Annual Country Report 2019: Algeria. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2022

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2019.

English

38 p.

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WFP has achieved several key milestones in 2019 to reach its objective of a greater focus on nutrition concerns across activities. First, in the GFA food basket, the monthly ration of sugar was reduced from 1kg per person to 750 grams, aligning to the World Health Organisation (WHO) standard. Second, WFP reinforced the inter-sectorial coordination on nutrition through the creation of a bi-monthly nutrition platform, following a recommendation of the decentralized evaluation of WFP’s nutrition activities in 2018. Third, since October, WFP and the Algerian Red Crescent (CRA) provided almost 8,000 pregnant and lactating women and girls with access to fresh food through the camps’ first large-scale voucher project, thanks to a new partnership with USAID Food For Peace (FFP). Fourth, WFP introduced activities to prevent Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM) in women and children. Fifth, WFP reinforced its team with a nutritionist to help the strategic shift to mainstreaming nutrition across all its activities. Sixth, WFP finalized the first phase to design a Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) strategy that will include an action plan to incorporate nutrition behaviour change across all WFP activities. WFP’s school feeding programme encouraged children to go to the 82 camp schools and kindergartens. Around 39,000 children attended school regularly in the first half of the scholastic year 2019/2020. WFP and CRA supported 485 children aged 6–59 months, and 754 pregnant and lactating women with specialised nutritious foods. WFP’s complementary livelihood activities provided refugee men and women with opportunities that increase food security in the camps. WFP’s new resilience approach identifies opportunities and fosters interconnectedness with other activities and partners to increase access to fresh and protein-rich food.

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