Highlights
WFP expected to receive commodities in May, which if not received risks as a consequence will inability to deliver school feeding and nutrition assistance.
In April, WFP assisted 152,102 people through the school feeding and nutrition initiatives.
WFP Assistance
The Country Programme (CP) 200846 started in April 2016. The five year CP (2016-2020) is aligned with the human development and agriculture pillars of Guinea Bissau’s government’s strategic and operational plan (2015-2020) and with human development and economic growth and poverty reduction pillars of the United Nations Strategic Cooperation Framework for Guinea-Bissau.
The Country programme 200846 builds on lessons learned from protracted Relief and Recovery Operation 200526 and supports the Government’s strategic plan for 2015–2020. It fosters government and community ownership of an integrated multi-sector programme to improve nutrition, food security and the government’s capacities in early warning and assessment.
The Beneficiaries include primary schoolchildren, undernourished children aged 6–59 months, people living with HIV and tuberculosis, and smallholder farmers, predominantly women. Cash-based transfers will increase as rural financial services improve.
The CP 200846 has four objectives addressed through three components:(i) reduce under nutrition among young children and provide nutritional support for malnourished people living with HIV (PLHIV) and tuberculosis (TB); (ii) improve access to education and help to increase government capacities for developing and managing a sustainable school feeding programme;
(iii) enhance government and community capacities for scaling up food security and nutrition interventions, and transform food assistance into a productive investment in communities.