HAPEN aims to enhance food security, nutritional status, and improvement of self-reliance by improving household food self-sufficiency and income; increase supplies at the market level through the rehabilitation and development of production systems. This program also seeks to enhance self-reliance in food security and the nurturing of key communal resources and services. It addresses poverty and vulnerability through early recovery, rehabilitation, and development programs so that the target people become more resilient and less vulnerable. It also creates a choice of alternative livelihoods for enhanced access to adequate and sustainable income and resources to meet their basic needs in short term and coping with shocks in the longer-term. To improve emergency preparedness and response mechanisms HAPEN will undertake these interventions.