Project

Fostering Sustainability and Resilience for Food Security in Karamoja Sub region

Lead country

Uganda

Participating countries

Uganda

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From February 28, 2018 to February 28, 2023

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 2.4 Ensure sustainable food production, maintain key ecosystems
  2. 2.4 Ensure sustainable food production, maintain key ecosystems
  3. 2.5 Maintain genetic diversity for agriculture, traditional knowledge

Project ID: 5577

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Technical team

  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Ecosystem management and restoration

Sub-area(s)

  • Agrobiodiversity
  • Ecosystem-based adaptation

Landscape(s)

  • Grasslands

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Grazing lands
  • Tropical grasslands
  • Savannas

Transformed sector(s)

  • Agriculture
  • Livestock
  • Forestry and other land use

UNDP role(s)

  • Innovative approaches
  • Institutional mechanism and system building
  • Convening / Partnerships / Knowledge Sharing

Strategy

  • Food and agricultural commodities
  • Mitigation adaptation
  • Enabling

Sub-strategy

  • Sustainable agriculture practices and use of resources (TP 2, 7, 8, 9)
  • FACS strategies for sustainable supply chain (TP 4)
  • Climate resilience for FAC system (TP 6)
  • Erosion prevention
  • Ecosystem mitigation and adaptation
  • Mainstream
  • Community engagement

Social inclusion

  • Local community/CSOs
  • Smallholder farmers

Gender equality

  • Women decision making
  • Women farmers

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender responsive

Pathway(s)

  • People pathway
  • Systems pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Improve resilience
  • Hazard control/mitigation

SDG target(s)

  • 2.4 Ensure sustainable food production, maintain key ecosystems
  • 2.4 Ensure sustainable food production, maintain key ecosystems
  • 2.5 Maintain genetic diversity for agriculture, traditional knowledge

Conventions and protocols

  • National Development Policies
  • National Action Plan
  • United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

Private sector(s)

  • Individuals/Entrepreneurs
  • Small and medium-sized enterprises

Hot topic

  • Poverty reduction
  • Food and agricultural commodities strategy
  • Nature-based solution

About this project

Description

This project seeks to respond to chronic food insecurity in the Karamoja region, which is a result of combined pressures, including environmental degradation and climate change. The vast majority of people in Karamoja are facing food shortages, either year-long or seasonal, and the region has been exposed to increasing droughts. The project will seek to achieve its objective through three outcomes. Outcome 1 focuses on strengthening the enabling policy and institutional frameworks through the creation of multi-stakeholder platforms that will enable better planning, including local landscape-based planning. Outcome 2 will channel investments into the food production systems and value chains using a Farmer Field School approach adapted to the realities of the agro-pastoral societies of Karamoja. The project will increase production through climate resilient production techniques, and also support efforts to diversify production to increase income and reduce vulnerability to food insecurity. A strong emphasis will be placed on rehabilitating ecosystem services through restoration, agro-forestry, natural regeneration and sound pasture management. The project will also target specific activities towards women and youth, who are among the most vulnerable, to ensure equality of participation and remove underlying vulnerabilities. Finally, Outcome 3 will support the development and implementation of a monitoring and assessment framework for global environmental benefits, and socio-economic benefits.

Objectives

To contribute to enhancing long-term environmental sustainability and resilience of food production systems in the Karamoja Sub-Region.

USD $3,789,425

Grant amount

USD $58,000,000

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Source(s) of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($3,789,425)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF)

Joint agencies

  • Food and Agriculture Organization

Project metrics

Outcome 1:

Supportive policies and incentives in place at district level to support improved crop and livestock production, food value-chains and INRM Operational multi-stakeholder platforms are supporting INRM at district and regional levels Adequate legal instruments enabling INRM, land use planning and enforcement in place

 Indicators:

Increase in intra and inter-seasonal livestock and crop productivity arising from SLM and INRM practices
Number of legal instruments, policies, by-laws applied in Karamoja sub-region enabling INRM, land use planning and enforcement
Number of multi-stakeholder platforms established supporting INRM per district, within which a percentage of women, men, youth, and indigenous people are represented
Number of supportive policies and incentives in place at district level to support viable SLM/INRM approaches
Number of Civil Society practising SLM / INRM issues in Karamoja through the Small Grants Program
Number of community members trained in INRM and SLM practices, 60% of which are women
Number of hectares of cropland/rangeland/forest under integrated natural resources management and SLM per districtIncrease in crop yields by farmer records;
Increase in water availability through biophysical monitoringNumber of people participating in alternative livelihoods schemes addressing SLM/INRM in the broader Karamoja landscape, 60% of which are womenIncrease in household incomes measured by household surveysNumber of people trained on INRM, among which a percentage are women
Level of resilience as measured by the SHARP, HH BAT, Vital Signs and RAPTA tools:• Increased levels of agro-ecological and social resilience by end of project
• Reduced perception of risk and vulnerability by end of project
• Reduced levels of food insecurityNumber of knowledge products produced and shared at Regional Hub platform
Number of monitoring and assessment exercises conducted during the project, within multi-stakeholder platform
Number of workshops held at regional level on monitoring resilience within multi-stakeholder platforms (created in Component 1)
Outcome 2:

Increased land area under integrated natural resources management (INRM) and SLM practices for a more productive Karamoja landscape Institutional technical capacities are strengthened to implement INRM/SLM Increase in the number of community members trained in INRM / SLM techniques Community groups are benefiting from income-generating activities (IGAs) introduced by the project Community level small grant projects in the Karamoja region that enhance ecosystem services, sustainable land management, innovate alternative livelihood options, are implemented

Outcome 3:

Framework in place for multi-scale assessment, monitoring and integration of resilience in production landscape and monitoring of GEBs Output Assessment and Monitoring of GEBs from project interventions Output Capacity in place to apply appropriate tools and practices for monitoring resilience at multiple scales Output Project is linked to Regional Hub program for knowledge generation, exchange and dissemination
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