Annual Country Report 2021: Mauritania. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2022

Annual Country Report 2021: Mauritania. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2022

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2021.

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In 2021, WFP assisted over 200,000 targeted vulnerable people in need with a total of 13,023 mt of food and USD 11 million of cash transfers. WFP's first priority concerned the repositioning of WFP operations in support of the rollout of a national Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) system. All WFP interventions were directed towards the establishment of Government-led safety-nets that are shock-responsive, nutrition-sensitive, and gender transformative. In 2021, WFP assisted 66,000 people and integrated them into national social protection systems. The second priority involves the rollout of a long-term integrated resilience approach, as part of WFP’s regional effort to scale up community resilience interventions across the Sahel and to tackle various underlying drivers of vulnerability. The approach combines various protective and productive interventions and is being systematically complemented by UNICEF’s WASH, education, protection, nutrition, and Communication for Development (C4D) interventions. WFP’s school feeding programme was geographically refocused to cover all resilience sites and reached around 49,000 primary schoolchildren (51% girls). Higher coverage of schools compared to 2020 contributed to increased access to food and improved enrolment rates. Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) activities were scaled up to reach 42,000 people (50 percent women, 50 percent men), an increase of 61 percent compared to 2020. They helped create sustainable assets for resilient livelihoods while providing cash entitlements to address immediate food needs. In 2021, WFP decided to scale down unconditional lean season assistance and to introduce Smallholder Agriculture Market Support (SAMS) as part of the resilience package. WFP Mauritania continued to maintain its strong emergency response capacity by addressing the food and nutrition needs of 63,000 Malian refugees living in the Mbera refugees camp, while jointly working with UNHCR and the Government of Mauritania to support the extension of the national social safety-net programme to refugees.

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