International Development Grant
Food-for-Work to Build Community Assets in South Sudan
Project Number: CA-3-D002970001
Status: Closed
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $20,000,000.00
Start Date: March 18, 2016
End Date: December 31, 2018
Duration: 2.8 years
Project Description
This project aims to increase food security for 275 000 vulnerable women and men in South Sudan. The project supports the provision of food to women and men in exchange for their work on community assets. These community assets include such things as the restoration of farmland for agricultural production as well as the construction of access roads small-scale irrigation ponds or hand-dug wells. By distributing food in exchange for labour the project seeks to address immediate hunger needs while in the longer term building community assets which are expected to improve agricultural production and stimulate economic growth. The project is designed to serve as a safety net for vulnerable South Sudanese communities in food insecure areas by providing a transition between emergency relief and long-term development.
Expected Results
The expected intermediate outcome for this project is: increased food security for chronically food insecure women men girls and boys in targeted geographic areas in South Sudan.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of the end of the project (December 2018) include: (1) overall improved resilience to food and economic shocks in targeted communities in Northern Bahr el Ghazal and Warrap regions; (2) provision of food or cash in exchange for work on community assets to 586 650 people ; (3) a decrease in household expenditure on food from 73.8% to 34% for women headed households and from 76.3% to 39% for men headed households; (4) access to agricultural technologies tools land seeds or services for 105 241 farmers (of which 56 830 were women and 48 411 were men); and (5) creation of community crop and vegetable farms shallow wells dykes seedlings and land rehabilitation due to the work of community members. Project activities contributed to increasing food security for 586 650 chronically food-insecure people in South Sudan.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
WFP - World Food Programme
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
WGM Africa
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Department-Initiated