Attachments
In Numbers
USD 1 m six months (Dec. 2024 – May. 2025) net funding requirements, representing 28 percent of total.
Operational Updates
WFP led the final meeting of the year of the Adaptative Social Protection Interinstitutional working group, during which significant progress was made towards strengthening the national system. Under WFP’s leadership, the working group carried out a thorough review and agreed on incorporating crucial elements into the World Bank updated version of the technical guide for the activation of the emergency subsidy. This decision was based on the results of a workshop organized by WFP, where lessons learnt from previous activations and on the capacity of its implementors were analyzed – that is the National Single Beneficiary System (SIUBEN), the Administrator of Social Subsidies (ADESS), and Súperate. In addition, Expertise France presented the Comprehensive Adaptative Social Protection Strategy, which was reviewed to consider the changing context and the transversal integration of the gender perspective. WFP strongly believes in the coordination of efforts to reduce duplication, build complementarity and amplify the impacts of initiatives aiming at building the resilience of the most vulnerable to safeguard their wellbeing in time of adversity.
WFP reaffirmed its commitment “to leave no one behind” through a set of activities consisting in training the Social Protection System staff members to offer quality service to people with HIV, and in facilitating the design of the Operational Plan for Implementing the Strategy for Inclusion of People Living with HIV (PWH) in the Social Protection System of the Dominican Republic. People living with HIV face emotional distress resulting from discrimination. Inadequate services may result in further marginalization and worsened health conditions. WFP supported the organization of a training in coordination with the National Council for HIV and AIDS (CONAVIHSIDA) and UNDP, aiming at ensuring that social protection system’s staff empathetically guide PVIH through available services, promoting equitable access. In addition, WFP organized a workshop to design the operational plan aiming at facilitating the effective inclusion of PWH in the country's social protection programs.
WFP supported the validation of a guideline focused on ensuring proper nutrition of affected individuals during times of emergency. This key milestone will contribute to ensuring a coordinated and effective food distribution at all stages of an emergency, without compromising the health and well- being of vulnerable populations. This event was led by the Ministry of Public Health and involved technicians from various institutions, including the National Institute for Student Welfare (INABIE), Supérate, the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), UNICEF, and FAO.