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

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2019.

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Throughout 2019, WFP continued supporting the Government’s social protection systems to improve food security and nutrition among beneficiaries by providing food and technical assistance. For the first time, WFP accompanied a pilot project to develop a nutrition behavioural-change strategy to prevent micronutrient deficiencies in Santiago de Cuba province, which has the highest anaemia prevalence in children aged 6-23 months. WFP also supported the beans value chains in 18 selected municipalities, by completing the planned distribution of agricultural equipment and tools, as well as the delivery of training and innovative practices to targeted smallholder farmers. WFP fostered the local purchase of six mt of fortified beans in Las Tunas province, that were distributed among pregnant women and children in Day Care Centres. After a severe tornado hit Havana on 27 January 2019, WFP was part of the United Nations coordinated response to provide immediate support to the affected population. WFP assisted nearly 11,260 families through a complementary food ration of rice, beans and vegetable oil. In 2019, three initiatives were approved for implementation from 2020 onwards: i) the strengthening of the early warning system through the development of a crop monitoring system, ii) the promotion of innovative financial tools (preventive and parametric insurance) to increase climate resilience, and iii) the school feeding for children in primary rural “external” schools.

Electronic ed.

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