Annual Country Report 2022: Benin. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023

Annual Country Report 2022: Benin. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2022.

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In 2022, WFP continued the implementation of the Country Strategy Plan 2019-2023 (1) to support the Government of Benin for SDG 2 and 17 achievements. During this fourth year of the CSP, WFP focused on implementing the school feeding programme, capacity building and emergency response. The commitment of the Government to the integrated national school feeding programme (PNASI) is reflected in the high level of funding, with more than USD 230 million planned for the next five years. The Programme has experienced an extension from fifty-one percent coverage to seventy-five percent. Overall, in 2022, WFP addressed the food and nutrition needs of 1,214,701 beneficiaries, of which 542,385 are women or girls. The school meals programme reached 5,351 schools all over the country. As a result, 1,164,273 school children, including 541,258 girls, received a hot meal daily. School canteen management committees have been set up and received appropriate training in the new schools. Those of the old schools have received recycling. Nutritional education sessions have also been organised for cooks, as well as for schoolchildren and members of canteen management committees. Communities were encouraged to conduct school gardening and field activities to enhance their participation and contributions to the canteens.

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