US Invests $75m to Improve Food and Nutrition Security in Karamoja
The United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has launched two new five-year activities, totaling $75 million USD, to improve food and nutrition security and to strengthen resilience of over 665,000 people in the Karamoja sub-region.
Karamoja is the most nutritionally vulnerable region in Uganda and the third most vulnerable to stunting in East Africa. Despite relative peace in the region after decades of conflict and instability, high levels of poverty, and food and nutrition insecurity remain a significant barrier to development.
The activities will focus on improving health and nutrition, on and off-farm livelihoods, local governance and civil society, and water, sanitation and hygiene conditions. Both activities will strategically invest in the region’s future: youth and adolescents.
Catholic Relief Services and its partners will implement the Nuyok Activity (a Nga’karimojong word meaning “it is ours”) in the Western districts of Abim, Nakapiripirit and Napak. Mercy Corps and partners will implement the Apolou Activity (meaning “growth” or “it is growing” in Nga’karimojong) in the Eastern districts of Kaabong, Kotido, Moroto and Amudat.
USAID looks forward to supporting activities that work hand-in-hand with the communities and local government to build an empowered Karamoja where all communities thrive. The activities are made possible by the support of the American people.