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In Numbers
434,400 pregnant and breastfeeding women and children received specialized nutritious foods and health and nutrition services through the Government’s Benazir Nashonuma Programme
20,500 primary schoolchildren received cooked meals
30,600 people received cash assistance through their participation in climate resilience and livelihoods support initiatives
28,800 moderately malnourished pregnant and breastfeeding women and children received specialized nutritious food under TSFP programme
Operational Updates
Nutrition
- WFP supports the implementation of the Benazir Nashonuma Programme (BNP) through 542 facilitation centres in 157 districts. In May, 434,400 women and children received 38 million sachets of specialized nutritious food, along with health services and nutrition education. Since the start of the programme in 2020, over 3.2 million pregnant and breastfeeding women and young children have been supported through this programme.
- Under the Community Management of Acute Malnutrition component of the BNP, 270,500 malnourished pregnant and breastfeeding women and young children have been treated in partnership with UNICEF and World Health Organization.
- Leveraging the BNP’s network of facilitation centres, the adolescent girls' nutrition programme is piloted in six districts, with WFP providing weekly iron folic acid supplementation and awareness messages. In May, 22,400 girls received assistance, bringing the total number of enrolled adolescent girls to 88,500, with 4,400 who have graduated.
- Over 19,500 women and 9,300 malnourished children were provided with supplementary nutritious food through the Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programme in Quetta, Balochistan. The programme has also been initiated in Jamshoro, Sindh to support 44,777 malnourished children aged 6-59 months and women.
School-Based Programmes
- Around 20,500 schoolchildren received school meals under a 2-year programme (which started in June 2024) in district Quetta, Balochistan province, implemented by WFP in collaboration with the Government. WFP also continues to support 10,400 adolescent girls with conditional cash stipends in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.