Annual Country Report 2022: Uganda. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2025

Annual Country Report 2022: Uganda. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2025

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2022.

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WFP’s activities included food and nutrition assistance for refugees, nutrition intervention to address the effects and root causes of food insecurity and malnutrition, and support to food insecure people with income support and skills training in exchange for building assets to enhance their resilience and adaptive capacities to climatic shocks. Further, WFP strengthened the capacities of national and subnational institutions, including social protection systems to manage food security programs, disaster preparedness and response. WFP worked with the Government and partners to reach 1.85 million people with food and nutrition support through general food assistance, treatment, and prevention of malnutrition and resilience-building activities. WFP provided food assistance to 1.36 million refugees, scaled up cash-based transfers and provided financial literacy training to 116,390 refugees across the 13 settlements. WFP digitised delivery mechanisms with agency banking in eight settlements. WFP provided life-saving assistance to 217,747 crisis-affected beneficiaries. WFP also reached 22,532 children under 5 years and 10,313 pregnant and lactating women with specialized nutritious foods for the treatment of malnutrition. WFP reached over 32,000 SHFS with interventions that contributed to improved incomes. This was achieved by facilitating SHF access to markets through the supported farmer organizations and farmer groups in 10 districts. Cumulatively, 898 metric tonnes (mt) of food commodities, worth USD 408,134 was sold to off-takers, including processors, millers, traders, schools, and hospitals. Further, WFP purchased 417 mt of cereals worth USD 314,000 from SHF to support the local school feeding programme in Karamoja under the Karamoja Feeds Karamoja Phase II Project. Through this, WFP reached 205,903 learners (47 percent females, 53 percent male) from 315 primary and secondary schools with nutritious school meals. Through the Child Sensitive Social Protection Programme, WFP supported the Government in developing a national social protection strategy to guide the implementation of the 2019 social protection sector review recommendations as well as the scaling up of the design and implementation of the cash+ interventions.

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