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State of Palestine Annual Country Report 2022 - Country Strategic Plan 2018 - 2023

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Overview

Palestine continues to face a complex protection and humanitarian crisis due to prolonged occupation, internal political divisions, and recurrent conflict. In 2022, the situation was exacerbated by heightened conflict, economic stagnation, rising food and fuel prices impacted by the conflict in Ukraine, and the lingering effects of COVID-19.
With the rise in food prices significantly reducing purchasing power, 1.8 million Palestinians are now food-insecure.
In 2022, WFP assisted 51 percent of non-refugee food-insecure individuals in Palestine.
In response, WFP delivered a comprehensive assistance package to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2 (Zero Hunger), 1 (No Poverty), 5 (Gender Equality), and 17 (Partnerships for the Goals) under the 2018-2023 Palestine CSP.
Overall, WFP successfully reached 380,593 people across all activities. Women and girls represented almost half of those assisted by WFP. The assistance was largely cash-based transfers that provide food assistance to individuals and support the local economy. In line with WFP’s commitment to promoting local production, 61 percent of food items were purchased locally, at a value of USD 3.9 million.
In the fifth year of the Country Strategic Plan 2018-2023 (CSP), WFP reached 87 percent of the planned number of beneficiaries. Despite funding constraints, WFP was able to maintain consistent monthly assistance to the most vulnerable and food-insecure individuals. However, WFP was unable to increase the value of cash transfers distributed, resulting in a decrease in the food consumption score for these individuals. WFP’s monitoring showed a decline in acceptable food consumption from 2021, particularly affecting people in Gaza and women-headed households.
WFP ensures that assistance is delivered in a dignified, safe manner by sensitizing shop owners and conducting quality standard checks. To protect those in hard-to-reach areas, such as rural communities in Gaza and Bedouin communities in the West Bank, WFP provides in-kind food baskets tailored to meet their food needs.
In 2022, WFP through its dual mandate in humanitarian and development continued providing life-saving food assistance to food-insecure non-refugee Palestinians and expanded on its role as a key development actor, contributing to the development-peace nexus. Through expanding partnerships with national institutions, non-governmental organizations, United Nations agencies, and donor governments, WFP worked to ensure strategic alignment and operational efficiency, and enable wider reach for humanitarian and development actors in Palestine. A key priority was enhancing food security, ensuring the inclusivity and shock-responsiveness of national systems, and developing scalable, sustainable solutions to protect vulnerable agricultural production systems, with a focus on interventions that communities identified as a priority, including those with disabilities.
WFP invested in providing smart climate-resilient agricultural assets such as solar panels, tools and greenhouses to households and smallholder farmers, equipping them with training to develop skills to adapt their livelihoods to climate shocks. Some of the families that received these assets reported doubling their income from agricultural production this year.
To promote women’s economic empowerment and increase employment opportunities, WFP prioritised women-headed households in livelihood interventions in both training and asset-building activities. This included unconventional activities such as fishing and carpentry. WFP challenged gender norms by ensuring women’s participation in vocational training in unconventional fields, such as fishing and carpentry. WFP also supported local institutions that target low-income women, survivors of domestic violence, and people with disabilities, paving the way for them to find employment and build self-sufficiency.
Consistent with WFP’s commitment to the achievement of SDG 17, WFP continued to be the key enabler for the humanitarian response across sectors in Palestine. WFP transferred over USD 120 million of humanitarian assistance that reached over 700,000 Palestinians on behalf of partners. WFP also continued providing logistical coordination and the inter-agency community feedback mechanism to partners. WFP’s next five-year CSP (2023 - 2028) will build on all its achievements, evaluations, and lessons learned in response to high food insecurity