Annual Country Report 2018: Guinea-Bissau. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2019
2018
ELR 1862
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Titre
Annual Country Report 2018: Guinea-Bissau. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2019
Mention d'impression
Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2018.
Note sur les langues
English
Description
40 p.
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ELR1862
Résumé
In cooperation with the Ministry of Education and the US Department of Agriculture’s Food for Education Programme, WFP achieved timely delivery of 3,323 mt in food contributions to school canteens in 758 primary schools across all eight regions of the country, meeting the planned target to reach 173,500 Bissau-Guinean schoolchildren with hot and nutritious meals at school. School feeding and take-home rations provided to girls in grades 4 to 6 supported school enrolment and retention during the 2017/18 academic year. Capacity strengthening in school feeding programme management at central, regional and local levels included improvements in school meal preparation, meal quality, safety and hygiene, as well as efforts to engage communities for a more active role. Integrated programming for home-grown school feeding and support to women smallholder farmers benefitted from financial support from the governments of Guinea-Bissau and Japan. Nutrition assistance providing SuperCereal Plus for treatment of moderate acute malnutrition benefitted 1,200 children aged 6–59 months in three regions with highest rates of stunting. WFP provided support for evidence based-advocacy, improved programme design, and strengthened capacity of national partners through research activities such as the study of Cost of Hunger in Guinea-Bissau, Zero Hunger Strategic Review (ZHSR), and knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) nutrition survey.
Note
Electronic ed.
Cote
ELR 1862
Langue
Anglais
System Control No.
MON-127747
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Annual Country Report (ACR)