Sector strategies:

1. emergency response: (securing emergency food needs through food baskets distribution – cash or voucher support)

2. long-term response through:

• production support (agriculture and livestock support, provision of business materials).
• income support (skills/business training, income-generation, micro-credit)
• market support (vouchers, building/repairing market infrastructure, helping to
• create cooperatives, the sale of subsidized goods).

The objectives of these different forms of food-security support will vary according to
the context.

Sector objectives:

1. Livelihood provision (directly affecting outcomes)

• Fulfilling essential requirements (by providing in-kind assistance such as food aid or
• cash support, or reducing expenses through complimentary goods and services or
• cash/voucher aid).
• Enhancing personal safety (mitigating personal safety risks through the provision of
• aid and assistance).

2. Livelihood protection (protecting assets, preventing negative outcomes)

• Preventing migration to camps by providing livelihood support to rural populations.
• Reducing vulnerability by diversifying livelihood opportunities and increasing choice
• (cash, vouchers, production support, income generation). Protecting livestock and
• agricultural assets through the provision of services.
• Helping to recover assets (agricultural inputs, assets for small-scale business,
• financial assets – micro-credit, savings and loans, cash support).
• Protecting livestock and agricultural assets through the provision of services.
• Helping to recover assets (agricultural inputs, assets for small-scale business,
• financial assets – micro-credit).

3. Livelihood promotion (improving strategies)

• Creating new livelihoods assets (for example human assets through skills/vocational
• training).
• Improving access to markets and services (vouchers, infrastructure, producers’
• cooperatives/organizations).
• Supporting informal institutions and civil society, to improve access to services, and/
• or traditional governance, for example natural-resource management.
• Promoting access to information (on services and rights).

FSL & ERL Sector Main themes in IPV:

1. Vocational Training & Youth Empowerment.
2. Activating Value Chains
3. Agriculture and Livestock Supports
4. Infrastructure Rehabilitation
5. On farm assistance