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Highlights
• The WFP Djibouti Transitional Interim Country Strategic Plan (I-ICSP) for 2018 to 2019 was approved in September 2017, to take effect on 1 January 2018.
• WFP’s ability to maintain assistance to refugees, asylum seekers and the vulnerable local populations in drought-affected and urban areas continues to be undermined by limited funding.
Operational Updates
• Djibouti is hosting approximately 26,331 refugees from Somalia, Yemen, Eritrea and Ethiopia, of which 21,119 reside in camps. WFP continues to provide food assistance to all registered refugees and asylum seekers living in Ali Addeh, Holl Holl and Markazi camps, in the form of general distributions, nutrition interventions and take home rations for school girls to encourage school attendance. The general distributions include a cash transfer component to diversify refugees’ diet, increase their purchasing power and boost the local markets.
• In Jan 2018, WFP provided food assistance to a total of 54,103 people, including refugees, asylum seekers, vulnerable local households and school children in the rural and urban areas. WFP provides food assistance to rural and urban food insecure households affected by drought in the form of general rations. Nutrition interventions are ongoing for the prevention and treatment of moderate acute malnutrition and for people living with HIV/AIDS and those on tuberculosis treatment.
• According to FEWSNET, the cumulative performance of Xays/Daada rains (October to February) was slightly below-average, but together with favorable 2016 Karan/Karma rainfall, has contributed to marked improvements of livestock ownership across Djibouti, except in Dikhil region; improving household incomes and food and milk access. As a result, the majority of the poor households are expected to remain in Stressed (IPC Phase 2) through May 2017, ahead of the lean season.