Attachments
In Numbers
331,000 people assisted
USD 1.7 million cash-based transfers provided
914 mt of food assistance
Operational Updates
- In July, WFP assisted 331,400 individuals representing 38 percent of the plan for 2023. The assisted beneficiaries included drought-affected communities through cash assistance, malnourished women and children, recipients of take-home rations and beneficiaries from resilience project.
Relief
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In July, in-kind assistance under relief remained on hold due to temporary suspension of food assistance since late April following reports of diversion of food supplies in Tigray. This pause was introduced to enhance oversight and implement thorough measures and establish stringent control mechanisms and checkpoints, guaranteeing that the intended recipients of humanitarian food aid indeed receive the assistance they require.
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WFP re-designed standard operating procedures for relief operations to improve vulnerability-based targeting, digital beneficiary registration and general food distribution.
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On 31 July, WFP started testing food assistance distribution at seven food distribution points in four woredas of Tigray.
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In the Somali region, WFP provided cash assistance to internally displaced people and people affected by drought, reaching 51,900 people with USD 1.4 million.
Nutrition
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In the Somali region, WFP provided 711 mt of specialized nutritious foods for the treatment of Moderate Acute Malnutrition to 135,400 children under the age of five as well as pregnant and breast-feeding women and girls.
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Moreover, due to funding shortfall, WFP performed a re-prioritization exercise selecting 270 woredas out of 420 with the highest prevalence of food and nutrition insecurity, targeting 1.6 million women and children.
Support to Refugees
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Due to the continued temporary suspension of food aid, there was no food assistance in the 28 refugee camps and sites across Ethiopia in July. WFP re-designed a standard operating procedure that outlines segregation of duties between WFP, UNHCR and Refugee and Returnees Service (RRS). In addition, WFP developed a resumption plan to be implemented along with measures of the assurance project.
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WFP provided 201,400 mt of specialized nutritional food to 67,400 beneficiaries across all camps in Ethiopia as a measure to prevent and treat malnutrition in children under two and five, as well as pregnant and breast-feeding women.
School Meals
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In July, schools in Ethiopia were on holiday, therefore WFP’s school meals programme did not conduct regular school meal distributions.
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WFP reached 23,500 school children in Afar and Oromia regions with 33,700 mt of take-home rations.
Fresh Food Vouchers and SBCC
- The Fresh Food Vouchers (FFV) programme supports pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls, as well as children under the age of two, improve their dietary diversity through access to fresh food and social behavioral change communication. In July, WFP reached 28,700 women and children with USD 383,000 worth of fresh food vouchers in the Somali region. WFP reached 8,400 people with social behavioral change communication activities in Afar and Amhara regions.