Integrated Education School Feeding and addressing Food Insecurity through  Livelihoods Programmes support to the conflict affected people in Nassir of Upper Nile State and Twic County of Warrap State. Education:

The Synergised Emergency School Feeding Programme and integrated WASH in Schools response will focus in Twic County as an effort to promote incentivised enrolment and attendance to learning, reduce risks of cognitive underdevelopment and malnutrition, and provide access to safe and protective learning environments while the integrated WASH in Schools will seek to promote safe, healthy and clean learning environment besides improving personal hygiene of learners. The project will targets a total of 10 schools in Twic County culminating into 4,280 total beneficiaries desegregated into 4,000 learners (2,400 B amp 1,600 G), 120 teachers (80 M, amp 40 W), 120 PTAs/SMCs (80 M, amp 40 W) and, 40 youths (24 M, amp 16 W). The response aims at providing school feeding, restoring and providing safe and protective education among boys and girls while integrating with already existing projects in intra-sectors (especially Health, Nutrition, FSL, and Protection), while the WASH aspect of the project will endeavor to improve the health of learners by ensuring rehabilitation and installation of hand-washing facilities and latrines, provision of soap and HTH, school-based cholera response teams (PTAs/SMCs, teachers and adolescents/youth) to undertake chlorination, hygiene messaging on cholera symptoms, modes of transmission and prevention, referral to cholera treatment / health centers, and equally hopes to enhance psychosocial development of learners besides improving hygiene and sanitation. The project has developed an effective procurement system besides describing how it will use its existing MampE system to monitor report, feedback, document, and share evident lessons. The project is also designed to ensure maximum impact is achieved through the proposed interventions besides ensuring accountability to the affected population.

Food Security and Livelihoods

The proposed SSHF project will reach the most vulnerable 27,000 people (Host 50%, IDPs 30% and Returnees 20%) which corresponds to 4,500 HH in Nassir County (2000HH in Mading payam and 2500HH in Kuerngke payam). We shall provide dry season fast growing vegetable kits and fishing kits for immediate benefits. Providing vegetable seeds will improve food production and provision of fishing kits will contribute to better nutrition at the HH level and in other cases improve HH income due to the sale of excess fish, this will take place between September 2019 to February 2020. This project is aimed at scaling up the ongoing intervention in the target location as well as compliment the current interventions in an effort to prevent an even more severe food shortage as well as strengthening the coping capacities of the vulnerable host community and IDPs. Nile Hope shall liaise with FAO to get in kind support for the fishing and vegetable kits.
The vegetable kits and fishing kits will be given to 4.500 HH (2,700  Female HH and 1,800 Male HH) which corresponds to 27,000 beneficiaries vulnerable Host Communities, returnees and IDPs, (9.720 girls ,6,480 women,5,940 boys amp 4.860 men)). Special focus will be given to people with disability to make sure they are not left out the modality to be used will be one vegetable and fishing kit per HH. Capacity building training will be conducted for 5 days on improved vegetable and fishing practices and continuous practical sessions in the farms to selected recipient beneficiaries at the Payam level as TOTs to the rest of the Community for sustainability purposes targeting 19% of the overall beneficiaries which equals to 1000 people 60% women and 40% men (600 in Kuerngke and 400 in Mading). The overall project objective is improved food security and livelihoods at house hold level for the vulnerable population at risk of hunger and malnutrition.