Annual Country Report 2023: Guinea-Bissau. Country Strategic Plan 2023-2027

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2023.

English

71 p.

ELR2234

In November 2022, WFP’s Executive Board approved the Guinea-Bissau Country Strategic Plan (CSP) that runs from January 2023-December 2027, with a budget of USD 131 million for the full five years. The CSP aligns with WFP's corporate strategic outcomes 1-4. Despite a funding shortfall of 11 percent against 2023 funding requirements, WFP reached more than 222,000 people in need. WFP distributed USD 198,627 alongside 1,622 mt of food, 940 mt of seeds, 1,150 mt of fertiliser, and 1,832 litres of insecticide. As part of the crisis response component, WFP partnered with the Ministry of Women, Family and Social Solidarity, UNICEF and UNFPA, to provide cash-based transfers (CBTs) to more than 10,500 people affected by severe food insecurity, malnutrition (particularly children, people living with HIV and pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls), flooding, and forest fires across the country. This helped to increase the proportion of households with an Acceptable food consumption score from 73 percent to 95 percent. In 2023, WFP reached 179,000 schoolchildren with school meals in 852 schools - representing 50 percent of primary schools in the country. Additionally, WFP provided take-home rations to nearly 25,000 girls in grades 5 and 6, as well as 635 children with disabilities.

Electronic ed.

ELR 2234

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