Capacity Building on Innovative, Inclusive and Integrated Approaches to Risk Mitigation and Resilience Building in South Sudan and Uganda Over the past years, Uganda and South Sudan have experienced frequent hazards and disasters such as floods, landslides, droughts, and armed conflict among others that have resulted in deaths, damage to property and loss of livelihoods. The acceleration in the recent years have seen wider populations experience high frequency of occurrence and intensity of impacts. The impact of disasters on humans, the economy, especially agriculture, infrastructure, and ecosystems vary from one geographical region to the next and are often related to the degree of vulnerability of the different communities and societies. Reducing the impacts of hazards in Uganda and South Sudan requires developing resilient populations with reduced vulnerability to the myriad threats, and achieving this goal requires a nuanced and differentiated understanding of the situations of the variety of people at risk, the factors influencing their vulnerability and coping mechanisms. This also calls for tackling risks from an integrated perspective to ensure communities are resilient.

This initiative complements and enhances work conducted under the FAO South Sudan’s ‘Strategy to support the development and implementation of a nationwide improved flood early warning systems in South Sudan (2020-2023)’. The main objective of the strategy is to provide the basis for developing Forecast Based Financing (FbF) with regard to floods and Integrated Risk Management (IRM). FAO South Sudan has a good working relationship with the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Risk Reduction (MHADM) in South Sudan in which FAO’s work in the country builds on the priorities of the Ministry and is fully integrated into the work plan of the recently established a national multi-stakeholder DRR platform. Advocate for the integration of IRM & FbF into Early Warning Early Action & local Disaster Risk Management national frameworks thus leading to scaling up – covering more people and more areas with better and timely interventions
The Services will contribute to the following Organizational objectiveSO5: Increase the Resilience of Livelihoods to Threats and Crises 1. Conduct training on IRM & FbF/Anticipatory Action for policy makers and government technical staff (one workshop at country level and one at local level for Uganda; one workshop at country level and one at local level for South Sudan)

2. Conduct training on IRM and FbF/Anticipatory Action for CSOs on IRM (one workshop at country level and one at local level for Uganda; one workshop at country level and one at local level for South Sudan)

3. Conduct training for media on IRM (one training for Uganda and one for South Sudan)

4. Conduct follow up meetings with key stakeholders

5. Promotion of IRM and FbF/Anticipatory with visibility materials and media platforms where applicable

Physical meetings would be planned as much as possible (depending on the Covid situation) for Uganda and South Sudan as this seems to be the preferred mode by the government officials and also for the effectiveness of trainings. The actual mode of the workshop will be decided based on the Covid-19 restrictions and technical feasibility of the targeted locality.