Annual Country Report 2020: Benin. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023
2020
ELR 1778
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Title
Annual Country Report 2020: Benin. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023
Imprint
Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2020.
Language Note
English
Description
47 p.
ISBN/LRC Code
ELR1778
Summary
Contributing towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 ‘Zero Hunger’, the number of people reached to improve their food security has increased to 718,418 beneficiaries (49 percent women and 51 percent men), which corresponds to 81 percent of the target set for 2020 and an increase of 11 percent compared to 2019 [1]. Meanwhile, as a contribution towards SDG 17 'Partnerships for the Goals', WFP provided technical assistance and emergency preparedness and response capacity strengthening interventions to local authorities and national institutions. The implementation of the national integrated school-feeding programme in 3,849 public primary schools, entrusted by the Government to WFP, remained the major activity of the CSP portfolio. WFP ensured that the 660,654 children benefiting from the programme received a meal every school day; however, the COVID-19 pandemic forced a three-month closure of schools. This led to under-consumption of food commodities and impacted education outcomes, with attendance, drop-out and retention rates of pupils underperforming compared to 2019 levels. School canteens reopened on the same week classes resumed (in May), and WFP adjusted its operations to insure the respect of preventive sanitary measures on site. WFP introduced a crisis response strategic outcome 4 into its programmatic framework. Consequently, WFP built its emergency response and coordination capacities by hiring emergency experts, to be able to successfully implement the new CSP activity. Overall in 2020, WFP was able to address the food and nutrition needs of 57,764 flood-affected populations, distributing food rations and specialized nutritional products for pregnant and lactating women and girls and children diagnosed as malnourished.
Note
Electronic ed.
Call Number
ELR 1778
Language
English
System Control No.
MON-127349
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Annual Country Report (ACR)