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Highlights
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In April, WFP Libya was unable to distribute food as planned due to continued operational challenges, including issues related to packaging of parcels.
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In May, WFP plans to distribute 1,278 mt of food to assist 106,000 people.
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As of July 2016, WFP Libya will be severely limited in its capacity to deliver much-needed food assistance, due to underfunding.
WFP Assistance
Due to conflict and political instability, WFP, along with the entire Libya United Nations Country Team (UNCT), has been operating remotely from Tunisia since 2014.
Through its Emergency Operation (EMOP) 200925, WFP aims to provide food assistance to people who are food insecure as a result of the conflict in Libya. The EMOP is aligned with WFP Strategic Objective 1: to save lives and protect livelihoods in emergencies, by addressing the urgent food and nutrition needs of vulnerable women, men, girls and boys affected by the crisis.
WFP began 2016 planning to reach 70,000 people in January, and aims to scale up to reach 210,000 people each month during the final quarter of 2016. However, due to periodic funding shortfalls, WFP has been unable to reach these goals.
WFP operates primarily through two local cooperating partners (CPs), LibAid and STACO, delivering and distributing food assistance throughout Libya. At times, delivery dates or precise locations have to change due to security factors and pipeline breaks, further complicating distributions.
Each family receives two food parcels, enough to feed five people for one month. The parcels consist of rice, pasta, wheat flour, chickpeas, vegetable oil, sugar and tomato paste. The food entitlements provide 75 percent (1,530 kcal) of daily energy requirements per person per day. The caloric value of the food basket was designed on the assumption that internally displaced people (IDPs) have access to other sources of food.
The Multi-Sectoral Needs Assessment (MSNA), published in September 2015, showed that the conflict has impacted food security and livelihoods, with access to food being affected both as an outcome of reduced purchasing power, as well as decreases in overall availability and price increases.
Both the MSNA and the October 2015 Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO) have identified IDPs as among the most vulnerable populations in Libya.
WFP determines the most affected people in consultation with local crisis committees and partners. Social welfare systems and community networks have eroded since the fighting intensified in July 2014.
WFP works with local and international NGOs and consulting firms to help provide information that will identify and target the most vulnerable households. WFP is monitoring its activities through a contracted third party monitor (TPM), Voluntas.