Building Resilience of Livelihoods in Karamoja, Uganda

livelihoods inKaramoja, Uganda Building resilience of FOOD SECURITY AND RESILIENCE services, isalsoimportant. Improving access to basicservices, such asmarkets and health programmes contributestotheresiliencecapacityinalldistricts. In terms of social safety nets, investing in cash transfer influence household’s resiliencecapacity. training, andboth non-productiveandagricultural assets capacity throughdiversification ofincomesources, education, the Karamoja region. Investmentsonhouseholds’adaptive asset holdingsarethemaindrivers of resilience capacity in Against thisbackdrop, households’adaptivecapacityand especially inKaabong, Amudat, Kotido andMoroto. strengthening resilienceisquitenecessary, inalldistrictsand most frequentshocksintheKaramoja regionwhere, asaresult, climatic conditions, pestdiseasesandhighfoodpricesasthe The totalityofhouseholdslivingintheregionreporteddrought, What didthestudyreveal? y y y y four mainpillars: Strategy (JRS)launchedinJanuary 2016. The JRSisbased on World Food Programme (WFP)developedaJointResilience (FAO), theUnitedNationsChildren'sFund(UNICEF)and the Food and Agriculture OrganizationoftheUnitedNations informed policiesforwithstandingshocks. For thisreason, challenge inKaramoja. Measuringresilienceprovidesmore Addressing foodinsecurityofvulnerable peopleisamajor resource-based conflictandclimatechange variability. developed regionsofthecountry, andishighlyvulnerable to The Karamoja region, in North East Uganda, is one of the least Why isactionneeded? y y y y strengthening disasterriskmanagement. vulnerable people’s basicneeds; and establishing predictablesafetynetsthataddressmost improving basicsocialservices; income andfoodsecurity; strengthening theproductivesectortoincreasehousehold

5. 4. 3. 2. 1. strengthen resilience? What shouldpolicymakers doto KEY MESSAGES community-based natural resourcemanagement. improvement ofinfrastructure. Amudat, Kotido, Moroto, Nakapiripirit andNapak)through Reduce distancetobasic services Moroto, Napak andNakapiripirit. Kaabong, andalsoaccesstocreditespeciallyin Amudat, households particularlyin Amudat, Abim, Kotido and protection programmes mainlytargetingfemale-headed Promote socialsafetynets and Kotido) andlivestock(Abim, KaabongandKotido). (Amudat), agricultural assets (Abim, Amudat, Nakapiripirit the equalaccessandcontroloflandforcropproduction Increase assets relevant forNapak, Kotido andMoroto. production; whileeducationandtraining areparticularly In Amudat andKaabongthefocusisoncroplivestock low costandquickreturnincome-generating activities. Enhance agricultural productivity Enhance environmental sustainability and tailoredprogramming tobothmale-andfemale- emphasize theneedforcontinuouspolicymonitoring The determinantsandstressorsofresiliencecapacity environmental sustainability. reducing distancetobasicservices, andenhancing agricultural productivity, assets, socialsafety, to jointlybuildresiliencebymeansofpromoting partner agenciesfromthedifferentsectorsneed Stakeholders, government, policymakers and headed householdsinKaramoja. , forwomenandmen, bysupporting

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FAO AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS JULY 2018 y ISSN 2520-6540 (online) / ISSN 2520-6532 (print) POLICY BRIEF 9 CONTACTS low RCIscoremeansthedistricthaslessresiliencecapacity. The Resilience Capacity Index is scaledbetween 0 – 100, where a higher RCI score would mean the district has higher resilience capacity while a Source: FIGURE 1. ResilienceCapacityIndex(RCI)bydistricts is available at The FAO Agricultural DevelopmentEconomicsPolicy Briefseries email: www.fao.org/resilience/background/tools/rima (RIMA II) Resilience IndexMeasurement and Analysis II (in Abim, Amudat, NakapiripiritandKotido) FAO. 2018. PROMOTE AGRICULTURALPRODUCTIVITY Uganda in Africa Uganda [email protected] (in Amudat, Kaabong, andNapak) ResilienceanalysisofKaramoja, Uganda www.fao.org/economic/esa/policy-briefs AND CROPDIVERSIFICATION LIMITED INCOMESOURCES SUPPORT ACCESSLAND TO LOW PRODUCTIVE ASSETS LOW FOR CROPPRODUCTION Main findingsofthe resilience analysisinKaramoja, Uganda Karamoja inUganda WHAT ARE THE CRITICAL POINTS? WHATCRITICAL ARE THE . Rome.

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