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JAM will provide training and capacity building to 700 refugee and 300 host community households in Northern Uganda to reduce reliance on food-aid and improve resilience to climate shocks offering sustainable livelihoods to improve nutrition and health.
Categories
Beneficiaries
Situation
95% of Uganda’s refugee settlement population engage in crop production for personal consumption despite low productivity and post-harvest losses. Many depend on food aid (eg. 92% of Imvepi settlement). Food rations were reduced in 2019 by 30% wholly inadequate to meet nutritional needs of babies and children <5 years. Movement restrictions are enforced in settlements to avoid the spreading of the COVID19 virus, causing widespread food crises.
Solution
JAM will collaborate with nutrition and key actors (eg. IRC) to identify vulnerable beneficiaries. For 6 months, JAM will engage communities and support learning through a demonstration garden to share learning, skills and grow foods. The garden will promote key messages, raise awareness of climate change and include and empower all vulnerable groups. On completion, JAM will hand over the demonstration garden to community leaders and local district departments to champion the initiatives.
