Duration: October 2024- December 2025
Award Amount: 58,000 Euros
Coverage: Palabek refugee settlement (zone 4, 5B, 7, 8) and Palabek Ogili, Palabek Kal, Palabek Gem, Padibe west, Aceba and Lokung East subcounties in the Host communities, and in Kitgum district Akwang, Kitgum Matidi town council, Kitgum matidi subcounty, Namukora main, Namukora town council and Namukora North administrative units.
Targets: 65,000 individuals
About CASCADE
CASCADE is a multi-country program implemented by CARE international and GAIN as the lead agencies in Benin, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. CASCADE plans to improve food security and reduce malnutrition of at least five million women of reproductive age and children under five years of age. The project will increase access to and consumption of healthy diets and increase households’ resilience to economic- and climate change-related shocks across the six countries.
To achieve goals, CASCADE works across five domains of change:
1) Strengthened policy implementation;
2) Supportive private service providers;
3) Strengthened community structures;
4) Women’s empowerment / Equality for women and girls; and
5) Coordination among food system actors and processes.
In Uganda, CARE leads the implementation of CASCADE at the national, district and community level through a consortium with GAIN, Food Rights Alliance, Kyambogo University, Africa Innovations Institute, Farm Africa and 20 Women Led Organizations.
Our Role in CASCADE program
CoWF will work through 50 community resource persons (CRPs), Schools, the traditional institution, Media and public health providers, other public service providers to deliver training and messages that aim to contribute to increasing access to and consumption of healthy diets and increase households’ resilience to economic- and climate change-related shocks
In schools, CoWF will roll out FFBS aimed at setting up demonstration gardens from which the school-going pupils and their families, and the school staff and leadership will learn how to produce nutritious fast-growing nutritious food and transfer the food production technologies to their own homes. They will be provided with training, demonstration materials, farm inputs for the demonstration gardens. Regarding food use, CoWF will run cooking demonstrations to educate the targeted population on how to combine locally available food to become a nutritious meal for the different age populations and how to cook food without killing the nutrient contents.
With the Cultural and religious institutions, CoWF will identify and work through role model men who demonstrate maturity in terms of sustainable Food production, food use, and gender justice to transform norms and practices for improved nutrition of households & particularly children U5. and ultimately increase the resilience capacities of the beneficiaries.
With he Media and public health providers, CoWF work collaboratively with and improve their capacities to undertake campaigns on gender and social issues that impact U5 children and women nutrition
CoWF will work with Other public service providers to amplify the Community Score Card methodology which aims to provide feedback on the quality of Nutrition services being delivered to the population by duty bearers.