Strengthening Climate Resilience and Food Security through Livelihood Enhancement and Rural Innovation in Upper Egypt The project aim to leverage on a previous successful inter-vention by WFP in 50 villages in upper Egypt. The intervention will support smallholder farmer communities in a multi-dimensional way in 60 villages in the five Governorates of upper Egypt, directly benefitting 92,000 smallholder farmers and indirectly 460.000 community members over 4 years. The project will focus on increasing water efficiency in agricul-ture, doubling the income and productivity of farmers, strengthening ecological sustainability and increasing climate resilience of ecosystems and livelihoods. The assistance in-tends to introduce gender transformative approaches that encourages women participation and empowerment while being compatible with local traditions and customs. This project is in line with the Egyptian government efforts to offer respectively short, medium and long-term solutions and mitigation actions in coherence with challenges identified by Egypt’s Sustainable Agriculture Development Strategy to-wards 2030 lead by the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture (MALR). The project also corresponds with the embassy’s development cooperation priorities in water , food security and climate change sectors.