Annual Country Report 2020: Cuba. Country Strategic Plan 2020-2020

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2020.

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50 p.

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Considering the challenging context of 2020, WFP rapidly responded to assist 652,479 people in six provinces and distributed 928 mt of food. Over 93 percent of all beneficiaries reached were the elderly, a particularly vulnerable population to COVID-19. WFP further contributed to the prevention of micronutrient deficiencies benefitting children aged 6-23 months, pregnant and lactating women and girls (PLWG) and elderly people in selected municipalities with the highest anaemia prevalence rates. In addition, WFP helped develop the United Nations inter-agency plan for an immediate COVID-19 socioeconomic response. Within this plan, WFP will scale-up nutrition interventions to benefit PLWG in all municipalities of the eastern provinces and elderly people assisted in community canteens in 2021. WFP managed to strengthen local capacities by establishing the links between the smallholder farmers from 28 cooperatives and 56 educational institutions to sell the food for the school meals programmes. WFP developed an assessment tool to determine the main vulnerabilities of local food production, which was implemented in 158 cooperatives from five municipalities of eastern provinces prone to drought. The application of this tool identified the main vulnerabilities of each cooperative to drought and where they are located, as well the most vulnerable farming cooperatives and agricultural value chains to drought in each municipality. These results allowed to draft initial actions to mitigate the risks identified. In 2020, WFP assisted over 652,000 people, nearly triple the people assisted in 2019.

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