The Sustainable Agricultural Development Project (SADEP) seeks to ‘contribute to enduring peace and reduced poverty’ in South Sudan. SADEP’s development objective is to ‘enhance resilience, and food security for target communities’. The seven-year project, with a budget of US$ 40.8 million will support 18,700 households (112 000 beneficiaries). The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS) will be SADEP’s Lead Implementation Agency.
SADEP has four components:
Component1: Enhanced Climate-Adaptive Production, Productivity and Availability of Nutritious Food. It will focus on strengthening communities to prioritize and plan for their development and addressing production and productivity challenges of targeted value chains as identified by communities through climate smart agriculture and sustainable fishing practices and technologies.
Component2: Enhanced Community infrastructure and Postharvest Management and Handling Capacity. It will enhance community climate resilient infrastructure and post-harvest management capacity with a nutrition, gender, and youth lens by enhanced access to climate resilient natural resource management (NRM) enhanced infrastructure and post-harvest management practices and technologies, business management and financial literacy skills.
Component3: Institutional Strengthening and Policy Support . It will have a dual focus on institutional strengthening and policy support.
Component4: Response to Emergency and Disaster (RED). It is a mechanism for the provision of immediate assistance to enhance the resilience of smallholder farmers and fishermen.
