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43,000 beneficiaries targeted for Nutrition support
30,000 adolescent girls receive take-home rations as incentive for school attendance
10,000 smallholder farmers targeted for capacity strengthening and market linkages
US$ 132,800 six months (Aug 18 - Jan 19) net funding requirements, representing 1.3% of total 39,300 people assisted in July 2018.
Operational Updates
• In pursuance of capacity strengthening of the Ghana home grown school feeding, WFP Ghana is supporting the establishment of school meals model that epitomizes the requisite standards of home-grown school feeding programme, with all the complementary services and facilities. An orientation of national, regional and district stakeholders has been carried out in the three regions of the north, to be followed by a baseline prior to implementation of the support.
• As part of strengthening capacity and total ownership of government in the implementation of the stunting prevention programme, WFP has conducted training for Ghana Health Service (GHS)
Nutrition and Health Information staff to equip them to fully manage the programme. carry out continuous monthly SCOPE registration of eligible beneficiaries.
• The training conducted for 25 GHS staff from the seven districts also provided practical demonstration on SCOPE registration. Following the training, the seven districts would be provided with logistics to conduct SCOPE registration from August to November 2018.
• GrowNut distribution has been scaled up into all the seven districts.
• The Minister of Food and Agriculture has given WFP Ghana the approval and promise of collaboration to conduct a Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA). This is part of the recommendations of the recently launched Zero Hunger Strategic Review. Bilateral discussions with technical partners are ongoing ahead of commencement in 2019.
• Farmer-based organizations, aggregators and nucleus farmers under the ENVAC have been identified and mapped to selected warehouses to enhance market linkages and traceability.