Annual Country Report 2020: Peru. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2022

Annual Country Report 2020: Peru. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2022

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2020.

English

51 p.

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Until March 2020, WFP Peru exclusively focused on government capacity strengthening to enhance nutrition, social protection and disaster risk management policies and programmes. Nevertheless, as the COVID-19 pandemic unexpectedly triggered an unprecedented global humanitarian and economic crisis, WFP Peru immediately adjusted its Country Strategic Plan to incorporate two new crisis response strategic outcomes. As part of these adjustments, WFP Peru established an emergency response unit to coordinate the provision of cash transfers to ensure food access for the most vulnerable populations. This mainly included Venezuelan refugees and migrants that cannot access the national social protection mechanisms. The WFP emergency response unit also coordinated the implementation of logistics augmentation activities to support the nationwide distribution of food and non-food items. Following its capacity strengthening-driven approach, WFP Peru also continued strengthening the Government’s technical capabilities to improve nutrition, social protection and disaster risk management policies and programmes, both for the COVID-19 context and beyond. Despite the challenging circumstances, WFP successfully adapted its operations both through the implementation of web-based remote tools as well as strict biosecurity protocols to enable direct and only essential field interventions.

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