Procurement to restore food security and saving lives of the IDP and extremely vulnerable resident households in North Darfur, South Darfur, Central Darfur, Blue Nile, South Kordofan and West Kordofan States. The main objective of this project is to restore food and nutrition security and save lives of the displaced persons and extremely vulnerable host communities in the 2017 HNO targeted localities adopting the area based approach. In order to achieve these objectives, FAO will procure agricultural and livestock core pipeline inputs and deliver them to the SHF recipient INGOs and NNGOs that have negotiated and agreed with FAO. The types, varieties and quantities of the FSL core pipe line inputs that were identified jointly by FAO and partners includes certified crop and vegetable seeds, namely, sorghum, ground nuts, sesame and okra while the livestock inputs include veterinary vaccines, mainly Hemorrhagic Septicemia (HS), Sheep Pox, Black Quarter (BQ), Anthrax and Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR), and veterinary drug kits. The drug kits include long acting antibiotics and anthelmintics, in addition to acaricides and anti-blood parasitic agents. About 220.665 tons of crops and vegetables Quality Declared seeds will be procured and delivered to the implementing partners to assist the selected beneficiaries in their prioritized  localities in the targeted states.  On the other hand, the project will procure 1 280 000 doses of vaccines and 139 veterinary drug kits to cover around 640 000 heads of animals against epidemic and endemic diseases these vaccines and drugs procured and delivered the same 2017 SHF FSL recipient organization to conduct livestock vaccination and treatment in their targeted operational areas. This 2017 SHF core pipe line project will provide support to indirect beneficiaries estimated to be about 52, 542 households (315 252 people) in the targeted states of South  Darfur, North Darfur, Central Darfur, South Kordofan, West Kordofan and Blue Nile.The project will cover the localities of Nertiti and Golo in Central Darfur state Nyala North locality (including Ostash amp Derege camps) in South Darfur Kebkabiya andTawilla localities in North Darfur state Kadugli and Abukarshola localities in South Kordofan state Abuzabad and Babanusa localities in West Kordofan state Kurmuk and El Rosaires localities in Blue Nile State. The core-pipeline funding has a unique strategic value in allowing FAO to procure good quality certified seeds and preposition them before the start of the rainy season for the timely distribution to the needy population. Value for money will be assured by procuring bulky inputs from certified input suppliers. FAO will monitor the delivery of the inputs by the selected supplier to the FAO warehouses in the targeted states and to make sure that, the seeds have been tested and test results received before handing over the seeds SHF FSL recipient partners at the FAO state offices' warehouses. Only in case issues reported from the field against the core pipe line distributed seeds, FAO will field monitoring missions to the field at the beneficiaries level to verify the received information and address the reported issues.