Integrated Community Agriculture and Nutrition (ICAN) - Community Connector Follow-on

USAID's Integrated Community Agriculture and Nutrition Activity (ICAN) is USAID/Uganda's flagship resilience project, awarded in July 2018. The Activity goal is to enhance the resilience of vulnerable households in the eight districts.

Over five years, ICAN will work with community groups to maximize economic opportunities for vulnerable households, stabilize their access to and consumption of diverse and nutritious diets, and increase social capital by reinforcing relationships among formal governance systems and communities.

Through collaboration with the private sector, and promoting a community land management approach, ICAN is laying the foundation for self-reliance in Uganda.

Throughout implementation, ICAN will pay particular attention to gender, social inclusion, and youth/adolescents, and will incorporate a strong social and behavior change (SBC) component.

ICAN will increase economic opportunities for 116,000 poor households by improving agriculture and non-agriculture-based livelihoods, and by strengthening their connections to markets and financial services.

ICAN will layer interventions and partner with RHITES SW, RHITES E and other health activities to addressing health and nutrition challenges.

In building household resilience, through community platforms and models, ICAN will mobilize women and adolescents and deliver community services in order to contribute to improved maternal child health, Family planning, WASH and nutrition outcomes.