Annual Country Report 2020: Egypt. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2023

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2020.

English

64 p.

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Under ongoing CSP operations, WFP launched a COVID-19 Response Plan necessitating an increase of USD 31 million, adding to a total CSP budget of USD 586.4 million. In doing so, WFP supported partner ministries by upscaling cash assistance by 15 percent, reaching over 1.4 million vulnerable people through unrestricted and unconditional electronic cash-based transfers (CBT). WFP continued to complement the national school feeding programme by providing unconditional CBT to 193,000 family members of community school students and teachers. Together, the Ministry of Education and Technical Education and WFP expanded its pioneer ‘Community Hubs’ model, increasing access to online education for teachers, students, and their community. Moreover, WFP expanded the provision of humanitarian assistance to an additional 20,000 registered refugees (reaching about 132,000 refugees) and 900,000 host community members through unrestricted food and nutrition support. In parallel, WFP and MOEEA launched the ‘Bedeya Digital’ online skills-training platform, supporting the employability of Egyptian youth (including host-community members) at risk of irregular migration. Further, WFP continued to support the implementation of the national ‘First 1,000 Days’ nutrition programme through the provision of unconditional CBT to 41,000 vulnerable Egyptian mothers and their infants registered under the Ministry of Social Solidarity’s ‘Takaful and Karama’ social protection programme. Building on the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MALR) and WFP’s successful rural development programme, WFP enhanced over 30,000 smallholder farmer’s capacity to improve their productivity and livelihoods through an integrative set of resilience-building and agricultural interventions.

Electronic ed.

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