Annual Country Report 2020: Guinea. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2022
2020
ELR 1860
Files
Details
Title
Annual Country Report 2020: Guinea. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2022
Imprint
Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2020.
Language Note
English
Description
59 p.
ISBN/LRC Code
ELR1860
Summary
In 2020, WFP continued to contribute towards achieving Zero Hunger by providing food and nutrition assistance to 283,500 vulnerable people, through the implementation of its Interim Country Strategic Plan (ICSP) 2019-2022. As part of its contribution towards achieving SDG 17, WFP continued to promote national ownership, formalising multisectoral and multi-stakeholder partnerships. Collaboration with the Government was reinforced to further enhance WFP's positioning as a partner of choice for implementing social protection and strengthening national capacities to address the root causes of food and nutrition insecurity. To respond to the scale of the COVID-19 crisis WFP undertook a budget revision that was approved in July 2020 which led to the scale up of the number of crisis-affected beneficiaries targeted under strategic outcome 2 from 15,000 to 315,000, and its 2020 revised budget from USD 500,000 to USD 9.9 million. WFP targeted 100,000 food insecure people for assistance, providing them with emergency food and nutrition assistance in the most food insecure areas. WFP leveraged on a holistic approach favouring partnerships to enhance the effectiveness and sustainability of its interventions. WFP managed to provide specialized nutritious foods (SNFs) to children aged 6-59 months and pregnant and lactating women and girls (PLWGs) for the treatment of acute malnutrition. In addition, PLWGs received SNFs as part of the “1,000 days project, to provide their children with essential nutrients for healthy growth in the critical phase of the first 1,000 days of life. WFP was able to quickly adapt and introduce an alternative distribution of take-home rations during schools' closure to mitigate the COVID-19 impact on school feeding, reaching over 152,000 boys and girls in primary and pre-primary schools. WFP resumed the onsite school feeding when schools reopened, contributing to school retention and attendance. WFP also successfully adjusted its Food Assistance for Assets creation activities, providing specific COVID-19 assistance through training and cash-based transfers for the production and distribution of local face masks, soaps and handwashing kits, the objective being to enhance skills and contribute to the well-being of the communities. The value of cash-transfers in 2020 increased by 162 percent compared to 2019.
Note
Electronic ed.
Call Number
ELR 1860
Language
English
System Control No.
MON-127746
Primary Descriptors
Secondary Descriptors
Geographic Terms
WFP Taxonomy
Annual Country Report (ACR)