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WFP Zimbabwe Country Brief, July 2016

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Highlights

  • WFP’s El Niño Response running through March 2017, continues to face a USD 142 million shortfall.
  • WFP is prioritizing its assistance to meet the emergency needs of affected people, however, without sufficient funding, WFP will be unable to continue providing this life saving assistance.
  • The Seasonal Livelihood Programming is being extended into two additional districts to strengthen resilience activities in the country.
  • In July, WFP assisted 299,000 people through the Lean Season Assistance programme.

Operational Updates

  • WFP’s El Niño response, has received USD 40 million, through contributions from USAID, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden and WFP internal resources.
  • In July, WFP assisted 299,000 people in 11 districts under the Lean Season Assistance. In August, WFP will scale-up its assistance to 344,000 food-insecure people using both food and cash assistance. The programme is still trailing behind its target for the quarter of 1.3 million people, due to funding constraints.
  • In July, the Productive Asset Creation programme assisted 95,000 people in 7 districts through its dual role of meeting the immediate food needs of food insecure households, while also rehabilitating/creating community assets that enhance livelihoods and build resilience to future shocks. Fifty-two assets will be created and rehabilitated during 2016.
  • With the Government, WFP provided one hot meal of fortified corn-soya blend per day to primary school children under the Emergency School Feeding Programme (ESFP). In July, the programme reached 10,000 pupils in two of the most food-insecure rural districts (Mbire and Zvishavane, under LSA).
  • WFP plans to extend its Seasonal Livelihood Programming (SLP) to two additional districts in August - a total of districts where the exercise has been undertaken. The SLP is part of the three-pronged approach to resilience building: a consultative process aimed at designing an integrated multi-year, multi-sectorial operational plan using seasonal and gender lenses.
  • With the transition to the new PPRO 200944 in July, WFP increased the refugee cash ration from USD 11 to USD 13. In July, WFP assisted 8,150 refugees with USD 99,450, whilst new arrivals received food assistance.
  • The Prevention of Stunting project provided nutritional supplements to 5,725 children aged between 6-23 months in Mutasa District. The Moderate Acute Malnutrition treatment component of the Health and Nutrition Programme assisted 2,348 adults and children through clinics in Mutasa district, Harare, and Bulawayo Metropolitan Provinces.