Annual Country Report 2023: Côte d'Ivoire. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2025

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2023.

English

75 p.

ELR2223

In Côte d'Ivoire, WFP's comprehensive approach combines emergency response with long-term development initiatives, fostering resilience and human capital. WFP collaborates closely with the Government, offering capacity strengthening support that enhances sustainable livelihoods, resilience, and human capital. The prevalence of hunger and malnutrition, and their root causes, remained key priorities for WFP's work in Côte d'Ivoire. Interventions aimed to alleviate chronic malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies by primarily targeting vulnerable populations, such as children aged 6 to 59 months. Notable progress was made, with a decrease in the prevalence of stunting. In 2023, WFP continued to support the Côte d’Ivoire Government in making school feeding sustainable through its advocacy and policy work. In line with this, a cost-benefit analysis of school feeding was conducted by WFP with support from Harvard University. This highlighted the positive return on investment of school meals; for each USD 1 dollar invested by WFP, USD 9 dollars was generated. WFP also launched an emergency response to address the food and nutrition needs of asylum seekers from Burkina Faso. As the only agency providing cash-based transfers to asylum seekers and host populations, WFP provided direct cash assistance to 14,000 people (57 percent women) from August-December 2023.

Electronic ed.

ELR 2223

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