Strengthening resilience of vulnerable communities, households and food and nutrition insecure people

Funded by the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, this programme targets vulnerable populations in the regions of Gao, Kidal, Mopti and Timbuktu. Within the Global Alliance for Resilience (AGIR) – Sahel and West Africa, this programme contributes to translating into practice the priorities identified by the Malian government in its “National Resilience Priorities” document (NRP-AGIR). It seeks to develop a multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral partnership around a long-term vision involving all key stakeholders working towards strengthening resilience of vulnerable populations in northern Mali. It thus aims to make this partnership functional and effective by setting up a mechanism for co-ordinating, monitoring and evaluating the progress made in implementing the NRP-AGIR. This mechanism will be based on existing and new institutional mechanisms developed by the ministries in charge of food security, social protection and nutrition. The programme is being implemented by the NGOs SOS Sahel, Human & Inclusion and Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, in partnership with national, regional and local authorities of the northern regions of Mali.

Global objective

Strengthening resilience to food and nutrition insecurity of vulnerable populations in Mali

Specific objectives

Strengthening the capacities of the most vulnerable communities, households and people to anticipate, absorb and recover from shocks affecting their food and nutrition security through a co-ordinated implementation of local actions
Strengthening the leadership role of authorities at all levels in the co-ordination, monitoring and evaluation of all interventions aimed at increasing resilience of vulnerable populations to food and nutrition insecurity

Duration

3 years : 23/01/2017 - 31/03/2020

Localisation

The project is implemented in the regions of Gao, Kidal, Mopti and Timbuktu in Mali.

Beneficiaries

320 000 people receiving nutrition assistance
85 500 people having improved access to basic services
58 900 people reached by information campaigns on resilience-building practices and basic rights
40 000 people assisted to develop economic income-generating activities
12 500 people receiving food-security related assistance

Budget

25 000 000 EUR

Funding

European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa

Implementation

Humanity & Inclusion
SOS SAHEL
Oxford Committee for Famine Relief

Partners

Political and strategic support will be provided through the Post-Conflict Rehabilitation Commission (PRCZ). This body brings together the Government of Mali, representatives of local authorities, technical and financial partners’ sector-specific technical group coordinators and leaders of humanitarian clusters.

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Country

Mali

Topics

Agriculture & value chains
Climate, climate change & adaptation
Employment & revenues
Food security & zero hunger
Governance & capacity-building
Health
Local actors & livelihoods
Natural resource management
Nutrition
Poverty
Social affairs & social protection
Water & sanitation
Youth

Targets

Children aged under 5 years
Institutions
Pastoralists & Agro-pastoralists
Poor households
Poor workers in the informal economy
Pregnant and lactating women
Vulnerable small-scale farmers
Youth

Agir Pillars

Pillar 1: Improve social protection for the most vulnerable communities and households in order to secure their livelihoods
Pillar 2: Strengthen the nutrition of vulnerable households
Pillar 3: Sustainably improve agricultural and food productivity and the incomes of the most vulnerable households and improve access to food
Pillar 4: Strengthen governance in food and nutrition security

Scales

Local