Annual Country Report 2020: Somalia. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2021

Annual Country Report 2020: Somalia. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2021

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2020.

English

89 p.

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In 2020, WFP reached 4.5 million women, men, girls and boys across Somalia by providing cash-based transfers (CBT), food assistance, training and capacity strengthening - 90 percent of the entitlements were received in the hands of women and girls. To mitigate exclusion risks whether related to clan, gender, disability or age, which are key drivers of vulnerability to food insecurity in Somalia, WFP initiated discussions with minority rights organizations to improve minority inclusion in targeting and programming. WFP reached 31,000 people living with disabilities. The COVID-19 pandemic presented unprecedented challenges to the delivery of humanitarian assistance; WFP successfully adapted its programmes and operations to mitigate the risk of virus transmission and maintain its life-saving operations. WFP accelerated plans to implement a mobile money transfer solution - a contactless cash delivery - at the onset of the pandemic through which 937,000 people received food assistance. WFP shifted school feeding from in-kind food assistance to value vouchers through the Home-Grown School Feeding Programme in August. Schools purchased food items locally, offering a diversified diet to 90,000 schoolchildren while supporting local markets.

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