Annual Country Report 2022: Guinea-Bissau. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2022
2022
ELR 1523
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تفاصيل
العنوان
Annual Country Report 2022: Guinea-Bissau. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2022
الناشر
Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2022.
اللغة(لغات)
English English
الوصف
67 p.
الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب
ELR1523
ملخص
In 2022, WFP's school feeding and resilience-building programmes displayed signs of long-term success amid contextual hardship, while new partnerships strengthened WFP's work in Guinea-Bissau. Through a budget revision, WFP shortened its 2019-2024 Country Strategic Plan by 18 months to align with Guinea-Bissau’s new development policy, "Hora Tchiga", and the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) (2022-2026). Successful partnerships and the support of donors are vital to the continuation of WFP’s work in Guinea-Bissau. WFP established new partnerships in Guinea-Bissau to diversify its support and strengthen its ability to carry out operations. A new agreement was reached with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to support smallholder farmers and their families affected by food insecurity. This built on the success of the 8-year funding of USD 6.7 million secured in 2021 through a debt swap agreement signed with the Government of Guinea-Bissau, Spain, and WFP. WFP implemented several programmes throughout the year that actively contributed to the ability of Guinea-Bissau’s national government to take over and lead projects in the long term. Despite funding shortfalls in 2022, WFP was able to prioritise and implement its activities, reaching over 198,000 people, a 1.6 percent increase compared to the needs-based plan. Despite the effects and extent of the international global food crisis, which led to a rise in food prices worldwide, WFP continues to work in Guinea Bissau to save and change lives. Under the Saving Lives agenda, WFP delivered specialised nutritious foods to prevent chronic malnutrition to 20,000 children aged 6-23 months, as well as delivering Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) treatments to children and nutrition sensitisation programmes supporting pregnant and lactating women and girls (PLWG). However, funding challenges in 2022 meant that WFP reached only 690 schools. Despite these funding challenges, WFP successfully implemented school feeding activities throughout the year. In 2022, WFP launched a range of pilots, offering innovative support in the country. Addressing the 31.7 percent prevalence of undernourishment requires wholesale approaches. WFP resumed programmes for beneficiaries living with HIV through food distribution after these activities were discontinued in 2018 due to a lack of funding, and from 2023 will deliver cash assistance to their households. WFP continues to develop its programming driven by the need to support vulnerable populations, having rolled out a pilot of take-home rations for people living with disabilities in 2022 for 321 beneficiaries.
ملاحظة
Electronic ed.
رقم الاستدعاء
ELR 1523
اللغة(لغات)
eng
System Control No.
MON-127111
الواصفات الثانوية
الشروط الجغرافية
WFP Taxonomy
Annual Country Report (ACR)