Leave NO ONE behind

Advances in technology have not improved equity in access to food and many people cannot find adequate food to eat.

Unfortunately, advances in technology have not improved equity in access to food and many people cannot find adequate food to eat for example in 2023, approximately 9.2% of the population in the rural communities faced hunger.

Certain populations are even at high risk of not finding food for example a looming hunger crisis is taking hold among rural populations in Uganda due to a confluence of two concurrent events – a drastic reduction in food relief and a drastic 14% food prices inflation according to 2023 data.

Through mediation efforts of consortium partners, the rural communities are supported to  to open large blocks of land for group and individual gardens, provided with improved inputs, facilitated to access technical agricultural extension services, and provided with solar-powered watering systems to grow crops which they use to supplement the food rations from CICO - Uganda and also sell the surplus to generate highly needed financial income to meet other basic necessities of life which are no-longer provided to the refugee community.

CICO - Uganda is continuing to take food security interventions to the next level by taking to scale the pilot interventions from which lessons have been drawn on how to create partnerships between refugees and host communities, support participants through the journey of value addition, and strengthen market linkages so that they can profit from the sale of their surplus. We can forget to thank you for your special consideration in supporting our interventions become true while we still offer home to the marginalized communities.