South Sudan Emergency Food and Nutrition Security Project

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The development objective of the Emergency Food and Nutrition Project for South Sudan are: (a) to provide food and nutrition support for the protection of lives and human capital of eligible beneficiaries; and (b) to help farmers a re-engage in agricultural production in selected drought affected areas in South Sudan. The proposed EFNSP will focus on two main areas of support: (i) providing emergency support for immediate food and nutrition security requirements, and (ii) assisting farmers to re‐engage in crop and livestock production to meet their own food security requirements. The project consists of three components. The first component, support to human capital and livelihoods protection SDR 31.0 million is to increase access to food for the food insecure and most vulnerable, protect the human capital of children and prevent negative coping strategies by poor households. The drought‐conflict dynamic in South Sudan has generated two broad segments of vulnerable and food insecure populations currently in need of direct food and nutrition support. This component is organized around two sub components as described below. (i) support to unconditional food transfers SDR14.8 million and (ii) support to integrated management of malnutrition SDR16.2 million; The second component, support to re‐engagement in crop and livestock production SDR 5.5 million will help farmers affected by the food scarcity to engage in production over the next cropping season, when favorable rains return. The project will support: (i) purchase and distribution of agricultural inputs and planting materials such as seeds and tools,10 in the form of starter packs; (ii) rebuilding or distribution of assets for postharvest handling and food storage for example household granaries and food storage bins; and (iii) provision of extension services around the package of production inputs and postharvest handling technologies supported by the project. This component divided into two sub-component, (i) support to crop production SDR3.7 million and (ii) support to livestock production SDR1.8 million; The third component, support to project implementation arrangements SDR0.4 million is designed to finance administrative costs of the Project Implementation Unit (PIU), including, financial management, procurement, environment and social safeguards management, monitoring, reporting and evaluation of activities under the project.