Annual Country Report 2021: Malawi. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023

Annual Country Report 2021: Malawi. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2021.

English

72 p.

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Predictions following the 2020/2021 lean season indicated that approximately 2.6 million people would be acutely food insecure between December 2020 and March 2021. In response, WFP provided cash-based transfers to over 480,000 people affected by food insecurity in the seven most-affected districts and expanded the national social protection system where possible. Simultaneously, WFP provided cash-based transfers to households in response to the economic effects of COVID-19 in 7 bomas (district towns), reaching 11,000 households (53,000 people). Moreover, WFP and the Department of Disaster Management Affairs collaborated to facilitate the delivery of over 16,000 mt of maize to over 540,000 acutely food insecure people in districts not targeted by WFP’s cash assistance. Under the refugee response, WFP rolled out the use of e-payments for 11,000 refugee households equalling the value of all components of the food basket and started implementing livelihood support activities to enhance self-reliance for 120 refugee and 80 host community households. WFP supported 468,000 beneficiaries implementing asset creation to build resilience. Of these, only 159,000 beneficiaries received cash transfers for asset creation while 309,000 beneficiaries received technical assistance to implement income-generating activities. WFP Malawi resumed in-school feeding in October 2021 after consultations with the Government. The number of schools under homegrown school feeding sourcing food from smallholder farmers has increased by 40 percent in just two years, from 190 in December 2019 to 252 in December 2021.

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