Annual Country Report 2021: Guinea-Bissau. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2024
2021
ELR 1710
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Title
Annual Country Report 2021: Guinea-Bissau. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2024
Imprint
Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2021.
Language Note
English
Description
64 p.
ISBN/LRC Code
ELR1710
Summary
Through the implementation of the five strategic outcomes set by its CSP, WFP reached over 223,800 vulnerable girls, boys, women, and men in 2021, exceeding planned beneficiaries by 5 percent. Working with the National Civil Protection Service, WFP supported through cash-based transfers (CBT) over 7,600 women, men, girls, and boys affected by floods and forest fires across the country, increasing the share of households with acceptable food consumption from 60 to 90 percent. To strengthen the resilience of vulnerable households, WFP and its implementing partners supported 25 communities in Gabu, Bafata, and Tombali to rehabilitate salinized rice fields, improve water access and increase horticultural productivity. On the nutrition front, WFP and its partners strengthened the capacity of over 140 health staff and community health agents, assisted more than 3,100 children aged 5-59 months through its moderated acute malnutrition (MAM) treatment, and distributed specialized nutritious food to 20,000 children aged 6-23 months at risk of stunting, reaching 10 percent more children than planned. Despite reaching 186,133 schoolchildren (3 percent more than planned) in 874 with school meals, implementation of home-grown school feeding faced several challenges in 2021. The amount of food procured and distributed in 2021 was significantly lower than planned, owing to the late arrival of funding into the year, school closures due to protracted teacher strikes, difficult procurement processes, and the decrease of WFP-assisted schools by one fourth from February 2021 due to lack of food available. Finally, WFP continued to support evidence-based decision-making and programme design. WFP jointly conducted regular food security and nutrition assessments with national partners, providing essential data for the Cadre Harmonise analysis.
Note
Electronic ed.
Call Number
ELR 1710
Language
English
System Control No.
MON-127236
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WFP Taxonomy
Annual Country Report (ACR)