The Shire Valley Transformation Program (SVTP) is a 14-year program (2017-2031) structured around three coordinated pillars: (i) providing reliable, professionally managed and sustainably financed irrigation service to a large number of irrigators in a phased construction of the Shire Valley Irrigation Scheme and providing multiple services, including water supply; (ii) supporting farmer organizations within a comprehensive land use plan, supporting land tenure strengthening and consolidation,  as well as natural resources management; and (iii) establishing smallholder-owned commercial farm enterprises transitioning into commercial agriculture from subsistence farming and integrating them into commercial value chains. These activities will be implemented in Chikwawa and Nsanje Districts.