Emergency food security and livelihood support to IDPs, returnees and most vulnerable host community households in crisis affected county of Aweil West, Former NBeG State of South Sudan This emergency food security and livelihood project is a dual sub-sector (vegetable gardening and fisheries) response which will run for 6 months from September 2018– February 2019. Main goal of the project is to provide immediate availability/access to food by supporting the livelihoods of food and nutrition insecure households of the disadvantaged and vulnerable vegetable and fisheries dependent communities in multiple payams of Aweil West County of former Northern Bahr el Ghazal state in South Sudan. The project directly targets 6,167 vulnerable households of primarily IDPs (10%), returnees (20%) and host community (70%). The beneficiaries will be targeted basing on vulnerability matrix and context. 
The main objectives of the intervention are to: 
1. Alleviate the immediate short-term food insecurity outcomes of the target households.
2. To contribute to restoring livelihoods of at-risk food insecure populations to sustainably produce and access nutritious food.
This project will focus mainly on the following key activities: 1) provision of production inputs (vegetable seeds) 2) provision of basic agronomic training and extension support, through community-based extension workers 3) SPEDP will also do MampE, reporting and coordination with relevant stakeholders to effect complementary, maximize synergies and contribute to project sustainability. SPEDP will also use a community based participatory approach where beneficiary identification and registration process will involve community members.
Project management committees will be established and will take an active role in the beneficiary selection, monitoring implementation and also handling complaints and feedback mechanisms and monitoring of the project, this CFM will be set in place where beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries will be able to able to air out their concerns about the project. Stakeholders will be invited during the launch and all project details will be shared to foster accountability to the affected populations.
SPEDP will group beneficiaries into 30 members per group and from the group identify a Lead Farmer who will receive training from SPEDP extension workers. These Lead Farmers will in turn train fellow group members on basic agronomics with the support of extension workers from SPEDP. SPEDP will also train 20% of the beneficiaries alongside Lead farmers
SPEDPs added value is that the organization has an already established presence in Aweil West since 2013 to date has implemented a number of projects since them in different thematic areas. SPEDP in 2017 implemented FSL SA2 project in Aweil West that reached 4 payams and so is familiar with the local settings. At the moment, SPEDP with its traditional donor Christian Aid is implementing food security and livelihood, WASH, Education and Health projects in both Aweil West and North and therefore this proposed project will greatly complement and further reach out to many other unserved beneficiaries with other projects. SPEDP further has a nutrition project pending launch to be implemented in this same county. This nutrition project will complement this FSL project as beneficiaries will be trained on nutritious food preparation and preservation of vegetables which will enable beneficiaries take advisable calories and nutritious food.  SPEDP has the logistical means on ground but there is a need to add on one motorbike to support the ones already on ground for effective implementation of this proposed project.