Project Title: Supporting returnees and host communities to restore their livelihoods, create income, and improve and manage natural resources peacefully for short-term relief and long-term food security (Triple Nexus).
Project Acronym:
- (Peaceful Project)–“Promoting Ecosystems and Communities for Enhanced Livelihoods through Understanding and Learning”.
- Situational ContextNatural resources degradation, partly caused by poor natural resource management practices, is both a driver of and furthered by food insecurity and localized conflict especially in communities with high numbers of returnees.
- Problem to be addressed;Food insecurity, lacking income opportunities and low resilience in combination with violent conflict resolution methods (including GBV) among returnees and host communities.
- Objectives of the Project.The livelihoods and resilience of returnees and host communities in selected counties in Eastern and Central Equatoria has improved through increased food security as a result of more sustainable management and governance of natural resources, through alternative income opportunities, and through non-violent conflict resolution and GBV prevention.
- Humanitarian Component-(Food Security)Outcome 1: Through improved agricultural and Natural Resources Management-NRM practices, communities (with focus on returnees and host communities) are able to meet their immediate needs, increase food production and sustain long-term food security. For OFAO.