Attachments
In Numbers
1,499 people assisted in November 2024
USD 10.8 m six months (December 2024 – May 2025) net funding requirements
Operational Updates
• WFP has launched the "Socio-Economic Integration of Refugees in Armenia" (SEIRA) project, in cooperation with the Strategic Development Agency (SDA) and funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in Armenia (SDC). The project will be implemented over the coming three years to improve the livelihoods and resilience of refugees and vulnerable host communities, while promoting their socio-economic integration. WFP will ensure that refugee and local populations have access to healthy diets, utilizing nutritious and safe homegrown food produced through sustainable agricultural practices. Around 700 smallholder farmers will strengthen their climate-smart agricultural capacities and another 150 smallholder farmers will receive climate-adaptive agricultural inputs. Ten schools will receive solar stations and establish “Revolving Funds”. Ten local bakeries will receive assets and equipment to improve their operational capacity for whole grain production.
• As part of the tripartite cooperation framework signed between WFP, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), and Armenia’s Ministry of Economy (MoE), WFP is providing technical assistance to MoE to implement and institutionalize WFP’s “Revolving Fund” community development model. The initiative aims to strengthen the capacities of ten communities, enhance their energy security, and create a source of economic regeneration. During November, WFP developed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to guide the community and household targeting process, which will be used by the MoE Project Implementation Team (PIT) to select participating communities and households.
• WFP, in collaboration with the Eurasian Development Bank and Yeremyan Projects (a dairyproducing company), launched the “Milk to Schools” initiative to promote healthy dietary habits and improve growth, learning, and overall health of schoolchildren. In November, a total of 1,009 schoolchildren from grades five to nine, across nine schools in Lori province (seven schools) and Yerevan (two schools), received a daily cup of milk, which will be provided on each school day throughout the 2024-2025 academic year.