Annual Country Report 2021: Sierra Leone. Country Strategic Plan 2020-2024

Annual Country Report 2021: Sierra Leone. Country Strategic Plan 2020-2024

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2021.

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60 p.

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In 2021, WFP increased its unconditional food assistance compared to the previous year, to households most affected by food insecurity including people living with HIV and over 7,000 people left homeless by the Susan’s Bay fire in Freetown. WFP also enhanced its capacity strengthening initiatives while implementing integrated nutrition-sensitive programmes in the most food insecure chiefdoms. With only 58 percent of funding resourced against the needs-base plan, WFP still managed to achieve objectives across a range of activities. WFP prioritized cash-based transfers where food markets were functional and targeted the most vulnerable groups, emphasizing the inclusion of households headed by women, persons with disabilities, and older persons. WFP began sensitizing up to 17 school communities towards the home-grown model, ahead of launching a pilot in 2022. , WFP established social and behaviour change communications (SBCC) as an approach to address stunting and malnutrition, assisting mother-support groups to inform parents about optimal infant feeding practices. WFP’s resilience strengthening programme. doubled its reach to 6,526 farmers to build or rehabilitate 850 hectares of irrigation systems in inland valley swamps. The farmers cultivated the swamps with rice, legumes, and vegetables using climate-smart methods, thereby protecting the environment and biodiversity. To address challenges in food systems, WFP trained farmers in the management of loans schemes, post-harvest management, and by providing rice millers. Additionally, mother support groups were also trained in poultry farming and nutrition-sensitive agriculture, promoting diversified diets as part of this approach.

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