Highlights
WFP is updating its 2016-17 El Niño Response Plan to align with increased needs according to June 2016 ZimVAC assessment.
The Response has received USD 1.7 million contribution from the Government of Netherlands but still requires an additional USD 161.7 million through March.
In May, WFP provided Lean Season Assistance to 288,500 people.
Small grains project funded by the Food Security Climate Resilience Facility (FoodSECuRE) in Zimbabwe bares its first fruits showing the benefits of appropriate preparedness measures against climate disasters.
Operational Updates
Through the Lean Season Assistance programme, WFP provided food assistance and cash based transfers to 288,485 food insecure people in eight districts in May, with some delayed distributions completed in June.
WFP is revising its target figures from July onwards based on the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee’s (ZimVAC) 2016 Comprehensive Livelihoods, Food Security, and Nutrition Vulnerability Assessment, whose results are expected in June.
Timely contributions from USAID allowed WFP to initiate the 2016 cycle of the Productive Asset Creation programme in three districts in May, in which 7,318 people worked on asset projects and received food assistance for their entire households (36,590 people).
These resources will allow WFP to scale up the programme to reach 49,090 people (workers and their households) in four districts in June.In May, the prevention of stunting project provided nutritional supplements to 5,725 children aged between 6-23 months in Mutasa District. The moderate acute malnutrition treatment programme assisted 3,020 adults and children through clinics in Mutasa district, Harare, and Bulawayo Metropolitan Province.
WFP assisted 7,755 refugees with cash-based assistance through its May distribution cycle, undertaken in June due to challenges being experienced in the country. More than USD 77,000 was distributed.
Information Management Officers seconded by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) and RedR Australia will provide additional capacity to the Food Security Sector and the Logistics Cluster respectively for the next six months, as part of the El Niño humanitarian response.