📋 Tender Overview
Food insecurity and malnutrition remain prevalent across Northeast Nigeria, driven by insecurity leading to displacement and lack of access to farmland. This is further compounded since 2023 by soaring inflation. The situation is affecting up to 4.8 million food insecure people in 2024. SDC’s continued funding to FAO seeks to further strengthen the resilience of crisis-affected people by sustainably improving their food production and productivity with a particular focus on women.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Nigeria
Agriculture & food security
Migration
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Household food security
Forced displacement (refugees, IDP, human trafficking)
15.09.2024 - 31.08.2027
CHF 2’500’000
The project in brief
Background In Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states (BAY), 4.8 million people are expected to face crisis or worse levels of acute food insecurity in June 2024. Since 2022, inflationary pressures have intensified, driven by soaring food prices and energy costs and the depreciation of the exchange rate. The inflation and resultant high staple food prices are compounded by low crop harvest caused by insufficient rainfall, low agriculture productivity and heightened insecurity, thereby reducing household purchasing power and access to food. In Borno State, a policy of IDP camp closures and decongestions and a simultaneous mass exit of people from areas controlled by non-state armed groups (NSAGs) has intensified pressure on IDP-hosting towns, as well as driven some IDPs to relocate to remote areas where access to farming is essential to their survival, although it remains restricted. This project, implemented in conflict-affected areas of the BAY States, seeks to respond to the abovementioned challenges and mitigate future shocks by supporting agriculture-based livelihoods assistance to enable vulnerable households (HH) to produce their own food for consumption and surplus for sale.
Objectives The project aims to strengthen food security and nutrition through resilient agri-based livelihood in conflict-affected areas in Nigeria’s Northeast.
Target groups
Most vulnerable conflict-affected HH (including IDPs, returnees and host communities), who have access to farmland but cannot afford quality farming inputs
Women with limited access to land
Medium-term outcomes Outcome 1: Improved agricultural productivity and food security in conflict-affected populations Outcome 2: Enhance nutritional outcomes and livelihood resilience
Results Expected results:
65,1000 beneficiaries to receive one or several of the following support: kits for rain-fed food and vegetables crop production, inputs for dry season food and vegetables, goat and poultry kits (for women only)
15 Farmer-Field Schools established
200 farmers trained on good fisheries and aquaculture practices
7000 children provided with Locally Produced and processed Supplementary Food (LPSF) Tom Brown to prevent malnutrition relapse
Results from previous phases:
11,755 ho
