Summary of WFP assistance:
In 2015, WFP plans to assist people through a Country Programme (CP), an Emergency Operation (EMOP), and a Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO).
Under the CP, WFP provides assistance to promote: (i) education through its School Meals Programme, (ii) nutrition for vulnerable groups, including malnourished children aged 6-59 months, pregnant and nursing women, and patients living with HIV and tuberculosis, and (iii) agricultural development with the purchase of locally-grown food used in school canteens.
Under the EMOP, WFP provides support to severely food insecure households, contact cases, people living in areas of widespread and intense transmission, and Ebola-driven vulnerable groups (survivors and orphans). In September, a fifth budget revision was approved to extend the EMOP 200761 from May 2014 to 30 December 2015 to provide continued assistance to communities affected by the Ebola outbreak.
WFP also manages a Special Operation (SO), which provides logistics support, supply chain, infrastructure development, emergency telecommunications, and humanitarian air services. The SO will be terminated on December 31, 2015.
Under the PPRO, nutrition and food assistance was provided to refugees from Côte d’Ivoire and to victims of flooding and inter-ethnic clashes. The PRRO ended in September 2015.