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Kampala, July 18, 2024
On 18 July 2024, the French Residence hosted a signing ceremony to officially launch the Aid Food Programme 2024.
Through this project, ACTED, in consortium with Caritas Moroto diocese, are granted 535 000 euros by the French
Embassy in Uganda, with the aim of enhancing food security and nutritional health of vulnerable households in
Nakapiripirit and Amudat districts.
H.E. Xavier Sticker,Uganda’s French Ambassador to Uganda
H.E. Xavier Sticker,Uganda’s French Ambassador to Uganda
H.E. Xavier Sticker,Uganda’s French Ambassador to Uganda
Amelia Savell-Boss, ACTED Country Director in Uganda.
H.E. Xavier Sticker,Uganda’s French Ambassador to Uganda with Amelia Savell-Boss, ACTED Country Director in Uganda.
Specifically, ACTED and Caritas Moroto diocese will contribute to improving food security through agricultural
practices for 1,500 vulnerable households. This one-year project, which will start in August, will also aim to reduce the prevalence of stunting among children under 2 years old in targeted communities within the next year through targeted Maternal Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) interventions.
Amelia Savell-Boss, ACTED Country Director in Uganda, emphasized that inclusion was at the center of the project.
In this regard, the Aid Food Programme 2024 will benefit to 1,500 households, among 66% of women, with preference given to households with pregnant and/or lactating mother and/or children under 24 months. In addition, the activities implemented by ACTED and Caritas Moroto diocese should benefit indirectly to 21,000 individuals, based on an estimated average of 700 people per target community.
The implemented activities will include : 1) Access to cash transfer and cash for work for 1,200 highly vulnerable
households ; 2) Enhancing agricultural skills for livelihood and creating vegetable gardens for 1,080 highly vulnerable households ; 3) Restoring degraded environment (reducing soil erosion, mitigating the effects of climate change,improving air and water quality ; 4) Improving the health and well-being of pregnant women and lactating mothers,caregivers and young children ; 5) Sharing knowledge about maternal and young child feeding practices ; 6) Bringing diverse nutritious foods and agricultural input to highly vulnerable households ; 7) Promoting healthy eating habits in schools and raising awareness on nutritious diets in both households and schools.
During the signatory ceremony, H.E. Xavier Sticker highlighted the long-standing and successful partnership between the French Embassy in Uganda and ACTED. Indeed, this new project is a continuation of actions carried out by ACTED in the recent past and in the same area of intervention. In 2018, France financed the REVIVE (« Regenerative Earthworks and Vegetation in Vulnerable Ecosystems ») project implemented by ACTED, with the creation, in Nakapiripirit, of the REVIVE center, an innovative structure designed to promote regenerative agriculture as well as sustainable resource management and farming among the district’s farmers. This nursery, now well-known and still in operation, was a veritable learning and demonstration center for agroecology, agroforestry and permaculture, with a reach far beyond the Nakapiripirit district. A second project, financed under the Aid Food Programme 2022 (« Strengthening the resilience and nutritional well-being of the communities of Amudat and Nakapiripirit », worth 500,00 euros) was subsequently implemented successfully by a consortium made up of ACTED and the NGO « Food for the Hungry ».