Annual Country Report 2021: Turkey. Country Strategic Plan 2020-2021

Annual Country Report 2021: Turkey. Country Strategic Plan 2020-2021

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2021.

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In 2021, poverty rates have risen sharply. Despite the challenging context, thanks to donor and partners support, WFP successfully assisted over 58,000 people, 50 percent of whom were women. WFP continued to leverage its solid collaboration with the Government of Turkey, strengthen existing partnerships with local stakeholders and expand its network with the private sector to provide refugees and host communities with decent work opportunities and assist in-camp refugees with cash-based transfers. WFP has not only supported the emergency response, but also contributed to resilience-building. Furthermore, WFP's e-voucher assistance continued to be implemented in six camps across Turkey’s southeast, supporting a gradually decreasing number of refugees to meet their food and non-food needs. Under its camps programme, WFP and the Turkish Red Crescent (TRC) assisted around 52,000 refugees with monthly assistance of 120 Turkish Lira (TRY) (USD 9.5) per person. Contributing towards WFP’s global goal to achieve zero hunger, WFP has also launched Network Fresh (2), a project that seeks to reduce food waste by collecting surplus meals from participating businesses and delivering them to vulnerable households through WFP’s partner, Sisli Municipality in Istanbul. This project achieved its targets only five months after its onset. This, in turn, brought plans to expand the collaboration with other municipalities in 2022. In addition, WFP piloted an Urban Agriculture project in Istanbul’s Buyukcekmece District to train female participants on agricultural skills. This project aimed to counter the cultural norms and traditions that limit women access to job opportunities and enhance their engagement in WFP’s activities.

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