Annual Country Report 2019: Guinea-Bissau. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2024
2019
ELR 1866
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Title
Annual Country Report 2019: Guinea-Bissau. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2024
Imprint
Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2019.
Language Note
English
Description
68 p.
ISBN/LRC Code
ELR1866
Summary
In cooperation with the Ministry of Education and with support from the US Department of Agriculture’s Food for Education Programme, WFP achieved timely delivery of 3,534 mt in food contributions to school canteens in 865 primary schools across all eight regions of the country, excluding the capital city Bissau, with WFP meeting the planned target to reach 178,083 Bissau-Guinean schoolchildren with hot and nutritious meals at school. School feeding and take-home rations provided to girls in grades four to six supported school enrolment, attendance, and retention during the 2018-2019 academic year, in addition to improving kids' access to food. 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. Up to 79,128 schoolchildren, in 274 schools, in six regions benefited from locally grown, fresh and nutritious tubers and beans produced by smallholder farmer associations in nearby communities. For the first time in WFP’s food assistance history in Guinea-Bissau, WFP support to smallholders targeted rural women and their empowerment, which included literacy, nutrition and value chain skills and knowledge transfer. Nutrition assistance providing SuperCereal Plus, premixed corn and soy powder with micronutrients, for treatment of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and prevention of stunting benefitted 1,201 children aged 6–59 months and 4,953 children aged 6 to 23 months.
Note
Electronic ed.
Call Number
ELR 1866
Language
English
System Control No.
MON-127748
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WFP Taxonomy
Annual Country Report (ACR)