Annual Country Report 2022: Egypt. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2023

Annual Country Report 2022: Egypt. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2023

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2022.

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The year 2022 was marked by challenges as well as opportunities for WFP, as it moves into the last year of its current Country Strategic Plan (CSP) covering July 2018 to June 2023. WFP received notable multiyear contributions, enabling it to assist some 400,000 beneficiaries with USD 33.8 million in cash assistance for food. Focus this year was on addressing the impact of the global food crisis on food insecurity, poverty, and malnutrition, through social protection, nutrition, smallholders’ resilience building, economic empowerment, and capacity-strengthening programmes. In 2022, WFP and the Government distributed 650 mt of fortified, daily in-school snacks, helping meet the minimum nutritional needs of over 116,000 community school students. Further complementing the National School Feeding Programme, WFP provided monthly cash assistance to 167,400 students’ family members to help meet their basic food needs. WFP also supported national priorities towards digital education by extending ‘The Digital School’ initiative to 450 community schools, facilitating the adoption of innovative learning tools. In support of youth, WFP and the Ministry of Manpower improved the qualifications of 600 youth at risk of unemployment and irregular migration matching employment market needs through vocational training. Although slightly reduced relative to previous years due to limited funding, WFP sustained monthly cash assistance to 104,000 refugees to secure their basic food needs. WFP also provided cash assistance for nutrition to some 8,500 pregnant and lactating refugee women for five months. As part of the national ‘First 1,000 Days’ nutrition programme, WFP provided cash top-ups to about 30,000 vulnerable Egyptian mothers and their infants registered under the Ministry of Social Solidarity’s (MOSS) social safety net programme ‘Takaful and Karama’. In parallel, WFP contributed to the Presidential Initiative ‘100 Million Healthy Lives’ through the strengthening of national institutional capacities on health and nutrition counselling. Regarding women empowerment, WFP supported Government efforts to address gender inequality under the national ‘Waei’ initiative,6 raising the awareness of more than 100,000 rural community members on issues of stigmatization and gender. Additionally, WFP working with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) trained 6,400 women from vulnerable rural communities across seven governorates on finance and entrepreneurship, of which 700 women received micro-loans, enabling them to start or scale up income-generating activities, helping improve their livelihoods and food security.

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