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

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

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2018.

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29 p.

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In 2018, Support was provided to the national school feeding programme through provision of nutritious meals to 104,490 primary schoolchildren in 620 schools in the Northern, Upper East, Upper West and South regions for the school year. WFP provided assistance to pregnant and lactating women and children aged 6-59 months in the north of the country for the treatment of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) (strategic outcome 2). Despite the reduction in the number of beneficiaries from 2,510 in 2017 to 1,389 in 2018 because of funding constraints, WFP’s nutritional assistance to vulnerable groups helped improve their nutritional status in the districts of Karimama and Malanville. Under the strategic outcome 3, limited resources prevented WFP from implementing food assistance for-assets activities in vulnerable district of Malanville in the north of Benin, to support local smallholder farmer production through local purchase and improve the livelihood of local communities. Within six months, WFP, through capacity strengthening, successfully completed the handover of the school feeding programme to the Government under the national school feeding programme.

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