Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese are displaced by the on-going civil war. In excess of two million war-displaced Sudanese have arrived in the last 30 years and now reside within the Greater Khartoum area. It is not surprising that such an influx of people in a short period of time has created many difficulties in the Sudanese Capital.
In Greater Khartoum, four official camps and many squatter areas are home to war-displaced people whose access to basic goods and services, employment, shelter, food, water, sanitation and primary health care are in short supply. Many of the displaced camps are on marginal land, which cannot afford adequate shelter from the element or sufficient agricultural capacity to sustain a rudimentary livelihood. The level of growth of the Sudanese economy has not been able to provide for the needs of the displaced.
As a consequence of these mitigating factors the war displaced have remained marginalised from society for an extended period of time, unable to provide the minimum for a productive and dignified life.
The lack of agricultural and economic opportunity has severely impacted the household livelihood conditions of camp residents specifically their nutritional status and coping strategies in times of hardship.
The current strategy to alleviate suffering at the household level in the camps, has been to provide primary healthcare and therapeutic and supplementary feeding to the most vulnerable. The impact of these interventions on the nutritional status has reached a plateau. Furthermore the current approach to the problem has not impacted on the underlying causes of the problem, which are related to lack of employment and food in the first instant.
CARE is proposing a new approach to the problem of nutritional security for the war displaced. CARE proposes planned food for work activities for 16,000 households. While improving economic activity, this will also give the benefit of providing immediate improved food security. In the long-term, the increased activity will act as a springboard to develop more sustained economic activity and food security.
The goal of this proposal is to improve the household nutritional security of the war displaced population, residing in Greater Khartoum.
The project also aims to provide nutritional security through food for work activities. In the short-term, the project will also arrange a safety net for the most vulnerable and diversify the income base of the war displaced, through the following objectives.
