Second Interim Report: SORUDEV Smallholder Food Security and Livelihoods Project 2014 - 2017

This is the second interim (annual) report that highlights the progress made in implementing the three-year SORUDEV smallholder food security and livelihood project in the former Western Bahr el Ghazal state, South Sudan. The project targets to support 3,000 smallholder farmers with different interventions to increase agricultural production and incomes.

Laid out in the standard EU format for progress reports, the report highlights the main achievements realised within the last interim period, activities implemented to realise the results, challenges encountered and the work plan for the next interim period.  Important lessons were learned in implementing community-based Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs) and animal traction component.  

Though it was still early in the project implementation stage, some results had been realised which is expected to positively impact on the livelihoods (which include; longer period that the food stocks lasted, reduction in hunger gap period, reduction on expenditure on food, reduction in the distress sale of assets to buy food) of the target beneficiaries.  

On the other hand, the project continued to be impacted by the impacts of devastating conflict on the economy and the target communities.