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South Sudan’s rural areas have poor infrastructure, limited health and education services, weak institutions and human capacity, and a nascent private sector. Largely outside the formal economy, livelihoods are resource-based and often insufficient to enable households to sustain and recover reoccurring shocks and stresses and break out of poverty. Extended periods of intense conflict for more than 40 years have weakened social cohesion, eroded trust within and between communities, and resulted in significant levels of trauma and gender-based violence.
The Resilience through Agriculture in South Sudan (RASS) Activity has been designed to improve food security and community household recovery and resilience in 13 target counties in South Sudan, reducing their long-term reliance on humanitarian assistance.
RASS works to improve the effectiveness of local systems and strengthen the capacities of community groups to achieve gender-responsive and diversified market-sensitive production; facilitate the production of diverse, nutritious foods by strengthening productivity, reducing food loss, and improving nutrition behaviors; and expand household and community opportunities for sustainable, locally driven livelihoods. Taken together, these activities will help graduate communities from crisis, emergency, and famine to less acute phases of food insecurity, and ultimately support a transition from reliance on humanitarian assistance to development and economic growth.
RASS strengthens capacities to sustain gender-responsive, diversified, and market-sensitive agricultural production; increase the availability of, access to, and utilization of diverse, safe, and affordable diet; and expand opportunities for sustainable, locally driven livelihoods, thereby graduating communities from emergency to insecure.
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Sample Activities
Provide grants to local institutions, including producer groups, women and youth associations, and micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise to build their capacity.
Promote forage and animal feed production.
Improve linkage between farmers and input suppliers.
Promote diversified and nutrient-rich crop production.
Expand opportunities for sustainable, locally driven livelihoods.
Expand access to financial services to diversify livelihoods and protect productive assets.
Select Results
Provided 2,585 farmers with quality certified seeds in RASS’s priority counties and supplied an additional 80 seed multiplication farmers with groundnut seeds to build seed multipliers’ capacity to produce adequate seeds to supply to local farmers for planting the following season, thereby increasing food production and food security.
Reached 2,712 people, not including those reached through radio messages, through community townhalls and open forums to combat cultural narratives that perpetuate violence and commodify women, while also working to improve women’s skills in agriculture and nutrition. |
