Attachments
In Numbers
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USD 800,991 cash-based transfers made*
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USD 2 m six months (July-December 2023) net funding requirements, representing 98 percent of total
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31,638 people assisted* in JUNE 2023
*Preliminary figures
Operational Updates
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WFP with the support of the European Commission (DG-ECHO) works closely with the Government to strengthen the country’s national and local disaster management systems. On 1 June, WFP arranged a participatory workshop to revise protocols for hydrometeorological events forecasting and early warning systems. Key public institutions and partners such as the US Agency for International Development, Plan International, and World Vision actively participated.
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On 19 and 20 June, WFP facilitated a South-South and Triangular Cooperation meeting between Cuba and the Dominican Republic Governments to strengthen adaptive social protection schemes. High-level officers and experts from Cuban institutions visited the Dominican Republic’s national social protection program Superate (Unique Beneficiary System and Social Subsidy Administrator). They learned and exchanged about tools and practices of beneficiary and supply chain management in the context of cash-based transfer (CBT) and policy interventions for food and nutrition security such as rice fortification.
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On 21 June, WFP Executive Director, Cindy McCain, Regional Director for Latin America and Caribbean Lola Castro, and Country Director for the Dominican Republic Gabriela Alvarado, met with the Dominican Republic Vice President,
Raquel Peña. Vice President Peña recognized WFP’s contribution to strengthening Government’s capacities for nutritional food security and climate resilience. Mutual interest was reaffirmed in continuing collaboration with WFP’s expertise and innovative mechanisms in shock-responsive social protection, anticipatory actions, emergency preparedness and logistics corridor.