Annual Country Report 2019: Algeria. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2019

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2019.

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In 2019 under the T-ICSP, WFP supported 125,000 Sahrawi refugees in five camps with lifesaving food and nutrition assistance. WFP’s general food assistance covered refugees’ basic food needs by distributing a food basket with, on average, 2,277 kilocalories per person per day. The school feeding programme encouraged around 40,000 refugee boys and girls to enrol in and attend the 82 camp schools and kindergartens. Attendance rates remained stable in the scholastic year 2018/2019; overall, 97 percent of boys and girls attended school regularly. WFP supported 14,443 children aged 6–59 months with specialised nutritious foods to prevent and treat moderate acute malnutrition and anaemia and treated 719 malnourished pregnant and lactating women and girls. WFP in partnership with the French NGO Triangle Génération Humanitaire (TGH) and the Sahrawi Agricultural Training and Experimentation Centre (CEFA) launched the world’s first fish farm in a refugee camp which went operational in February 2019. A team of 15 refugee women and men were trained to run the farm and have started the first production cycle with technical guidance from an Algerian research institute. The fish farm aims to become self-sustainable in the next two years, produce 21,000 kg of fresh fish annually and serve as a training centre for refugee youth.

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