FH INTERVENTION IN KARAMOJA SUB-REGION

BACKGROUND.FH, started interventions in this region in 2018,

under the project entitled; Improved food security

and livelihoods for the resilience of agriculture and

livestock communities affected by drought and

disease (people and animals) in Karita, Amudat

district, Karamoja region.

However, In the course of implementing this project,

“other” funds have been realized for a community

project and COVID-19, response interventions.

Cont’n

The major project has 2 major specific objectives,

i.e.

1. To improve household food security through

agricultural production and animal production.

2. To Improve community resilience through

diversification of livelihoods options for Income

generation.

Below is the activity pictorial implementation

SO. 1.To improve household food security through

agricultural production and animal production.

Result area 1. Increased crop production.

On farm training; on good agronomic farming practices.

On farm training – row alignment and crop spacing.

SO. 1. Result area 1. Increased crop production.

Distribution of 120 oxen toimprove crop production –increase cultivable land.

Distribution of 60 ox-ploughs

for ploughing using the oxen.

SO. 1. Result area 1. Increased crop production.

Distribution of certified, fastmaturing planting seed to projectbeneficiaries.

A group demonstration plot installedand planted with iron rich twinedbeans - to improve nutrition.

SO. 1. Result area 2. Increased animal production.

Mass vaccination of livestock onlumpy skin disease – communityawareness and mobilization.

Actual administration of lamp

vax vaccines.

SO. 1. Result area 2. Increased animal production.Project Gender & Agric. TechnicianVerifying assorted animal health drugs,before dispatch to the community drugshops.

One of the community animal healthworkers dispensing drugs at hiscommunity animal health drug shop.

S.O 2. To Improve community resilience through diversification of

livelihoods options for Income generation.

Result area 1. Increased access to financial services.

Activities.

✓Training on VSLA (Village Loan and Saving Associations) concepts.

✓Provision of complete VSLA kits.

✓Training on basic business skills – Increased involvement in small basic businesses.

✓VSLAs acting as mini financial institutions in the community. No financial institution in the community.

S.O 2 Continued.

S.O 2. Result area 2.Households engaged in alternative livelihoods.

Directly supported alternative livelihood options.

✓Poultry farming.

✓Horticulture / vegetable farming.

✓Apiary/ bee keeping.

✓Liquid soap making and sale.

✓Sale animal health drugs in the community.

Pictorial activity illustration.Chicks hatched by one poultry farming group after acquiring an hatchery on their own as a group.

Proceeds of the horticulture/

vegetable farming groups.

OTHER COMMUNITY PROJECTS.

Karamoja water project.Before intervention. A locally protected shrinking

scoop hole in the river sand that is being used by the

community as a water source.

After intervention. Construction of a safe clean water source – Borehole.

COVID 19 RESPONSE PROJECTIntervention 1: Construction of waiting shade atLokales H/C II:

This H/C is characterized by congestion andprolonged waiting hours, under trees or under sun asthe veranda shades run out. The site of pregnantmothers lying under trees as they wait and motherswith crying children is a common scenario at thisfacility during working hours. With the presence ofCOVID-19 pandemic, both health service seekersand health service providers are all at risk as socialdistancing is not observed.

SOME HEALTH CENTER ACTIVITY PHOTOS.Health center staff during a health talk with

health mothers on how to keep healthy during

pregnancy.

Health talk on nutritional requirements for

children under 5 years, with young mothers

under tree shades at the health facility.

COVID 19 RESPONSE CONTD .Intervention 2: Provision of safe water at Kaetuko village:

187 households; population of 877 persons.

Community shares water with both wild and domestic

animals from unprotected dam that is being fed by surface

rain run-off water. Besides the high contamination rates of

water here, this only water source has become a death trap

for the villagers from the buffalo’s herds that tend to keep at

the water source during certain times of the year.

COVID 19 RESPONSE CONTD .A community water source for one village used by both humans and

animals - to be supported with a safe clean water source.

General Challenges.1. Little or inadequate access and availability of

safe clean water sources.

2. Animal diseases are still a challenge, yet this is an agro-pastoral community that is largely dependent on livestock.

3. Crop and animal production is still low, with the current production still at a subsistence level.

4. Poor education services ( structures and technical persons)

5. Poor health services