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Objective: To contribute to improving the food security and nutrition, and strengthen the resilience of vulnerable agro/pastoral households against climate and economic shocks.
Activities implemented
• Provided unconditional cash transfers to 32 672 households, including 11 377 displaced and 21 295 host families, disbursing a total of over XOF 3.6 billion (USD 6 million).
• Provided additional unconditional cash transfers for a total of over XOF 485 million (USD 802 000) to 7 337 households (including 1 528 new households) only days after a security incident thanks to the prepositioning of cash at a financial service provider.
• Provided 1 900 households in the Sahel region with 665 tonnes of animal feed and veterinary supplies (vaccines and deworming).
• Engaged 11 509 households in cash-for-work activities disbursing over XOF 745 million (over USD 1.2 million) for the rehabilitation of agricultural infrastructure.
• Provided 2 000 mothers with XOF 80 million (USD 132 000) in unconditional cash transfers to cover the nutritional needs of their children, who also benefited from training on food hygiene and cooking with nutritious locally available ingredients.
• Carried four rapid livelihoods assessments triggering the provision of the emergency unconditional cash transfers and animal feed to displaced households.
• Distributed 7 500 small ruminants, 112 pigs and 176 poultry to 2 572 households, along with 112 tonnes feed; veterinary supplies were also provided to the technical services for the vaccination of 4 948 animals distributed against pasteurellosis and peste des petits ruminants.
• Provided 12 177 households with nearly 1 540 tonnes of animal feed (average of 126 kg per household).
• Distributed 646 tonnes of feed to set up 18 animal feed banks.
• Vaccinated and dewormed 28 500 cattle and 55 000 small ruminants.
• Provided 1 920 households with 13 788 kg of fodder seeds and 96 650 kg of fertilizers.
• Provided 4 000 households with 13 481 equipment for mowing and fodder conservation along with training.
• Provided 350 households with 1 050 fattened sheep along with training, material for the construction of sheds, feed and veterinary supplies.
• Provided 12 150 households with 69 447 kg of cowpea seeds, 13 950 kg of millet and sorghum seeds, 713 tonnes of fertilizers and 7 710 storage bags.
• Provided 8 728 households with 279 560 kg of rice seeds and 344 800 kg of fertilizers, along with 67 motorized equipment (motorpumps, seeders, etc.) for improved production.
• Provided 10 264 households with 1 560 kg of vegetable seeds along with 562 500 kg of fertilizers and 8 800 watering cans.
• Provided 3 000 households with 60 000 sweet potato cuttings.
• Restored nine vegetable production sites benefiting 450 households.
• Built four boulis (deepend ponds) to sustainably increase the productive capacities of agropastoral households.
• Trained 148 people for improved management of the agricultural sites rehabilitated under the project.
• Put in place 64 Dimitra clubs and trained 36 staff from implementing partners on the Dimitra club approach, how they work, how to organize them, etc.
• Produced training material, carried out nutrition eduction sessions and sensitized households, including through radio broadcasts in local languages, on good nutrition practices and food hygiene.