Annual Country Report 2021: Armenia. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2024
2021
ELR 1580
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Title
Annual Country Report 2021: Armenia. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2024
Imprint
Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2021.
Language Note
English
Description
51 p.
ISBN/LRC Code
ELR1580
Summary
In 2021, WFP continued to implement its crisis response that began in 2020, while expanding its development portfolio and strengthening social protection. WFP is improving access to food, providing school meals, rehabilitating school kitchens and canteens while at the same time creating employment opportunities and contributing to mitigating the impacts of climate change, supporting smallholder farmers and agribusinesses to strengthen nutrition-sensitive food value chains, and through policy and technical support for national food security and nutrition systems, especially through the progressive nationalization of the school feeding programme. In addition, the promotion of social behavioural change and nutrition awareness is contributing to better eating habits and strengthening linkages between school feeding and food value chains. In the past year, however, development gains were challenged by major shocks from 2020. Consequently, in 2021, WFP further expanded its emergency operation to meet the food security needs of persons displaced and affected by conflict. WFP’s emergency response reached nearly 100,000 displaced and local populations, providing USD 1.2 million in cash and nearly 1,300 mt of food assistance. While schools remained closed and onsite feeding closed, regular school meals were temporarily replaced with cash-based assistance and alternative take-home rations to help secure the basic food needs of 53,000 school children and their families; with over 100,000 children benefiting annually from the national and WFP-provided school feeding. WFP supported over 560 local producers to improve their production, storage, processing and packaging of targeted commodities, while improving infrastructure through clean energy and strengthening linkages with markets, which contributes vitally to the increased availability and affordability of nutritious food for the greater community. Building on the nexus approach, WFP is launching a project to rehabilitate water infrastructure in ten communities in Syunik, which will see the development of agricultural producers through a market focused approach that increases clean production and demand of affordable high-quality nutritious food.
Note
Electronic ed.
Call Number
ELR 1580
Language
English
System Control No.
MON-127196
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Annual Country Report (ACR)