Annual Country Report 2018: Islamic Republic of Iran. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2020

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2018.

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With the launch of the Interim Country Strategic Plan (ICSP) in 2018, WFP Iran embarked on a new path of replacing its traditional in-kind food assistance with a combination of in-kind and cash-based transfers (CBT) for refugees from Afghanistan and Iraq, who are residing in 13 provinces across the country. The roll-out of the ICSP ensured that 30,000 of the most economically vulnerable and food-insecure Afghan and Iraqi refugees living in 20 settlements in Iran have adequate access to sufficient and diversified food at all times, allowing them to meet their basic food and nutrition needs. WFP also continued to promote education and empowerment of women and girls through educational incentives and livelihood schemes. In 2018, WFP and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) undertook initial steps to develop a joint livelihood initiative to support 50 refugee women through greenhouse cultivation of saffron in one of the settlements, offering additional means of income-generation while promoting women's economic empowerment. For its in-kind assistance, WFP continued to purchase wheat flour from local suppliers in 2018, which has proven to be more cost-effective. Local procurement improves timeliness and reduces shelf life issues, while also contributing to the local economy. WFP dispatched wheat flour to each settlement every two months, significantly reducing storage time and ensuring good quality of this staple in the refugee food basket.

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