Annual Country Report 2019: Afghanistan. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2022

Annual Country Report 2019: Afghanistan. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2022

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2019.

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In 2019, WFP reached over 5 million people, one million more than the previous year, with food and cash assistance across all 34 provinces of Afghanistan. WFP’s focus during the reporting period was on the large-scale drought response, which reached 2.5 million people with life-saving food and nutrition assistance. With the end of the drought response in June 2019, WFP prioritized delivering in-kind food assistance to highly food-insecure communities in remote provinces. WFP reached 1.8 million people affected by other natural disasters, seasonally food-insecure people in rural and urban areas, conflict-affected people, refugees and returnees — nearly three times more people than in 2018. Building on its shift towards more sustainable solutions, WFP assisted 464,000 beneficiaries through resilience livelihoods activities. This included building and rehabilitation of 107 km of roads connecting farmers with markets, planting 720,000 trees and construction of 480 km of flood protection walls and canals to improve irrigation. To strengthen self-reliance, WFP provided vocational skills training to 25,700 vulnerable men and women. WFP reached 838,000 children, primary school students and pregnant and lactating women with prevention or treatment of malnutrition programmes, which was more than double the number reached in 2018. Moreover, WFP continued to strengthen food systems by supporting 38 flour mills strategically located in six provinces of the country. WFP-supported mills produced 125,000 mt of wheat flour fortified with micronutrients, to improve the availability of nutritious food. Of these, WFP procured 80,000 mt for its operations.

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