Transforming lives of women farmers in Zambia
Meet Melody Chali, 40 year-old Zambian, a single mother and a UN Volunteer Research Assistant with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Zambia. Melody began her UN Volunteer assignment in 2019 as part of the Scaling up Climate Ambition on Land Use and Agriculture (SCALA), a programme jointly implemented by UNDP and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that responds to the urgent need to cope with climate impacts in agriculture and land-use sectors.
At the start of Melody's UN Volunteer assignment in Namwala District in Southern regions of Zambia, she supported the programme's implementation in the remote District along with a senior agriculture government official. As part of her assignment, she conducted research on different well-being indicators and prepared various project documents, including concept notes, advisories, budgets, work plans and reports.