Annual Country Report 2021: Congo. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2024

Annual Country Report 2021: Congo. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2024

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2021.

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60 p.

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In 2021, WFP entered the third year of its CSP, continuing to support the Government's efforts in assisting the most vulnerable, shock-affected groups through in-kind assistance and cash-based transfers (CBT), while providing technical assistance to the Government. Overcoming several challenges and in demanding contexts, WFP provided food and nutrition assistance to 176,435 food insecure people composed of groups affected by shocks, such as the urban population impacted by the economic consequences of COVID-19, flood-affected population, refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) and asylum seekers from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). WFP implemented measures of physical distancing and hygiene in its school feeding operations, as the schools remained open throughout the 2020/2021 school year. A total of 166,577 children in 485 schools benefited from school feeding through in-kind and CBT assistance. WFP supported 1,138 smallholder farmers by providing small equipment, seeds, and analytical and technical support to encourage market-oriented and climate-resilient livelihoods. WFP continued its capacity strengthening efforts towards national institutions. WFP and partners advocated for implementing the national law (called 05/2011) designed to improve access to social protection shemes to the indigenous populations. This initiative generated an opportunity to promote inclusion and gender equality actions in the pathway towards Zero Hunger. WFP continued to assist the thousands of people affected by the 2020 floods. Since more than 80 percent of the crops were lost to these floods, WFP has been working to improve the resilience of these people against similar climatic shocks. WFP carried out a food assistance for assets (FFA) pilot project with refugees and host communities to build their income-generating capacities and strengthen social cohesion.

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