January 15, 2007

New Project Won–Uganda: PL 480 Title II Multi-Year Assistance Program

This five-year $74,345,850 USAID PL 480 Title II Multi-Year Assistance program is ACDI/VOCA's largest award ever. It seeks to reduce food insecurity and increase nutrition status in vulnerable populations through a smallholder agriculture component and targeted food distributions. ACDI/VOCA’s implementing partners are Africare, the Lutheran World Federation, The Aids Support Organization and local NGO grantees. Farmers will be trained in improved nutrition and hygiene, farming methods, post-harvest handling, group savings mobilization and management, Farming as a Business and collective marketing. Farm-to-market constraints will be mitigated through the rehabilitation of feeder roads. Food rations will be provided to people affected by HIV/AIDS and a Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) component will promote improved child feeding and health care practices in internally displaced persons’ camps and recently resettled communities.

For more information on the the Uganda PL 480 program, click here.