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In numbers
11,200 mt of food assistance distributed
USD 4 m cash based transfers made
USD 64 m six months (March-August 2018) shortfall for the Nigeria component of EMOP 200777, a pipeline break is anticipated in June.
1.2 m people assisted in February 2018
Operational Updates
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In February, both directly and through partnerships, WFP provided food and nutrition assistance to 1.2 million people (95 percent of the plan) across Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states. Inkind distributions amount to 68 percent of the intervention while cash-based transfers (CBT) amount to 32 percent.
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820,000 beneficiaries (91 percent of the plan) -most of them internally displaced in camps or in host communities - benefited from food distributions, while in areas with functioning markets 355,000 people (98 percent of the plan) were assisted with cash or vouchers. In terms of food assistance, CBT were distributed to 32 percent of the beneficiaries and in-kind to 68 percent.
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WFP provided preventative nutrition assistance to 158,000 children aged 6-23 months (87 percent of planned) and 98,000 pregnant and lactating women (PLW) (71 percent of planned) through in-kind or cash transfers. These vulnerable children and women received specialised nutritious foods, screening for malnutrition, and health, nutrition and WASH messages through WFP's blanket supplementary feeding programme.
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The number of retailers providing food through e-vouchers in 2017 increased from 29 to 48. This number is planned to increase to 80 by the end of the first quarter of 2018. While at the beginning of 2017, only 32 fixed agents were providing cash through mobile money, by the end of the year it increased to 131. Fixed agents run shops where beneficiaries can cash out when it is more convenient, whereas mobile agents cash out only on specific days and time in one specific site. In 2018, livelihood interventions will also use CBT.