Annual Country Report 2018: Mauritania. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2018

Annual Country Report 2018: Mauritania. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2018

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2018.

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Launching its Interim Country Strategic Plan in 2018, WFP started to progressively assume a more enabling role to support the Government of Mauritania in establishing the national Adaptive Social Protection System (ASP). To address the root causes of Mauritania’s structural vulnerabilities, WFP promoted and implemented a longer-term resilience approach combining various protective and productive interventions. WFP’s school feeding programme was scaled up during the 2018/2019 school year to reach around 59,000 primary schoolchildren (45 percent girls and 55 percent boys) in the last quarter of 2018. WFP maintained its strong emergency response capacity by providing a lifeline to 344,000 food-insecure and malnourished Mauritanians (respectively 44 and 56 percent for women and men) impacted by the severe drought that hit the country in 2017. Furthermore, WFP continued assisting 56,000 Malian refugees who had now been living in the Mbera camp at the border with Mali since 2012. In the meantime, WFP laid the foundation for a livelihood strategy to respond to the Malian protracted crisis in Mauritania, facilitating a gradual shift away from care and maintenance to enhance Malian refugees’ self-reliance and the resilience of local populations. Food assistance-for-assets programmes were scaled up to reach 29,000 people (52 percent women and 48 percent men) and helped to create sustainable assets for resilient livelihoods while providing cash entitlements.

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