Annual Country Report 2020: Guinea-Bissau. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2024
2020
ELR 1867
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Title
Annual Country Report 2020: Guinea-Bissau. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2024
Imprint
Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2020.
Language Note
English
Description
68 p.
ISBN/LRC Code
ELR1867
Summary
In 2020, WFP strengthened national capacities to implement the SDGs and reached 216,058 vulnerable girls, boys, women and men in 2020 through its CSP’s five strategic outcomes. This exceeded the planned target (214,631) and the number of people reached in 2019 (183,823). WFP collaborated with the Ministry of Education in the implementation of the national school feeding programme across all eight regions of the country (excluding the capital city Bissau), targeting schoolchildren in 874 primary schools. However, the closure of schools on 18 March as part of national COVID-19 containment measures directly affected 180,000 schoolchildren who could no longer benefit from the daily school meals, impacting on their education and food and nutrition security. In response, WFP adjusted its on-site school feeding assistance into alternative take-home rations, allowing schoolchildren to continue safely benefiting from the largest social safety net in the country during school closures. Integrated programming for home-grown school feeding and support to women smallholder farmers benefited from financial support from the Governments of Guinea-Bissau and Japan. In 2020, WFP expanded home-grown school feeding to eight regions and 874 schools, up from six regions already covered since 2019. A total of 2,199 mt of diverse food commodities (tubers, rice and beans) were procured from smallholder farmer associations in nearby communities, to complement schoolchildren's meals with locally grown, fresh and nutritious foods. WFP provided nutrition assistance to 1,443 children aged 6-59 months for treatment of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM), and to 7,257 children aged 6-23 months for the prevention of stunting. The three regions with the highest stunting rates - Oio, Bafatá, and Gabu - were targeted for this assistance where WFP provided Super Cereal Plus, premixed corn and soy powder with micronutrients.
Note
Electronic ed.
Call Number
ELR 1867
Language
English
System Control No.
MON-127749
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Annual Country Report (ACR)