themes. NACRO seeks to commission an independent external consultant to undertake the End-of-Project evaluation of the Resilient Livelihoods Empowering Smallholder Farmers (RELIEF) Project in order to assess its achievements, effectiveness, impact, sustainability, and lessons learned for future programming. 2. Project Background The RELIEF Project is a 12-month livelihood intervention implemented in Choma District targeting 560 smallholder farmers and an estimated 2,800 direct household beneficiaries. The project was designed to strengthen the resilience and adaptive capacity of farming households affected by climate variability through climate-smart agriculture, improved access to water, crop diversification, organic soil fertility management, and nutrition-sensitive school gardens. Project goal To contribute to improved and resilient livelihoods for 560 smallholder farmers in four wards of Choma District. Main outcomes Increased adoption of climate-smart agriculture and sustainable environmental management. Improved access to water for productive and domestic use. Increased crop diversification through legume production. Increased use of compost and other organic manures. Improved health and nutrition of learners