Annual Country Report 2020: Bolivia (Plurinational State of). Country Strategic Plan 2018-2022

Annual Country Report 2020: Bolivia (Plurinational State of). Country Strategic Plan 2018-2022

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2020.

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Bolivia started 2020 in socioeconomic and political turmoil after a contested presidential election at the end of 2019 resulted in a transitional government. WFP Bolivia focused on assessing the food security situation and preparing the delivery of assistance to the people affected by conflicts and blockades mostly in urban areas. WFP Bolivia adapted very quickly and incorporated food for training (FFT), food assistance for assets (FFA) and general food distribution (GFD) through cash-based transfer mechanisms (CBT). In addition, WFP prioritized new areas and population groups, adjusted the school feeding activities and expanded support to subsistence farmers to ensure food access to the most vulnerable. Due to nationwide school closures, an attempt by the Government to contain COVID-19, WFP school feeding activities had to adapt from on-site food distributions to take-home-rations. Almost 5,000 school students received daily meals to improve their nutrition and alleviate the burden for families under lockdown restrictions. In addition, support to subsistence farmers increased from 1,400 to more than 10,500 smallholder farmers, through FFA to provide food assistance to rehabilitate community assets, improve farming productivity and renew income generation. This work increased the resilience of their communities, improved crop yields by restoring irrigation channels, installed more than seven hundred water systems (i.e., traditional wells and rain harvesting systems) and other defensive assets (i.e., gabions). These improved assets helped decreased manual labour working hours for households, especially for women, who are traditionally responsible for the livestock and water collection on farms.

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