Food Security & Rural Livelihoods

NPA's Food Security and Rural Livelihoods Program operates with the overall goal to ‘contribute to the right of the rural poor communities of South Sudan to have improved livelihoods’.

The situation in Southern Sudan has for years demanded the delivery of relief aid in remote and inaccessible areas. However, in an effort to contribute to improved agricultural productivity and to help increase access to food and thus reduce aid dependency among the population, the Food Security & Rural Livelihoods Program aims to create a basis for self-reliance.

The program comprises an integrated package of appropriate interventions ranging from provision of relief food to targeted communities, basic agriculture support and rural livelihood development as listed in the following areas:

• Food Relief - Comprehensive assessments are conducted to establish population numbers and degree of food insecurity suffered by a given population.
  
• Agriculture - The agriculture project works across a large number of counties with a range of interventions from provision of inputs to advanced training.
  
• Veterinary - The veternary project provides services through several counties as a community based project on a cost recovery basis managed through veterinary committees.  The objective for this component is "improved livestock production".

The targeted communities for support range from vulnerable returnees and former internally displaced persons to residents.