Highlights
In June 2016, WFP reached a total of 361,597 vulnerable people with food and cash assistance.
Additional resources of USD 3 million are urgently needed to continue providing balanced and nutritious school meals to 75,000 school children in the most vulnerable regions of Côte d’Ivoire during the coming 2016-2017 school year.
WFP Assistance
The Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation aims at providing relief and recovery assistance in western regions along the Liberian and Guinean borders as well as nutritional rehabilitation in the Savanes (north) and Zanzan (northeast) districts.
Repatriated Ivorian refugees receive a three-month return food package upon their arrival in the country at entry points. Afterward they are assisted with cash or food-for-assets interventions to improve their food access and to facilitate reintegration in their villages of origin.
Vulnerable households affected by security incidents or natural disaster (tornado, floods) are assisted through food distributions.
Nutritional rehabilitation is provided to children between 6 and 59 months with moderate acute malnutrition, as well as malnourished pregnant women and nursing mothers.
People on Anti-retroviral therapy (ART) are assisted with food-by-prescription rations and cash-based transfers to address household food needs. Social protection assistance is provided to orphans and vulnerable children.
WFP-supported activities were jointly selected by WFP and the targeted communities, with focus groups conducted with different gender specific groups (women, men and youths).
The School Meals Programme aims at increasing school attendance in rural areas, particularly among girls, and to strengthen capacities of the Directorate of School Feeding (structure of the Ministry of Education and the Professional Teaching community, in charge of implementing the school feeding programme).
The targeted priority regions are Guemon and Cavally (west); Tchologo, Poro and Bagoue (north);
Bounkani and Gontougo (northeast). These regions are identified as the most vulnerable in relation to food insecurity, enrolment rate, pass rate and chronic malnutrition.