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Building the resilience of 1,000 vulnerable households in Northern Uganda against future shocks and reduce their dependency on emergency food-aid, whilst benefiting from improved health and nutrition as a result of equipment, seed and training provided by JAM.
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Situation
Uganda hosts over 1.4 million refugees despite high levels of poverty. Many depend on food aid (92% of Imvepi settlement). Current food aid across all three camps has been reduced and inadequate to meet nutritional needs, especially for babies and children <5 years. Services in host community areas are already stretched and are they too are extremely vulnerable and lack income to procure farming inputs and access to markets.
Solution
JAM will collaborate with nutrition and key actors (e.g. UNHCR) to identify the most vulnerable households and engage and support learning through a demonstration garden in which refugees (70%) and host communities (30%) will share learning, skills and grow foods together. The garden will promote cohesion and improve climate smart farming and crop production through improved farming skills leading to improved crop production and diversity of diets and greater resilience to shocks.