FAO SSD Improving resilient livelihoods, food and nutrition security  2021-2024 FAO SSD Improving resilient livelihoods, food and nutrition security  2021-2024 Sida stödjer projektet "Improving resilient livelihoods through food and nutrition security of vulnerable communities, especially women-headed households in Wau and Torit States of South Sudan" under perioden 2021- 2024 med totalt 60 000 000 SEK. 

Det övergripande syftet med projektet är att bidra till att bygga upp motståndskraften hos de mest utsatta hushållen, särskilt de som leds av kvinnor, i de mest livsmedelsosäkra regionerna i Sydsudan. Projektet förväntas bidra till att omkring 48 000 människor får möjlighet att utveckla metoder för ett mångsidigt och klimatanpassat jordbruk, liksom ökad kapacitet för ett hållbart nyttjande av naturresurser och land med fokus på sårbara hushåll, kvinnor, barn, återvändare och internfördrivna flyktingar. 

Projektet avser att öka möjligheterna till en hållbar försörjning med fokus på diversifierad jordbruksproduktion, liksom att stärka livsmedels- och näringstrygghet för sårbara hushåll, så att de därmed inte behöver vidta negativa hanteringsåtgärder på grund av att de utsätts för externa risker orsakade av klimatförändringar och osäkerhet, bland annat åsamkat av konflikt. Projektet ska samtidigt bidra till att stärka lokal kapacitet att förebygga och hantera naturresursrelaterade konflikter, samt bidra till att stärka kvinnors ekonomiska egenmakt genom bland annat aktiviteter som bidrar till att stärka inkomstmöjligheter för kvinnor. 

Projektet implementeras i Wau och Torit, tidigare delstater i Västra Bahr El Ghazal och östra Ekvatoria. Wau och Torit har valts ut inom ramen för PfRR (Partnership for Recovery and Resilience), där produktionskapaciteten har påverkats drastiskt på grund av konflikter. En annan anledning till att fokusera på dessa två områden är på grund av ett stort antal återvändare i båda områdena.

Projektet har tre förväntade resultat: 
1. Stärkt livsmedelskonsumtion på hushållsnivå. 
2. Förbättrad näringsstatus och inkomst hos kvinnor och barn. 
3. Reducerad sårbarhet för konflikter relaterade till land och naturresurser.

Sektor: 31120 - Agricultural development, 43073 - Food safety and quality.
Policy markers: Gender equality (1 - Significant objective), Democracy and Human Rights (1-Significant objective), Disaster Risk Reduction (1-Significant objective), Conflict prevention, peace and security (1 - Significant objective), Employment (2 - Principal objective), Aid to environment (1 - Significant objective). Sida supports the project "Improving resilient livelihoods through food and nutrition security of vulnerable communities, especially women-headed households in Wau and Torit States of South Sudan" for the period 2021-2024 with a total of 60 000 000 SEK. 

The overall aim of the project is to contribute to building the resilience of the most vulnerable households, especially those headed by women, in the most food insecure regions of South Sudan. To achieve this, the project will support at least 8000 vulnerable households (approx. 48 000 individuals) engaged in agricultural activities in areas where there are IPC classifications of phase 3 and phase 4 - Crisis and Emergency levels of food insecurity.

The project aims to contribute to sustainable livelihood opportunities and food security, focusing on diversified agriculture and methods, as well as strengthening nutritional status and income of women and children, internally displaced people, returnees and vulnerable communities. The project is also expected to contribute to local capacity to prevent and reduce vulnerability to conflict related natural resources and communities access to land, as well as to promote women's economic empowerment through income generating activities and livelihood opportunities.

The project is implemented in Wau and Torit, former states of Western Bahr El Ghazal State and Eastern Equatoria. Wau and Torit have been selected within the framework och PfRR (Partnership for Recovery and Resilience), where the production capacities have been drastically affected due to conflict. Another reason for focusing on these two areas is because of the high numbers of returnees in both areas.

The project has three expected outcomes: 
1. Enhanced households level food consumption. 
2. Improved nutritional status and income of women and children. 
3. Vulnerability to conflict related to communal access to land and other natural resources reduced.

Sectors: 31120 - Agricultural development, 43073 - Food safety and quality.
Policy markers: Gender equality (1 - Significant objective), Democracy and Human Rights (1-Significant objective), Disaster Risk Reduction (1-Significant objective), Conflict prevention, peace and security (1 - Significant objective), Employment (2 - Principal objective), Aid to environment (1 - Significant objective). The overall objective of the intervention is to contribute to building the resilience of the most vulnerable households, especially those headed by women in the most food insecure regions of South Sudan. This will be done through activities aimed at increasing agricultural productive capacity and incomes of vulnerable households, resulting in increased food availability, improved food consumption and nutritional outcomes, and ultimately contributing to improved resilience (adaptive and absorptive capacities) and food security.

The following are the expected outputs and a short summary of the indicators:
Output 1: Access to diversified agriculture production and post-harvest handling inputs and technologies increased (number of households supported with production and post-harvest handling inputs and technologies, percent of houeholds reporting improved access to inputs and technologies, extent of sufficiency of productive/post-harvest handling inputs in meeting households needs),

Output 2: Access to information, skills and inputs for nutrition and climate sensitive agricultural production improved (Number of children and households supported to engage in nutrition sensitive school gardening, types of skills adopted and transferred to household production and food preparation),

Output 3: Womens economic empowerment promoted through nutrition-sensitive value chains and income-generating enterprises (Number of women supported to engage in value chains and income generating activities, types of value chains and income generating activities engaged in by women, average income earned by year from the value chains and income generating activities engaged in by women),

Output 4: Capacity to manage natural resource-related conflicts at community-level strengthened (Methodology for comprehensive natural resource-based conflict management capacity needs assessment developed, contextualized for different administrative levels, tested and validated, number of households mobilized to participate in community-based natural resource management, percent of community stakeholders reporting they believe the enhanced natural resource-based conflict management mechanisms will be useful in addressing the issue).