FNS-REPRO: Food and Nutrition Security Resilience Programme in the Horn of Africa

The Food and Nutrition Security Resilience Programme (FNS-REPRO) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Wageningen University & Research (WUR), is a four-year plan addressing the cause‑effect relationship between conflict and food insecurity in Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan. FNS-REPRO is the first programme in Eastern Africa specifically designed to foster peace and food security at scale.

The programme will employ a livelihood and resilience‑based approach in some of the least stable regions, where interventions are normally exclusively of a humanitarian nature. Its design will allow FAO, WUR and partners to set good examples of how to build food system resilience in protracted crises and strengthen cooperation across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus towards this end.

What is unique about FNS-REPRO?
The main premise of the programme is that agricultural livelihoods are people's best defence against hunger and malnutrition: people with resilient livelihoods are better prepared and can better cope with shocks and crises. FNS-REPRO will promote coordination with relevant stakeholders involved in targeted areas to reach collective outcomes across multisector interventions.

Adopting a unique approach to the humanitarian-development-peace nexus, the programme incorporates a robust learning agenda that will inform policy and practice for improved food system resilience and target local communities and institutions as active participants in designing and implementing interventions. This learning and knowledge agenda will be implemented under the leadership of the Wageningen University & Research (WUR), a key partner in FAO's global learning programmes, and will contribute to both policy dialogue and implementation through its links with the Global Network Against Food Crises.