Annual Country Report 2020: Senegal. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023

Annual Country Report 2020: Senegal. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2020.

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75 p.

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WFP Senegal continued the second year of implementation of its CSP, drastically scaling up its operations over the year. Close to 430,000 beneficiaries were reached in 2020, compared to 249,000 people in 2019 (73 percent more), USD 3.8 million was injected into communities (through e-cash or paper vouchers) and 94 mt of in-kind foods were distributed. More than half of the total beneficiaries were women and girls, in line with WFP's growing investments into gender. Despite critical funding constraints and operational disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, WFP maintained its leadership within the food security and nutrition sector and played a key role in supporting partners for the delivery of emergency assistance. In addition to the COVID-19 response, WFP continued to implement the lean season assistance, school feeding interventions to enhance access to education, nutrition activities to fight malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies, and strengthening of smallholder farmers’ resilience and partners' capacities to tackle the root causes of food insecurity and malnutrition. During the lean season WFP provided a package of services combining cash-based transfers (CBTs) and nutrition interventions. Post lean season, the same communities received resilience strengthening assistance through asset creation activities meant to create productive community infrastructures (i.e rehabilitated lands). These livelihood interventions reached 151,965 people overall in 2020. On the nutrition front, WFP implemented malnutrition prevention and treatment activities, reaching respectively 4,738 and 2,592 children aged 6-59 months and pregnant and lactating women from vulnerable communities.

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