South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project Additional Financing

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Prospective

This is an additional financing (AF) to the South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihood. The project development objective (PDO) of the parent project is to strengthen the capacity of farmers and their organizations and improve agricultural production. The parent project supported farmers in producing food for self-consumption and surplus for the market, invested in capacity building, technical assistance, skills enhancement, seed production, extension delivery, and increased access to farm tools so that farmers can expand their production capacity. The proposed interventions in the AF will scale up the existing activities of the parent project and add new activities to address the flood crisis and extra livelihood needs resulting from the influx of returnees and refugees that settle in the project locations.It will use the same components:Component 1 - Capacity Building in Good Agricultural Practices- aims to provide capacity building in good agricultural practices to selected households focusing on environmentally friendly approaches to livelihood development and ensure the protection and preservation of natural resources and the environment.Component 2- Investment Support for Improved Agricultural Production- aims to increase food security by moving farmers beyond subsistence to climate-smart agricultural value chains that increase production for household-level food security as well as producing surplus for the market. It enhances farmers’ access to climate-smart agricultural inputs and other appropriate climate-smart technology, implements, and tools to enhance agricultural production, value addition, and resilience.Component 3- Project Management and Technical Assistance- aims to provide capacity strengthening and technical support to MAFS to enhance its planning, coordination, managerial, and technical roles and functions. The AF will scale up existing project activities and add new activities to address the flood crisis and extra livelihood needs resulting from the influx of returnees and refugees that settle in the project locations. Under Component 1, the proposed AF will support good agricultural practices, agroforestry, and good natural resource management skills for farmers and herders. In addition to scaling up the capacity-building activities such as the formation and strengthening of farmer organizations (FOs), and improving farming knowledge supported under the parent project, the proposed AF will finance the following capacity-building activities: (i) build knowledge to adapt to climate change with newly introduced rice production methods and technologies; (ii) improve Community Animal Health Workers (CAHWs) skills on fodder production and preservation for better service delivery on animal health services and One Health challenges; (iii) improve knowledge and practices on fish post-harvest processing and handling using proper preservation techniques; and (iv) improve knowledge on environmental protection and alternative environmentally friendly cooking methods. Under Component 2, the proposed AF will capitalize on the capacity building in Component 1 to scale up activities under the parent project, by focusing on improved food production and livelihoods to increase access to food for food insecure households. It will support the following new investment activities: (i) adapt climate smart technology to enhance rice cultivation; (ii) reduce deforestation through the introduction of new and affordable cooking technology. (iii) support livestock livelihood and animal health; and (iii) provide post-harvest support to fish processing and handling.Under Component 3, project management activities under the parent project will continue in the proposed AF. The new activities are related to (i) the provision of additional resources under the Trust Fund to bolster the country’s national Food Security Crisis Preparedness Plan, (ii) the provision of disaster risk management equipment for early warning, (iii) dissemination of public early warning messages.

FY17 - Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry,FY17 - Industry, Trade and Services

World Bank

Project

Raw Materials, Consumer Products, Commercial, Government