Attachments
In Numbers
322,943 people assisted in March 2019
US$ 828,710 cash-based transfers made
4,071 mt of food distributed
US$ 23.66 m six months (April - September 2019) net funding requirements
Operational Updates
- Emergency Relief & Nutrition
Rakhine: A significant increase in internal displacements due to continued armed conflict between the Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) and Arakan Army was reported in northern and central Rakhine State increasing from 6,000 people in February to 20,000 in March. WFP delivered a one-month ration of food to 2,220 newly displaced people in central Rakhine State, with plans to extend support to additional displaced populations based on coordination with other actors meeting current needs, including the Government and ICRC. WFP continued providing emergency relief assistance to 96,050 conflict-affected people from 173 Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu villages in Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships of northern Rakhine State. In addition, WFP reached over 16,300 children under 5 years through nutrition interventions. In central Rakhine, 4,740 pregnant and lactating women (PLWs) and 24,160 children under 5 years were reached with nutrition interventions, and over 128,040 food insecure people received relief assistance.
Kachin: WFP continued to provide emergency food assistance to 44,200 displaced people in 12 townships of Kachin State through cash and e-money transfers via mobile phones. In addition, WFP provided over 250 internally displaced people who returned to their homes with a cash grant to cover essential food needs for three months. Moreover, WFP assisted over 1,100 conflict affected people in Namti Township with rice, complementing an ICRC cash grant to cover other basic food items. This was coordinated by WFP as chair of the Kachin Food Security Sector. Over 1,900 PLW and children under 2 received WFP’s nutrition assistance.
Shan: Ethnic armed clashes reoccurred in Kyethi, Hsipaw and Namtu townships during March, causing new internal displacements. WFP’s emergency relief distributions continued to support 15,200 beneficiaries across northern Shan State as well as from conflict-affected villages in the northernmost part of KoKang Self-Administered Zone.
Over 2,100 PLWs and children under 2 years in Shan State received nutrition assistance.
- School Feeding: As the holiday season has begun for government-run schools, WFP continued to provide nutritional snacks or meals only to 11,500 primary school children from 120 schools in Wa Self-Administered Division, an autonomous region in northeastern part of Myanmar.