SUDAN

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Water, hygiene and sanitation

FUNDING

• Funding: CIAA (Inter-ministerial Food Aid Committee – French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs)
  UNHCR (United Nations Refugee Agency)
• Number of beneficiaries: 33, 028 families (representing 159, 633 people) – 600 pupils (educational activities ) – 200 local employees
• Partners: HAC (Humanitarian Aid Commission, Sudan) – Ministry of Agriculture(Sudan) – FAO (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization) - UNHCR (United Nations Refugee Agency - UNJLC (United Nations Joint Logistics Center) - Al Shoroog (Sudanese NGO) - Peace Committee, Bindizi (gathering of traditional local leaders) - Supporting Committee, Um Dukhun (gathering of traditional local leaders) - Department of the Ministry of Agriculture in Bindizi, Um Dukhun and Geneina

Support to local capacities of agricultural production in order to make food products available and accessible on local markets:

• Distributions of agricultural inputs during the year, according to the season and to the needs pointed out in the surveys: cereal seeds (millet and sorghum) and tools (different types of hoes) before the rainy season, vegetable seeds (onions, tomatoes, melon, cucumbers, combos, radishes...) before the winter season, irrigation tools (foot or motor pumps) handed over to groups of vulnerable farmers identified earlier by TGH teams;
• Organizing of a work of lobbying in order to encourage local institutional actors to participate in the activities (Ministry of Agriculture, and of Humanitarian Affairs);
• Participation of non-institutional local partners (traditional leaders, local committees, communities) in the implementation of activities (creation of a link with the beneficiaries, and securing the places of distribution...).

Technical agricultural training:

• Implementing training sessions for some of the beneficiary farmers;
• Training session provided during the distribution of seeds and tools in order to specify their use and the best cultivation conditions (how to use a motor pump or a foot pump, how to prepare one’s land, how to prepare compost...);
• Training sessions provided during the cultivation period: TGH teams follow the evolution of the crops and organize training sessions in the villages according to the needs detected (how to fight insects, how to improve the yield of an onion production, how to proceed to the maintenance of water pumps...). 

Surveys on agricultural production, food security and availability /accessibility of food products on local markets:

TGH carries out different surveys throughout the year in order to check the relevance of its activities and to adapt them when needed:

• Updating at the beginning of the year 2011of the list of the beneficiaries of the distributions of seeds and tools;
  Pre and post-harvest annual surveys;
• Monthly watch of the evolution of prices on local markets through surveys such as "food basket", and through prices taken down on the different markets in the areas of intervention;
• Data collection on pluviometry in the different areas of intervention.

Increase in the number of classrooms in order to make access easier for a greater number of pupils living in the areas of intervention (Bindizi and Um Dukhun):

• Construction of classrooms in order to ensure conditions adapted to the schooling of children;
• Supply of diversified equipment (tables, benches, tablets for the pupils, desk and chair for the teacher).