Annual Country Report 2021: Burundi. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2021
2021
ELR 1586
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Annual Country Report 2021: Burundi. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2021
Mention d'impression
Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2021.
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English
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86 p.
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ELR1586
Résumé
In 2021, WFP achieved substantial results, supporting the Burundi government to address food insecurity and malnutrition challenges, reaching 1.2 million food-insecure people (52 percent women , 10.5 percent persons with disabilities) .WFP provided 22,000 tons of in-kind food and over USD 6.9 million CBTs. To address malnutrition, nutrition interventions focused on prevention and treatment using Specialized Nutritious Foods (SNF), nutrition education, Social Behavior Change Communication, culinary demonstrations, and training on enhancing feeding, hygiene, health care and nutrition practices. Nutrition indicators for chronic malnutrition improved compared to 2019. Capacity strengthening provided to local smallholder farmers resulted in WFP purchasing over 5,000 mt of food, including 1,050 mt milk for the school feeding programme, injecting USD 3.3 million in the local economy. However, it is worth noting that the purchasing process recorded delays that affected the supplied programmes like the home-grown school feeding programme (HGSF) and negatively impacted education performance indicators.This resulted in food shortages in most assisted schools in April, May, and September. Although schools retained the enrolment, retention, and dropout rates above the baseline situation, they slightly degraded compared to last year. To address this challenge, WFP is planning to strengthen the capacities of the government’s decentralized structures in the food quality control and procurement process and hand them over to the Government. However, With over 600,000 schoolchildren supported in 849 schools, the HGSF programme is already recognized by the Government of Burundi as the largest and most important safety net for vulnerable people. Resilience-building activities implemented in Karusi and Gitega provided households with purchasing power through cash-based transfers, improving their food consumption and equipping them with more assets.
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Electronic ed.
Cote
ELR 1586
Langue
Anglais
System Control No.
MON-127204
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Annual Country Report (ACR)