Save the Children’s Food Security and Livelihoods Programme in Sierra Leone works to improve the resilience and wellbeing of vulnerable households by increasing access to food, strengthening livelihoods, and building communities’ ability to cope with shocks such as climate change, economic hardship, and emergencies. The programme supports farmers, women, youth, and vulnerable families through climate-smart agriculture, savings and loans groups, small business development, and income-generating activities.
FOOD SECURITY AND LIVELIHOODS PROGRAMME
SIERRA LEONE COASTAL RESILIENCE PROJECT
The Sierra Leone Coastal Resilience Project (SLCRP) will help reduce the vulnerability of 75 coastal communities to climate change risks and impacts spanning across the five target districts (Kambia, Port Loko, Moyamba, Bonthe and Pujehun).
The project will help advance progress on Sierra Leone's national climate change priorities and commitments, aligned with the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and National Adaptation Plan. By strengthening capacity for locally-led climate change adaptation. Interventions are designed to reach 260,000 coastal people directly and indirectly benefit 1 million people.
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