Attachments
In Numbers
99,660 mt of food distributed
US$29.8 million in cash-based transfers made
US$1.46 billion six months (December 2022-May 2023) net funding requirements
12.4 million people assisted
Operational Updates
General Food Assistance
• In November, WFP surpassed 1 million mt of food distribution in 2022. WFP also disbursed more than US$260 million worth of cash-based transfers.
• WFP reached 12.4 million people with emergency food, nutrition, and livelihood support in November, including 16,940 internally displaced people, across all 34 provinces of Afghanistan.
• Cash-based transfers delivered via direct cash, vouchers, and mobile money, accounted for 28 percent of assistance provided in November.
Asset creation and livelihoods
• WFP assisted more than 390,000 people through Food Assistance for Assets across 26 provinces to meet their basic food needs while building their resilience against recurrent shocks and stressors.
• WFP assisted more than 27,000 people through Food Assistance for Training (FFT) activities, including more than 13,000 women. FFT activities are operational in 16 provinces.
Nutrition Support
• WFP assisted more than 708,000 children aged 6-59 months and pregnant and lactating women with nutritious foods for the prevention of acute malnutrition, while providing malnutrition treatment to 625,000 women and children.
• WFP currently supports more than 1,770 health centers and 427 mobile health and nutrition teams to ensure continued and equitable access in hard-toreach areas.
School feeding
• WFP distributed 758 mt of Bread+ and 520 mt of high energy biscuits to more than 558,000 primary students and 523 mt of fortified vegetable oil to 84,000 primary schoolgirls.
• Around 3,600 secondary-level girls received cash incentives in Balkh, Jawzjan, Sar-e-Pol, and Zabul provinces where they are permitted to attend school.
• School Feeding activities have resumed in all areas after successful negotiations with de facto authorities.