Annual Country Report 2019: South Sudan. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2020

Annual Country Report 2019: South Sudan. Country Strategic Plan 2018-2020

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2019.

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The multiple crises South Sudan faces created a challenging and dynamic humanitarian context for WFP in 2019. WFP continued to provide life-saving food and nutrition assistance, reaching 4.8 million beneficiaries. As people affected by conflict rebuilt their livelihoods, WFP supported them through resilience building activities. Through the Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) programme WFP supported vulnerable households to address their immediate food needs through cash transfers or food assistance, while at the same time promoting long-term food security and resilience by supporting the creation of assets - such as vegetable gardens and community access roads - that help improve food availability at the household level and reduce the risk of disaster. The FFA programme reached 590,000 people and enabled households’ self-sufficiency and resilience to future shocks. WFP continued to support the local economy, injecting USD 46 million in local markets through cash-based transfers and purchasing 8,300 mt of food locally at a value of USD 2.7 million. By the end of 2019, WFP rehabilitated 1,000 km of strategic roads and completed construction of the 120 m Kuajok Bridge, connecting tens of thousands of people, enabling humanitarian operations and boosting farm-to-market access as well as commercial activities in South Sudan. In 2019 WFP, provided technical and financial support to the Ministry of General Education and Instruction in launching the National Home-Grown School Feeding Strategy.

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