End-Term Evaluation Report: Supporting the Transition from Humanitarian Crisis to Sustainable Economic Development in Warrap State, South Sudan

South Sudan has continued to face deteriorating food situation coupled with conflict and economic crisis. This has been exacerbated by volatile market conditions with run-away inflation. In 2016, inflation in South Sudan was 700 percent (This was the highest in the world at that time). For these reasons, the food gap widened at both local and national levels. Those hardest hit were the women, children, older persons and other vulnerable groups. The implications of these factors are immense in terms of immediate and long-term consequences to the livelihoods of these communities. It is in this context that food security and livelihoods project in Twic State and Agok Counties in Abyei Administrative Area of South Sudan was initiated.

The overall objective of the project was to contribute to the reduction of hunger and to building long- term resilience of current highly vulnerable people in the 16 villages in Agok (Abyei Administrative Area) and Twic state, South Sudan. The project was intended to benefit 3,660 households including those headed by older persons (aged 55 and above) and women in Twic state and Agok County.

The overall approach to the evaluation was outcomes harvesting method. Outcome Harvesting is a participatory evaluation approach that looks for evidence of outcomes, and explanations for those outcomes, in what has already happened, and works backward to determine whether and how the project contributed to change. It is an evaluation approach used by evaluators to identify, formulate, verify, analyse and interpret change in programming contexts where cause and effect relationships is not be fully understood.