Envelope 1: Support for people affected by food insecurity in IPC 4 and 5 areas - Duk, Twic East, Bor South, Jonglei State and Rumbek North, Lakes State, South Sudan. The Republic of South Sudan – the world’s youngest nation – has been plagued by multiple hazards including conflict, catastrophic flooding for the second year in the row, inter-communal violence, displacement, economic crisis, pest and diseases, invasion of desert locust, and the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to last Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) release, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) has launched its 2021 Emergency Livelihood Response Programme (ELRP) Scale up Plan to save lives, enhance household livelihood, own food production and reduce their annual food gap, decrease the degree and frequency with which households depend on external food assistance, and strengthen their capacity to absorb shocks. 
Given the gravity of the food security situation in the months to come and recent needs assessments, FAO and implementing partners, namely AVSI Foundation, the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), and Green Belt Initiative (BGI) will provide livelihood response during dry season targeting people affected by food insecurity in IPC 4 locations. The project will be implemented by LWF in Twic East (Kongor, Lith, Pakeer, Nyuak, Ajoung payams and river islands), GBI in Duk (payams:Ageer, Dongchak,Padiet, Pagak, Panyang and Payue), FAO field office in Bor South (payams: Bor, Kolyang, Makuach, Anyidi, Baidit and Jalle) in Jonglei State, and AVSI in Rumbek North (payams Maper, Madol, Malueeth, Aloor, Wunrieng and Meen), Lakes State. A total of  204 192 people will be supported with combination of vegetable and fishing kits, agriculture hand tools and trainings. The response will address the needs of food insecure population from the targeted locations, specifically focusing on providing assorted fast-maturing vegetable kits (5-7 types of vegetable seeds), fishing kit (hooks, monofilament, twines), agriculture hand tools (maloda, rake or hoe), and additional watering cans and water pumps. This intervention will allow affected population access the food immediately through fishing activities and within short period of 7 weeks for vegetable production.
To complement livelihood kits distributions, the project will train beneficiaries in improved agronomic and fishing practices, including reducing postharvest losses, and cross cutting themes such as nutrition. The establishment of the vegetable gardens will help to promote best agriculture practices. The project will also establish vegetable gardens next to 1 nutrition centers and 1 school in Twic East. The trainings in best agronomic practices will be further supported by dissemination of information through the Public Service Announcements (PSA) in local language in the local radio station funded by complementary FAO's ELRP projects. 
The intervention will address gender equalities with regards to women’s access to productive assets by providing them with tailored portable livelihood packages of vegetables increasing their knowledge on agriculture production and finally addressing women’s work burden in agriculture by providing time-saving equipment’s such to reduce the drudgery of water collection and providing irrigation for household vegetable gardens, and enable women to use their time more productively. Beneficiaries will include Internally Displaced Persons (IDP), host communities, returnees, and community vulnerable groups’ representatives (female headed household, households with malnourished children, single mothers widows, elders, handicapped or chronically ill, refugee, youth at risk, survivors of GBV). Overall, the project will target a total of 204 192 people, of which 181 392 people will receive vegetable kits packages (seeds and tool), 183 405 people will receive fishing kits,  3 764 people (including 400 children) will be trained in best agronomic practices, and 1 488 will receive training in fisheries.