Strengthening Inclusive Partnerships for Smallholders in Rain-fed Areas (SIPRA)

SIPRA’s overall objective is that by 2026, there is improved household food and nutrition security and sustainable, resilient, and fair economic development of smallholders and SMEs in the rain-fed agriculture areas in Darfur and Kordofan. There are 4 outcome areas contributing to the overall objective: Outcome 1: No. of smallholder farmers (focus on female and youth) and agro-MSME’s in rainfed agriculture areas have an increased and sustainable income, improved nutritional status and more resilient livelihoods. Outcome 2: Agri-businesses and agro-MSMEs adopt an inclusive approach in terms of market-driven partnerships, job creation (focusing on women and youth), supply contracts and value chain development with smallholders in rainfed areas. Outcome 3: More conducive environment for PA's, agro-MSMEs and agri-businesses to benefit from economic partnerships. Outcome 4: Capacity developed and learning mechanisms established that guide field activities, facilitate evidence-based adaptive programming, and contribute to good practice and policy recommendations on building food systems resilience through development of inclusive, equitable and nutrition sensitive value chains (for improved FNS outcomes). WCDI takes the lead in Outcome 4 and part of Outcome 3. In the related activities, SIPRA will co-create, document, and share best practices and learnings to help scale the SIPRA approach, and uses a thorough learning agenda and capacity building component to do so. SIPRA will contribute to good practice and policy recommendations on value chain development ensuring resilient and fair economic development of smallholder producer associations (PAs) and agro-MSMEs. SIPRA will also contribute to the policy dialogue on building food systems resilience in protracted crisis situations for improved food and nutrition security outcomes.