Food for Assets Presentation: Building Resilience Through FFA Projects

1. Food for Assets PresentationFood Assistance Sub-Cluster Meeting • What is FFA • Principles of FFA • Potential Activities • Proposal generation and approval process • Challenges

2. WFP SS PROJECT OVERVIEW • WFP SS largest project is Emergency Operation commonly called EMOP 200338 • In 2012 WFP has planned to reach 2.9 million food insecure people of which 942550 are targeted under FFA . • WFP allocated over 50, 000 Mt of food worth of USD $ 78million for FFA • Targeting • Mix of geographical, administrative, community and self targeting • Stakeholders • State line ministry • Cooperating partners ( National and international NGOs) • Community Based Organizations ( CBOs) • Beneficiaries • Location : High and medium priority areas based on ANLA, food security and nutrition surveys including IPC • Beneficiaries : • Moderately food insecure residents and returnees • Able bodied and food insecure • With productive asset ( to restore or develop )

3. Coherence with Policies/Strategy • Currently most projects relief FFR and FFE in line with EMOP relief goal. • Some FFA – opportunistic, not strategic. • Alignment with national goals: no PRSP, but some territories now starting to make plans. • Plan to shift in strategy ( to pave way to PRRO) – will include FFA under SO2 + 3 + FFW under SO1. • Growing donor interest in resilience agenda. • DFID /FAO agreement;.

4. WHAT DO WE MEAN BY FOOD FOR ASSET CREATION PROGRAMME ? • Food Assistance for Asset (FFA ) is the idea behind development programs that uses food aid resources to pay for either public works programs or income generating activities and human skill development . • Food is not only used as means of creating work but to transform the output into asset. Through food resources different assets can be created such as Human, Social, Capital and Natural assets

5. The FFA under EMOP has Two Components • The food security Part : ensuring the food availability , access and utilization • Development Part : Asset restoration , creation , human skill and social asset building

6. Rationale for FFA • Is in line with the WFP strategic direction towards moving from EMOP to PRRO and creating assets for resilience building • The assessments and studies undertaken by varies agencies indicate that there is a need to address the food needs of the moderately food insecure and able bodied population through engaging through FFA projects • The GOSS development strategic direction emphasized that food in secured and able -bodied population should be assisted through to assisted themselves through desining sustainable projects such as FFA • The conducive environment call for shifting from emergency to development • Readiness of the state government , CPs , CBOs and beneficiaries call for linking food aid to development • Donor interest to fund FFA (DFID)

7. The over all objectives of FFA • Ensuring the immediate food needs of the targeted people • Restore and maintain livelihood , and create additional community asset • Contribute to the peaceful coexistence amongst the community • Enhance human skill and knowledge

8. Principles of FFA projects • FFA should be integrated into ongoing community development and peace building initiatives of the GOSS • Build upon local labor and skills/experience • Planning is participatory and bottom - up • Implemented during lean season to restore and create communal or and individual assets • Has limited life span with clear exit strategy • Capacity building is an integral part of the FFA project • Gender focus in implementation and transfer of food

9. Programme requirements • Technical quality throughout from planning to the supervision • Post-project maintenance should be feasible with locally available resources. • The ration needs to be set in reference to local wage rates and value of food in local markets. • Complementary resource for non-food items into the FFW projects.

10. Where is FFA appropriate ? • People are faced with the combination of widespread and/or seasonal food deficits • Population are dislocated by natural and man made hazards • where there are able bodied people and potential activities mostly benefiting community • an opportunity exists for the assisted population to emerge from the crises and start restoring their live and livelihood by themselves

11. Activity selection criteria • low tech and low risk but high impact and tailored to suit the level of capacity within each community. • labor-intensive and use simple tools • Proximity: immediate localities of the people in need. • Complementarities: Projects properly sequenced with other agricultural activities • cultural and traditional norms Communal benefits: must benefit the community • Environment friendly : not affect ecology both up and downstream • Community acceptance: • Gender sensitivity:which contribute to reducing women’s regular work burden and increase access to productive assets. • Projects inconsideration of households that are labor poor through direct hand out of food. or Vulnerable Group Feeding ( VGF)

12. Potential activities Five Thematic areas : • Agriculture : • Land management and diversification • Water utilization : surface (rivers, dams), groundwater (shallow wells, boreholes) or rainwater (farm ponds, micro-dams) • Energy: for delivering water to cropland (pumping, gravity or manual) – green energy preference (solar, wind) • Water application: furrows, basins, sprinklers, drip, pitcher (porous pots) or hand-watering • Post Harvest • Livestock : • Forage, fodder and pasture management • Water harvesting and pond constr. • Household poultry and bee keeping • Support the fisher folks

13. Potential activities cont .. 3. Environment , natural resources and climate adaption • Nursery establishment and reforestation • Flood control dyke • Agro forestry 4. Community based infrastructure • Feeder roads and path ways • Water points • School and health unit cons and rehabilitation 5. Skill training in all discipline : • Vocational • Sectoral • FFS

14. Type of activities to be avoided • That disturbs the natural and social ecosystem • Traditionally undertaken by the community on their own • Where asset created benefit limited number of individuals • Posses danger to environment , staff and community • Place of worship • Difficult to monitor : Unless other wise established remote monitoring mechanism

15. Food Request and distribution Consultation & Awareness Raising Monitoring and reporting Project Identification and writing proposals Quality control and certification Field Validation and endorsement Implementation Approval and Notification FFA Program Project Cycle

16. Community Cooperating Partners COUNTY PRC at WFP SO WFP CO FFA PRC Identifies Projects Develops Proposal Ensures Complementary Resource Reviews and endorses Proposals Project approval Evaluates whether the project fits to Development plan Checks Technical Adequacy Advises CP Signal release Proposal generation and approval Process

17. Monitoring • Base line through the developed pre assessment template • Checklists to monitor Process , output and outcome regularly and periodically • Case studies and lesson learn

18. Challenges/Gaps • 6 month timeframe: limits partnership, participation, follow-up. • Scattered approach, partly due to equity targeting • Governments fragmented, lack strategies + capacity. • NGOs – poor capacity, targeting, translation of community needs • WFP staff technical capacity • Quality/sustainability – concern especially in light of fragile environment, complex conditions, risk of doing harm. • Concentration of Cooperating Partners in few states , counties ( NBGS and Warrap , Upper Nile) and thinly placed the remaining states ; • WFP staff numbers – FFA is time-intensive; sometimes seen as low priority as does not generate high mt distribution.

19. What is expected from CPs and WFP SO ? • Active participation in all project cycle • Assist community exercise participatory Planning methodology to generate community driven proposal • Organize training on technical and project management • Conduct supportive monitoring • Collect and record information and success stories • Ensure transparency and accountability of beneficiary targeting and resource • Adhere to the FLA • Avail timely the necessary complementary input

20. Take home message • During planning take into consideration the seasonality and livelihood asset and build up on the existing livelihood strategies • Ensure quality targeting • Ensure all records and documents are kept properly • Start small and grow gradually • Ensure timely start and phase out • Work toward quality of work output • Ensure gender issues are addressed • Hand over the asset created to the community right after official completion

21. Thank you.