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http://www.acted.org/fr/node/2543
ACTED ensures access to clean cater through a Food for Work Programme
In the past 5 years, local production has averaged 30% of food needs in Somalia with the recurrent drought, the recent floods and insecurity situation leading to the worst humanitarian crisis since the famine of 1991/1992. In the past two years, the populations of Middle Juba Region in South Somalia have had to cope with chronic natural disasters that have shattered their livelihoods, resulting in high food insecurity and severe acute malnutrition. ACTED, in collaboration with the French Embassy -for Somalia in Kenya- and its implementing partner SADO, has sought to address these gaps through the implementation of Food for Work schemes that aimed at providing immediate emergency assistance as well as ensuring positive longer term impact.
Food for Work beneficiaries are standing in a queue, awaiting the food package they have earned through participating in community work. This package of 340 kilogrammes of food will allow them to support their entire household for two months. Before the intervention, all 425 beneficiary households were unemployed as they all lost their job owing to flooding in 2009. Participating in the Food for Work project has enabled them to meet the food needs of their family. Beneficiaries interviewed at the end of the project indicated that Food for Work schemes were more relevant than cash interventions. Indeed, food is not available at market places or it is usually in very poor conditions, which partially contributes to food insecurity and malnutrition. Through the emergency Food for Work programme, the beneficiary populations had access to quality food that was unavailable otherwise.
Enhanced maintenance of water points
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