USAID/OFDA Horn Food Price Crisis Response for Kenya and Uganda Grant

Historically in the Horn region, all of these groups suffer the same repetitive scenario of humanitarian decline due to asset depletion resulting from the continuous man-made and climatic shocks. In general, this decline scenario includes a shock followed by households adopting negative coping mechanisms, such as selling productive assets to meet basic food needs and loss of assets to the effects of drought/flood/disease.

USAID/OFDA’s mandate is to save lives, alleviate human suffering, and reduce the social and economic impact of humanitarian emergencies worldwide. In order to achieve this goal, USAID/DCHA/OFDA’s strategy for the HFPCR is to improve local livelihoods as a means to increase household’s resilience to shocks reducing the need for future relief based activities.

A. The broad goals of this APS are to:

• Stabilize humanitarian indicators in food insecure households through both the provision of humanitarian assistance and activities designed to protect existing household assets;
• Strengthen existing developmental programming designed to rebuild livelihoods and household resiliency to shocks through the diversification and creation of household assets; and,
• Improve economic opportunities and livelihoods through improved market linkages in support of the agricultural and livestock sectors.

USAID/OFDA anticipates awarding two cooperative agreements as a result of this APS, one targeting interventions in Kenya and one targeting interventions in Uganda.