Annual Country Report 2018: Egypt. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2023
2018
ELR 1835
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Title
Annual Country Report 2018: Egypt. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2023
Imprint
Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2018.
Language Note
English
Description
40 p.
ISBN/LRC Code
ELR1835
Summary
As a strategic partner of the Government, WFP continued to complement the national school feeding programme, reinforcing the value of education and helping avert issues such as early marriage, child labour and irregular migration. WFP provided food assistance through locally produced fortified school snacks to 74,194 children and conditional take-home entitlements to 357,700 of their family members from July to December 2018, reducing barriers to education as evidenced by a 92 percent attendance rate and 97 percent retention rate in 3,098 assisted community schools. Moreover, through a holistic approach, WFP supported education enhancement through various initiatives: the renovation of school facilities; training of teachers’; and the provision of livelihood trainings and micro-loans for students’ families, with a focus on schools in under-privileged areas and those hosting refugees. WFP continued to support the implementation of the national ‘First 1,000 Days’ programme through a multisectoral partnership with the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MoSS), the Ministry of Health and Population, and the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade. The ‘First 1,000 Days’ programme helped improve the nutritional status of targeted pregnant and lactating women through cash assistance redeemable for nutritional items from local retailers. The programme also garnered the support of private sector partners through social behavioural change communication interventions. Building on the programme’s success in improving access of vulnerable communities to public nutrition services, MoSS aims to streamline the programme within Egypt’s national social protection programme.
Note
Electronic ed.
Call Number
ELR 1835
Language
English
System Control No.
MON-127716
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WFP Taxonomy
Annual Country Report (ACR)