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Mali Regional Crisis Situation Report #1, 25 March 2015

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Situation Update
According to UNHCR, there are some 86,000 internally displaced persons in Mali and 16,000 returnees. Burkina Faso shelters 32,000 Malian refugees, while Mauritania and Niger host 52,000 and 49,000 Malian refugees, respectively.

WFP Response

Under its Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO) 200719 in Mali, WFP is responding to immedi-ate food needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnees, among other needs intended to save lives, promote stability and contribute to achieving the Zero Hunger Challenge. Under its Regional Emergency Operation (EMOP) 200438, WFP is addressing life-saving needs of Malian refugees in Burkina Faso, Mauri-tania and Niger, who fled conflict in northern Mali since early 2012. In February, WFP assisted some 303,000 beneficiaries under the PRRO in Mali and some 125,000 under the Regional EMOP.

Mali

  • Through PRRO 200719, WFP aims to assist up to 1.1 million beneficiaries this year through targeted general food distributions (GFD), school feeding, nutrition and food assistance for assets (FFA).

  • WFP’s operations in the north of Mali are increasingly impacted by insecurity. A WFP cooperating partner in Algouni (Timbuktu region) has left due to insecurity, significantly impacting WFP’s nutrition activities.

  • The security situation in the Youwarou and Tenenkou Cercles (Mopti region) is also constraining monitoring activities by WFP staff. As of February, four schools assisted by school feeding programme have closed due to insecurity.

Burkina Faso

  • In 2015, WFP is targeting up to 32,000 Malian refu-gees in Burkina Faso affected by continued insecurity in northern Mali. They are being assisted through GFD, targeted supplementary food assistance (TSF) and emergency school feeding. In February, WFP reached some 31,000 Malian refugees in Burkina Faso.

  • In January and February, Burkina Faso experienced a slight influx of refugees from Mali with the arrival of almost 300 individuals.

  • If no immediate contributions are received, WFP will experience deficits for GFD from April to June, and is looking into regional loans and cutting rations.

Mauritania

  • In February, WFP reached over 51,000 Malian refu-gees in Mauritania. However, breaks in the food sup-ply pipeline forced WFP to reduce the ration distribut-ed to refugees in February. WFP also suspended its March distributions due to lack of resources. Loans from another WFP project are being considered to continue emergency school feeding and nutrition ac-tivities.

  • Preliminary results of the Food Security monitoring survey conducted in December 2014 by the Commis-sariat à la Securité Alimentaire show continued dete-rioration of food security, with levels similar to 2011.

Niger

  • In February, WFP reached some 43,000 Malian refu-gees in camps and hosting sites in Niger.

  • WFP has been conducting mVAM assessments in the Abala camp (Tillaberi region) since January 2015. The mVAM project entails food security data collec-tion from households through mobile phone surveys. This enables the rapid detection of any deterioration in the food security situation of households and the appropriate response (e.g. launching of alerts or more in-depth assessments). According to the second round of mVAM that was conducted at the end of February, the refugees’ food security situation can be considered as fragile.