Attachments
In Numbers
USD 13.5 m six months (February 2024 – July 2024) net funding requirements, representing 80 percent of total requirements
Operational Updates
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In coordination with the Ministry of Education’s Integral School Feeding Programme, WFP delivered 1,268 mt of food to support 176,500 schoolboys and girls in 47 municipalities located in the Dry Corridor. The food distributed in 2,400 schools provides daily meals to children over the first 60 days of the school year.
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WFP also continued working on rehabilitating the infrastructure of three schools that host 520 students from some of the communities living in the most vulnerable conditions on the Pacific Coast of Nicaragua. These rehabilitation works are expected to be concluded by March 2024, providing schoolchildren with improved conditions for their education.
Monitoring
- In January, WFP continued to engage in data collection and processing to inform operational decision making. This included data used for evaluative purposes, corporate reporting, and evidence-building.
Challenges
- El Niño phenomenon has exacerbated an already fragile situation in the Dry Corridor of Nicaragua. This region is home to 37 percent of the Nicaraguan rural population and according to national estimates, around 60 percent of them live in conditions of extreme poverty. With El Niño and other crisis that have recently affected the country, food security among these extremely vulnerable populations is threatened. This creates additional pressures to continue WFP work in a context of limited funding.