Build Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security in the Horn of Africa (BREFONS)

Key Details

Start Date: 2022
End Date: 2027
Project Location: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and South Sudan
Cross-border cluster: Cluster 1, Cluster 2, and Cluster 3
Priority Intervention Areas (PIA): PIA 1 and PIA 5
Lead Organization: IGAD
Collaborating organizations: IGAD
Financial sources: African Development Bank (AFDB)

Project Description

Program objectives: BREFONS’s principal goal is to build resilience to food and nutrition insecurity in the project intervention areas in the Horn of Africa. The program will lead to improvement in the living conditions of women, youth, and the population in general. BREFONS’s specific objective is to build resilience to food insecurity and climate change by enabling participating countries to: (i) increase agropastoral productivity and production systems in cross-border areas in the IGAD region (the regional clusters); (ii) make agropastoral value chains more competitive, thereby ultimately boosting trade and incomes; and (iii) enhance populations’ adaptive capacity so that people can better prepare for and manage climate change, climate risks, and climate variations.

BREFONS is anchored within the IGAD Drought Disaster Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI) as a strategic contribution to strengthening resilience in the region. Its implementation is coordinated across several IGAD institutions, including ICPALD, levering broad technical expertise.

Role of ICPALD

The IGAD Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development (ICPALD) provides lead in;

Operationalizing the IGAD Rangelands Management Strategic Framework to support sustainable land use.
Implementing the cross-border Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by Ministers to improve control of transboundary animal diseases (TADs) and zoonotic diseases.
Enhancing the competitiveness of livestock value chains through compliance with Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) standards.
Disseminating improved livestock, rangeland, and forage/feed technologies to increase the supply of marketable animals.

Contact

Kennedy Mayende

Coordinator, BREFONS – ICPALD

IGAD Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development

Kabete Vetlabs, Kapenguria Road, Off Waiyaki way.
Email: [email protected]

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