PIN 6th QRM PPT - FSTP

Resilient Agriculture for Improved Nutrition (RAIN).

Jakub Smutny. People in Need (PIN), April 2016.

Overall Objective: Strengthened resilience, food and nutrition security of 5,580 vulnerable, hosting and returnee households (including 29,630 women, youth and children) living in the conflict-affected areas of Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal State, South Sudan. Specific Objective: Improved food production, utilisation and marketing capacity among poor livestock- and crop-producing households achieved through more effective performance by agricultural service and input providers. Budget: € 1,600,000. Period: September 2014 to November 2016. Geographical coverage: 7 Payams in Aweil West and 5 Payams in Aweil North. Implementing Agencies: People in Need (Aweil West) and CESVI (Aweil North). Main partners: SMARF, SMAFCRD and respective County departments. Coordination mechanism: State- and County-level Steering Committees. Final Beneficiaries: 5,580 households as follows: 1000 households benefiting from Farmer/Pastoralist Field Schools program, 2000 households benefiting from vaccination campaigns, 1200 households benefiting from extension services provided by CAHWs, 1400 households benefiting from improved access to agro-veterinary inputs, 300 households benefiting from fishing support, 140 households benefiting from animal traction programmes.

PIN’s FSTP project supports (among other things) growing of vegetables, as well as local pastoralists through the Pastoralist Field School approach. There are no cereals involved. PIN has started collecting the data on beneficiaries 2015 cereals yields. EU funded projects are requested to cooperate with the EU funded AFIS project which is supporting the Crop and Food Supply Assessment (CFSAM) Process. Participation in the CFSAM by IPs allows for a greater coverage and sample of the CFSAM and thereby a better result considering limited available resources in forecasting production at planting and assessing it at harvest and appraising the overall livestock situation. For many of the EU funded projects CFSAM measurements are a key element in monitoring and reporting their results, they are closely aligned. The FAO AFIS project is offering training and seeking cooperation / collaboration. The CFSAM questionnaire is quite robust but possibly does not include vegetable production. The evolution of the FSTP projects has followed a slightly different path to that of the SORUDEV projects but more and more these are being aligned / harmonised.