Nutrition-sensitive voucher schemes in South Sudan
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Over 70 percent of the population in rural and peri-urban areas in South Sudan rely on agriculture for their livelihoods. With the outbreak of conflict at the end of 2013, the country saw large-scale displacement, loss of livelihoods and an economic crisis that resulted in widespread food insecurity and malnutrition. This has been further exacerbated by severe drought, low coverage of essential services, livestock diseases and inadequate hygiene and poor infant and young child feeding practices. The upsurge in violence since July 2016 further devastated crop production, including in previously stable areas.
Against this background, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) promoted a nutrition-sensitive approach to respond to the food security and nutrition crisis. The aim of the approach was twofold; firstly, to increase production and consumption along the food value chain, and secondly to facilitate access to nutritious food and market commodities to vulnerable groups. This promising practice specifically explores the use of nutrition-sensitive vouchers as response modalities in two projects funded by the World Bank and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). Further bolstering the nutrition-sensitive voucher scheme was the Republic of Norway’s contribution to FAO’s Emergency Livelihood Response Programme (ELRP).