WFP Uganda provides life-saving and life-changing support to refugees and host communities. This support aligns to two key pillars of the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework: Emergency Response and Ongoing Needs, and Resilience and Self-Reliance. WFP strives to ensure that refugees, host communities and other crisis-affected people have access to adequate, nutritious food during times of crisis, while enabling them to gradually build resilience and transition to self-reliance.

Sectors and Areas of Specialization

• Food Security
  • Cash assistance
  • Food assistance
• Livelihoods
  • Community mobilization
  • Microfinance, microcredit and revolving loan funds
  • Self-reliance
• Nutrition
  • Infant and young child feeding
  • Malnutrition prevention and treatment
• Protection
  • Protection - general

Geographic Focus

• Uganda
  • Northern

Expected Results

• Food-insecure refugees and asylum seekers receive in-kind or cash-based assistance and nutrition-sensitive SBCC, and are linked, along with host communities, to complementary interventions to meet their food and nutrition needs.
• Nutritionally vulnerable children under five, pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls, from refugee and host communities receive nutrient-rich foods and SBCC to prevent and manage malnutrition.
• Government institutions and other stakeholders, at all levels, gain enhanced capacity to plan, target, and provide prioritized assistance to refugees, improving resource management to ensure assistance reaches the most at-risk households.
• Refugees and host communities benefit from SBCC, productive assets, and capacity strengthening to build diversified livelihoods and improve food security and nutrition, through a coordinated, multi-sectoral system that aligns interventions to advance self-reliance programmes and measurements.
• Social empowerment and mindset change.
• Increased production and income through climate-smart agriculture practices and demand-driven livelihoods promotion and diversification.
• Digitization of Village Savings & Loans Associations (VSLAs) and linkages to formal financial service providers.

Selection Criteria

• Accountability to communities and community relations
• Access/security considerations
• Clarity of activities and expected results
• Contribution of resource
• Cost effectiveness
• Experience working with UN
• Innovative approach
• Local experience and presence
• Project management
• Realistic timelines and plans
• Sector expertise and experience

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