Annual Country Report 2020: Djibouti. Country Strategic Plan 2020-2024

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2020.

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Contributing to the Government’s efforts to achieve SDG 2, Zero Hunger, WFP made progress in its shift towards providing technical assistance, services and coordination support for national food and nutrition security policies and programmes, and notably with the handover of the School Feeding programmes to the Ministry of Education. WFP reached 142,337 beneficiaries through unconditional resource transfers and distributed 6,137 mt of food and USD 4.3 million through cash-based transfers. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted WFP activities, which were scaled-up to respond to increased needs. In particular, WFP focused on emergency preparedness and response measures in order to provide food assistance to food insecure and vulnerable populations under SO1. WFP, in partnership with the Ministère des Affaires Sociales et des Solidarités [1] (MASS), provided restricted-use vouchers to 6,000 urban households and food to 2,595 rural households. In partnership with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, WFP provided food assistance to 19,253 refugees. In September, the Government successfully took over the school feeding programme from WFP, ahead of the CSP planned schedule. This quick transition stemmed not only from an absence of funding contributions or forecast contributions for WFP, but also from the readiness of the Government to take over thanks to years of capacity building and WFP’s continuing technical support.

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