PAST PROJECT
This project improved livelihoods of 168 formerly displaced people through food production, increased incomes, and knowledge and skills training.

Teso sub-region of the North-Eastern part of Uganda is currently experiencing a high level of poverty and inequality partly attributed to food insecurity and low incomes. Effects of conflicts have also affected the Northern and North Eastern part of the country where poverty is a big challenge. In addition, majority of the people in this region are resettling from the internally displaced people's camps, having been victims of the lords resistance army (LRA) civil war and the karamojong cattle raids conflicts.

It is noted that those few who are being resettled are severely faced with food insecurity and total absence of any source of income at all. This is due to the long periods of almost no production, although this region is well known for food production.

IDRF and VAD collaborated on a project, which worked in four parishes out of the ten of kaperabyong sub-county. The 168 households that live in this county were targeted as well as those who have just resettled in their former homes. In total, over 1076 people were targeted including men, women and children. This specific area has also been recently affected by the floods where over 270 families lost their crops, therefore there was a need to support such families, to rehabilitate their farms and increase their food production and consequently their incomes.

OBJECTIVES

• Increased household food production of over 30% in one year for 168 formerly displaced families of kaperabyong sub-county
  
• Increased incomes by 35% of the formerly displaced families in one year
• Increased knowledge and skills in sustainable agriculture methods and practices (natural pest control etc)
• Improved working relationship and sharing of knowledge among farmers through group formation and exposure visits in one year.
• Increased knowledge and skills among the selected and trained 16 community agriculture creation of community based sustainable structures that will sustain the project beyond the one year funding.
  

Partner: Voluntary Action for Development (VAD)

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Uganda's leading website "New Vision".

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