Annual Country Report 2018: Democratic Republic of the Congo. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2020

Annual Country Report 2018: Democratic Republic of the Congo. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2020

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2018.

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In 2018, Some 4.6 million people across DRC were assisted with emergency food and cash, including some 200,000 with multi-purpose cash in Kasai Central, a first for WFP in the country, and another 577,000 with specially fortified foods for the treatment and prevention of moderate acute malnutrition. Two deadly outbreaks of Ebola further complicated DRC’s humanitarian landscape in 2018. WFP food and nutrition assistance for Ebola sufferers, discharged patients and their families and contacts of victims helped limit risky population movements and was fundamental to the Ebola response. WFP’s role as UN humanitarian logistics lead and the deployment of expert staff, aircraft and other assets also facilitated the humanitarian community’s response. While life-saving humanitarian priorities dictated that WFP’s focus remain on the provision of emergency relief assistance, resilience-building continued to be crucial to broader stabilization efforts in volatile areas. As such, WFP sought development and peace dividends from humanitarian investments, in line with the triple nexus approach. WFP continued to implement home-grown school feeding in North Kivu, linking smallholder farmers with schools for the provision of nutritious foods to children, and to promote the development of local supply chains. Although available resources allowed WFP to reach more people than planned with unconditional resource transfers at least once, some 50 percent of all contributions were received towards the end of the year. During 2018, WFP procured 53,000 mt of food locally.

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