Annual Country Report 2020: Yemen. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2020

Annual Country Report 2020: Yemen. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2020

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2020.

English

67 p.

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Yemen’s conflict dragged on for a sixth year, reversing the progress made in 2019 and further exacerbating the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, compounded with the Covid-19 pandemic. WFP reached around 15 million total beneficiaries in 2020. Out of these, 13 million received Unconditional Resource Transfers (general food assistance, GFA), but beneficiaries in areas under the Sana’a-based authorities received assistance every other month from April onwards. A global shortage of specialized nutritious foods due to COVID-19 impacted the delivery of malnutrition prevention activities for pregnant and lactating women (PLW) from August onwards. Despite these challenges, WFP provided nutrition assistance to over 2.7 million beneficiaries and the overall coverage and delivery of malnutrition treatment and prevention activities were enhanced throughout the year, resulting in significant improvements in enhanced malnutrition recovery rates among pregnant and lactating women and girls and children aged 6-59 months targeted by WFP. To safeguard the food security and education of school-age children, school feeding adapted quickly to the early closure of schools from March to October, resorting to alternative take-home distributions at the beginning of the pandemic and joining inter-agency efforts to prepare for a safe return to schools. The scale of WFP’s resilience-building activities doubled compared to 2019, with around 500,000 moderately food insecure people receiving food assistance for assets (FFA), food assistance for training (FFT) and livelihoods support across the country. Over USD 21 million in cash were transferred to FFA and FFT participants to support the access of their households to food, and to enable them to build their community assets and acquire new skills.

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