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Summary of WFP assistance:
While Tanzania has a fast growing economy, this is predominantly an urban phenomenon. A vast majority of Tanzanians reside in rural areas and rely on subsistence level farming, which renders them vulnerable to climatic, economic and seasonal shocks. WFP runs a Country Programme in food insecure areas of the country and a Refugee Operation in north western Tanzania.
Country Programme: To address short term hunger, WFP provides primary school children in drought prone and food insecure Dodoma and Singida regions with one meal a day through its School Meals programme. By supporting over 370,000 school children, WFP aimed to increase attendance, improve concentration in the classroom and reduce dropouts and gender disparity. WFP plans to launch a Home Grown School Feeding pilot to initiate the gradual process of handing over school feeding to government institutions and local communities. WFP is also working with the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training to develop a handover strategy and national guidelines for the School Meals programme. WFP’s Food Assistance for Asset Creation programme (FFA) supports populations unable to mitigate recurring economic, climatic or seasonal shocks. FFA activities provide food in exchange for work on building and rehabilitating productive assets, which in turn strengthens community resilience, reduces vulnerability and enhances local food access and food availability. FFA is complemented by the Korea International Cooperation Agency’s Saemaul Zero Hunger Communities project, which focuses on income generation and community leadership. Activities include building a girls dormitory for secondary students, renovating three dispensaries in Dodoma region, and providing quarterly trainings for communities on post-harvest management, community management and participatory leadership.
On the nutrition front, WFP’s Supplementary Feeding Programme helps treat moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) by providing a monthly take home ration of fortified blended food to pregnant and nursing mothers and children under five.
To prevent stunting, pregnant and nursing women and children under the age of two receive a monthly take home ration of Super Cereal under the Mother and Child Health and Nutrition programme. WFP's nutrition interventions are focused in Dodoma and Singida regions, both of which have high rates of stunting and wasting.
Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO): Since the 1970’s, Tanzania has hosted refugees who fled into the north western region following unrest in neighbouring countries. In the nineties, Tanzania hosted over one million refugees in 12 refugee camps. Until April 2015, Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Kasulu district, Kigoma region was the only remaining refugee camp, populated mainly by around 65,500 Congolese refugees. However, political unrest in Burundi has led over a hundred thousand refugees to flee to Tanzania since the end of April 2015. As a result, the Government of Tanzania has allocated three former camps to accommodate the new Burundian refugees, namely, Nduta, Karago and Mtendeli Refugee Camps. WFP assistance is the main source of food for refugees. WFP provides food to refugees through a general food distribution (GFD) and supplementary feeding programmes. Through GFD, every 28 days, a food basket of Super Cereal, pulses, vegetable oil, and salt provides refugees with their minimum dietary requirement of 2,100 Kcal per person per day.
Purchase for Progress (P4P): Through P4P, WFP connects farmers to agricultural markets and supports them to become competitive players in the market place. P4P covers 14 districts in 10 regions and reaches some 18,000 smallholder farmers, 43 percent of whom are women. To reach farmers, WFP engages with 28 Savings and Credit Cooperatives, which provide credit and savings accounts to smallholders. An agreement between WFP and Tanzania’s National Food Reserve Agency provides P4P-supported farmer’s with a potentially sustainable market for their crops
Patient Procurement Platform (PPP): Ensuring that smallholder farmers are active members of the value chain presents an important opportunity to assist their move away from subsistence farming. PPP brings together private and public partners, to offer mechanisms for smallholder farmers to receive the appropriate information, investment and support from seed to market. PPP plans to reach 75,000 farmers through pre-planting contracts with the private sector.
United Nations Development Assistance Programme (UNDAP): WFP is part of the United Nations Development Assistance Programme (2011-2016), which is the business plan for the UN in Tanzania.