Annual Country Report 2019: Burundi. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2020
2019
ELR 1789
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Title
Annual Country Report 2019: Burundi. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2020
Imprint
Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2019.
Language Note
English
Description
64 p.
ISBN/LRC Code
ELR1789
Summary
In 2019, WFP supported food, nutrition, livelihoods, logistics and other needs of 1.3 million food-insecure people (51 percent women) in Burundi. Efforts to improve nutrition contributed to a reduction of prevalence of stunting by two percent from 56 percent. WFP provided food assistance to over 50,000 Congolese refugees in five camps and to 338,380 vulnerable food-insecure populations, including Burundians returnees. WFP implemented community-based resilience-building activities focusing on watersheds for erosion control, afforestation, installation of household composters for soil fertility restoration, and installation of household kitchen gardens, reaching 41,200 beneficiaries, including 20,834 women. School feeding, a significant safety net in Burundi, reached more than 621,000 children fed daily by WFP in 820 schools. Despite pipeline breaks, the programme stimulated enrolment and attendance, which increased by 2 and 1 percent respectively in 2019, in line with a positive trend over the years. WFP supported capacity strengthening of the national school feeding system, contributing to the development of the National School Feeding Implementation Strategy and South-South cooperation with Senegal. WFP’s promotion of local purchases from smallholder farmers led to the launching of milk rations in schools through a private sector partnership. Local procurement of food commodities from farmers, some 30 percent, translated into USD 2.2 million injected into the local economy.
Note
Electronic ed.
Call Number
ELR 1789
Language
English
System Control No.
MON-127364
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WFP Taxonomy
Annual Country Report (ACR)