Highlights
On 20 July, WFP delivered a first convoy of food supplies to displaced people in Banki (NE Nigeria) in a UN led cross-border operation from Cameroon.
In July, emergency food assistance was provided to 285,000 people in Cameroon with 4,000 mt of food and USD 600,000 in cash.
From September onwards, WFP plans to scale up support to an additional 20,000 IDPs in the Logone and Chari departments, while in Mora 8,000 additional IDPs will shift from in-kind to cash based food assistance.
Operational Updates
Far North Region (Lake Chad Crisis): The needs in the Far North region are continuously growing with new rounds of attacks. From September onwards, WFP plans to scale up support to an additional 20,000 IDPs in the Logone and Chari department, while in Mora 8,000 additional IDPs will shift from in-kind to cash based food assistance. WFP is working in close collaboration with ICRC to ensure reaching all the displaced people in need.
As the lean season peaks and food becomes scarce, WFP closely monitors food security trends and market developments to ensure adequate response. The targeting strategy has been reassessed to ensure food assistance reach those most in need. Highly vulnerable groups such as households led by women are primary recipients of assistance, comprising 70 percent of households targeted for cash activities.
Food and nutrition supplement distributions in July were slightly delayed and will continue into the month of August. With the rainy season underway, a two months food ration is being prepositioned in Logone & Chari during August distribution cycle to ensure food assistance reach the most remote communities as roads becomes impassable.
Eastern Cameroon (C.A.R refugee crisis): In eastern Cameroon, WFP and UNHCR started preparations for the Joint Assessment Mission (JAM) to gauge the food security and nutrition situation of C.A.R refugees. Recommendations from the mission will inform the future food assistance response to the refugees and potentials for greater self-reliance.
WFP in collaboration with partners has introduced a reinforced feedback and complaint mechanism to manage accountability towards the people assisted and inform programme adjustment. As of July 2016, a telephone hotline is operational in the east and the Far North region, for people to express their complaints and feedback anonymously.