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In Numbers
1,546 people assisted in February 2025
USD 6,300 transferred to beneficiaries (as part of the new e-wallet initiative)
USD 2.8 m six months (March – August 2025) net funding requirements
Operational Updates
- In February, WFP, in coordination with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), initiated a pilot cash-for-food emergency assistance for refugees and local households to support their food needs. Sixty-two refugees received cash transferred to their e-wallets to buy food. The pilot leverages existing digital infrastructure to develop accessible and innovative mechanisms to deliver cash assistance more rapidly to vulnerable populations in Armenia. The e-wallet for food pilot will expand in March, targeting 200 vulnerable local households.
- WFP is co-financing a cooperative-based logistics hub in Tavush, covering 55 percent of the funding with the community contributing 45 percent. This hub is designed to improve local fruit, berry, and vegetable value chains, promote sustainable agricultural practices, and generate new economic opportunities for smallholder farmers. It will facilitate the collection, sorting, storage, and processing of fruits, vegetables, and berries, ensuring they remain fresh or are processed into frozen or dried products for market distribution. The center will support around 30,000 smallholder farmers and 250 medium-sized farms. WFP provides implementation support, agricultural inputs (including machinery, equipment, and production lines), non-food items for construction activities, and capacity-building for stakeholders.
- In February, nine bakeries (seven in Lori, one in Armavir and one in Kotayk provinces) were renovated as part of the Wholegrain Value Chain activities. This initiative involved roof repairs by bakeries to facilitate the installation of solar stations, with each bakery set to receive a 20 kWt capacity solar station. Solar stations will lower operational costs and improve the bakeries’ market competitiveness, particularly for wholegrain wheat products. The bakeries provide 30 percent co-financing to be included in the whole grain value chain.