Attachments
In Numbers
42,042 mt of food distributed in May 2023
US$ 9.1 m in cash-based transfers made
US$ 918 million six months (June-November 2023) net funding requirements.
6.4 million people assisted in May 2023
Operational Updates
• Overall, cash-based transfers accounted for 18 percent of assistance provided across all activities in April. More than 981,000 people received direct cash and value vouchers, totaling nearly US$7.3 million transferred. Some 285,000 people received commodity vouchers, worth a total US$1.8 million.
General Food Assistance
• Severe funding constraints forced WFP to cut a further 4 million people from emergency food assistance programming for the second consecutive month, while ration sizes for IPC Phase 4 households remained reduced to cover 50 percent of one’s basic needs, instead of 75 percent.
• Since April 2023, 8 million people have been cut from emergency food assistance programming due to funding shortfalls.
• Overall, 4.7 million people received emergency food assistance, including 3.6 million via in-kind transfers and more than 1 million via cash-based transfers.
Nutrition Support
• WFP provided specialized nutritious foods for the prevention of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) to more than 888,300 children (aged 6-59 months), and pregnant and breastfeeding women (PBW).
Additionally, WFP provided malnutrition treatment services to more than 533,600 PBW and children.
Asset Creation and Livelihoods
• WFP provided in-kind and cash-based assistance to nearly 278,000 people through Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) projects, which seek to strengthen community resilience through asset creation and rehabilitation.
• WFP assisted more than 11,670 people with cashbased transfers and livelihoods training through Food Assistance for Training (FFT) projects in eight provinces.
School Feeding
• In May, WFP reached nearly 909,000 primary students with High Energy Biscuits or Bread+ through its School Feeding programme.
• Take-home rations of vegetable oil were also provided to more than 28,300 primary schoolgirls.