Attachments
In Numbers
- 456,897 people assisted - 2,894 mt of food assistance distributed - US$ 1.3 million cash-based transfers made - US$ 49.1 million six-month (July-December 2023) net funding requirements
Operational Updates
• Emergency food assistance: WFP assisted about 410,000 people including refugees, internally displaced persons, and crisis-affected host communities through both in-kind and cash-based transfer distributions (US$ 1.1 million and 2,750 mt distributed in the Adamawa,
East, Far North, North, Northwest, and Southwest Regions).
• 45,000 beneficiaries in Momo and Boyo divisions in the Northwest did not receive assistance in June due to roadblocks.
• WFP is collaborating with the Ministries of Basic Education and Women's Empowerment and the Family to provide functional literacy training to heads of households who benefit from WFP’s cash-based transfers in the Far North Region. The course has garnered a lot of interest in the targeted communities and regularly attracts over 200 people, 50 more than registered.
• Early Recovery and Resilience Building: WFP assisted almost 41,900 smallholder farmers and community members in the Far North Region in the creation of productive assets. Over 71 percent of the programme participants received total cash assistance of US$ 156,000 while the remaining participants received a total of 129 mt of food. . Furthermore, 70 percent were women to empower them in decision-making about household food consumption.
• Malnutrition Prevention: Some 4,840 children aged 0-23 months in the East Region received a total of 15 mt of specialised nutritious foods to build their immunity and prevent malnutrition.
• Douala Corridor Operations: Since the influx of refugees into Chad from Sudan in mid-April, the Douala corridor through the Global Commodity Management Facility (GCMF) in Douala and the hub in Maroua have been involved in transporting food commodities support the Sudanese refugees’ response.
• By the end of June, oil (1,382 mt), pulses (1,000 mt), fortified cereal (134 mt) and sorghum (957 mt) had been dispatched to Chad for scheduled distributions to Sudanese refugees. Additional sorghum (3,500 mt) is being purchased locally in Maroua, while the remaining balance of vegetable oil and fortified cereal (339 mt) in Douala will be dispatched to Chad in July.