Annual Country Report 2019: Benin. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023

Annual Country Report 2019: Benin. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2019.

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With the launch of the Benin country strategic plan 2019-2023 on 1 July 2019, WFP aimed to secure and expand its performance in supporting the Government through the implementation of an integrated school feeding programme in 3,852 public primary schools throughout the country. During the 2019-2020 school year which started on 16 September 2019, WFP ensured that all canteens were able to function and served hot and nutritious meals to the 642,615 schoolchildren, representing 83 percent of the school feeding beneficiaries targeted by WFP in 2019. The programme's logistics capacities were increased to eight warehouses capable of storing 12,000 mt of food. The freight was expanded to 21 carriers, responsible for transporting items from WFP storage locations to rural areas where school canteens were based. Each school canteen management committee was equipped and trained in food rationing, meal preparation and health and hygiene rules by local non-governmental organisations hired by WFP to deliver training, support programme monitoring and act as social mediators with local communities. A 'crisis response' outcome was added to WFP Benin Country Strategic Plan (CSP 2019-2023), that will allow WFP to deploy food and nutrition response operations in case of shocks, such as the flooding that severely affected the country in September and October 2019. WFP Benin benefited from an Immediate Response Fund to strengthen the national emergency preparedness and response capacity to mitigate potential spillover effects from the neighbouring Sahel countries (Burkina-Faso, Niger, and Mali).

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