Annual Country Report 2021: Angola. Country Strategic Plan 2020-2022

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2021.

English

42 p.

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In 2021, WFP continued to provide technical assistance and services to the Government, supporting national partners in their efforts to achieve zero hunger. WFP ensured regular food distributions for refugees from DRC residing in the north of Angola, supporting 7,087 people. In December, WFP started emergency nutrition interventions in the drought-affected south, providing treatment for approximately 4,900 children aged 24 - 59 months. WFP worked to enable relevant Ministries and provincial authorities to implement nutrition programmes, including to address micronutrient deficiencies and treat and prevent acute malnutrition; and provided technical assistance on school feeding;. Doing so, WFP and partners successfully treated more than 15,000 children aged 6-59 months, while some 845,000 children were screened in five targeted municipalities of Luanda. Screening/treatment was accompanied by counselling sessions to promote malnutrition prevention. WFP provided technical guidance on vulnerability analysis and emergency preparedness, and continued to work with the World Bank and the national counterparts, in line with a 2021 Technical Assistance Agreement, while also discussing potential new areas of support with the International Financial Institutions. Given the severe drought in the south, WFP scaled up its presence in the region to support preparedness and the nutrition response. The drought, coupled with rising food prices, locust invasions in some areas, and the social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, imposed a heavy burden on many Angolan households. To provide timely and comprehensive information and ensure an evidence-based response to the drought, WFP participated in food and nutrition security assessments, while aligning its technical assistance activities with short-term needs on the ground.

Electronic ed.

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