Livelyhood Recovery and Development Project
Farm Africa has a Livelyhood Recovery and Development Project in Sudan. This project aims to assist farming families in Southern Sudan to rebuild and develop their rural livelihoods and reduce their reliance on food aid.
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FARM-Africa aims to support the recovery of farming livelihoods in Gogrial county of Northern Bahr al Ghazal State. Services are being delivered to local people through a Mobile Outreach Camp (MOC).
FARM-Africa has pioneered the use of MOCs, through which a mobile team can take the project to the communities rather than just establishing sedentary headquarters. We are training over 80 Community Animal Health Workers to treat basic diseases and provide advice on healthcare, which has the potential to benefit over 81,000 farmers.
The programme area lies in the western flood plains agro-pastoral zone where there is a stronger representation of livestock in an overall agro-pastoral farming system and the primary beneficiaries are 18,614 households (approximately 111,684 people) who directly benefit from the programme in Gogrial West County.
The main focus of the programme is a balance between service provision and sustainable livelihoods and is based on providing short term support to returnees and their host communities and technology and skills transfer through action research, participatory training and, institutional strengthening at community and local authority levels.
The programme has six main aspects: programme management and support; water resources development; participatory community development planning; animal health & livestock development; support to sustainable agriculture development; and policy advocacy & dissemination.
Partners
We work in partnership with the Ministry of Animal Resource and Fisheries (MARF) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF). We are also working with a local NGO, SUPRAID, to supply families in Gogrial West with boreholes water points, giving up to 8,000 families access to clean water for domestic and agricultural use. We are also working with Shallow Well International to train local communities to build their own water points that are easy to maintain by the communities.
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Case study
Shallow Well Technology in Sudan Traditional wells are 30ft - 40ft deep, hazardous to excavate and take an average of four to five days for three men to dig; they are shared per household and with close relatives for daily consumption and household needs.Traditional wells have proved to be expensive; preventing FARM-Africa from promoting their...
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Project update
May 2008Management and Planning: George Odhiambo, our Regional Programme Manager and Hugh Gibbon our Programme Development Manager, visited the Sudan project in early 2008 to support the team to develop the next 12 month workplan as our activities will expand to Aweil South. The government departments of relevant ministries based in Wau participated in t...
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