Annual Country Report 2022: Mali. Country Strategic Plan 2020-2024

Annual Country Report 2022: Mali. Country Strategic Plan 2020-2024

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2022.

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In 2022, the multidimensional crisis in Mali entered its tenth year. However, the country continued to experience the effects of pre-existing shocks, including insecurity, political instability, and climate uncertainty, which increased humanitarian needs. The combined impact of the sanctions placed on the Government of Mali by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the effect of the Ukraine crisis caused regional inflation, a surge in food and fuel prices, and reduced economic prospects for 2022. The number of people needing humanitarian assistance increased from 5.9 million in 2021 to 7.5 million in 2022. Against this backdrop, WFP leveraged its expertise and large operational footprint to support the affected population, assisting 2.7 million people (including 393,876 internally displaced persons, 34,590 refugees, and 370,000 persons with disabilities) across all activities, a 67 percent increase compared to 2021. Despite good funding levels, insecurity, access restrictions, and supply-chain challenges impacted WFP operations and overall performance. Despite these challenges, WFP delivered life-saving assistance and continued to build resilient livelihoods by strengthening communities' capacities through community-based multi-sectoral and integrated packages in line with Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2). Over 1,200 community assets were created, constructed, or rehabilitated in 228 communes across eight regions. This represents 348 assets more than in 2021. WFP also strengthened the capacity of 122,037 smallholder farmers through the coordination of value chain actors, improvement of market access, including more profitable markets and post-harvest management interventions. In partnership with WFP Berlin, WFP Mali launched an Innovation Accelerator Centre, a project to provide information and accurate weather forecasts to smallholder farmers for climate-smart decision-making and agricultural advice. WFP progressed towards digitalizing all beneficiary information through registrations on the corporate beneficiary information and transfer management platform (SCOPE) to ensure better management of beneficiary identity and assistance delivery. Thanks to active engagement with WFP, the Government signed up for the global school meals coalition, which seeks to ensure that every child receives a healthy and nutritious meal in school by 2030. WFP further provided online training to third-party monitors and cooperating partners to reinforce local capacities in operating and monitoring the school feeding programme. These cost-saving measures enabled WFP to reach more children with school feeding in hard-to-reach locations and contributed to improving access to education for 155,960 children (48 percent girls) WFP supported the Government through the Africa Risk Capacity (ARC) Replica, a risk transfer mechanism. Through the 2021 purchase of the 2021/2022 agricultural season policy, WFP received an insurance payout of USD 7.1 million to allow for early response in anticipation of the 2022 lean season and helped provide emergency and resilience-building support to those affected by drought. In 2022, WFP purchased an ARC Replica policy for the 2022/23 crop season, which protected 781,666 people.

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