Annual Country Report 2020: Mali. Country Strategic Plan 2020-2024

Annual Country Report 2020: Mali. Country Strategic Plan 2020-2024

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2020.

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Following the outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020, WFP scaled up its emergency response in country, reaching 2.1 million people with relief food assistance, mainly in the northern and central regions most affected by conflict. WFP also increased its nutrition coverage, reaching 217,824 children aged 6-59 months and 18,606 pregnant and lactating women. This emergency response has likely contributed to the improvement of households' access to food in 2020 with women's minimum dietary diversity notably increasing from 16 to 22 percent between July and December 2020. However, access to a minimum acceptable diet among children aged 6-23 months remains very poor despite a slight improvement noted during the same period (3.7 to 4.8 percent). Under its resilience response, WFP supported communities to diversify their livelihoods, restore ecosystems, create jobs in rural areas in order to address the structural causes of vulnerabilities. In 2020, WFP’s assistance helped restore and protect 1,113 ha of degraded land against wind and/or water erosion. Boreholes were equipped with solar systems to support vegetable gardening mostly implemented by women. These resilience interventions contribute to social cohesion, by easing tension over the use of natural resources which underpin many of the conflicts in the country. For 70.6 percent of assisted households, the assets created or rehabilitated have contributed to protecting their goods and increasing their productive capacities.

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