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In Numbers
828,110 people assisted
3,681 mt food distributed
US$3.15 million provided in cash-based transfers
US$14.7 million funding requirements (Nov-Apr 2024)
Operational Updates
• Despite funding constraints leading to the scale-down of its flood response, WFP provided 2,012 mt of food and nutrition assistance and US$2.9 million in cashbased transfers (CBT) to half a million flood-affected people. WFP support benefitted 368,191 people in Sindh, 46,215 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and 82,686 in Balochistan provinces.
• To strengthen community resilience and self-reliance in vulnerable areas, WFP continued its flood recovery activities, providing 1.1. million people with 8,615 mt of food and US$18 million in cash support for affected households in Balochistan, KP, Punjab and Sindh provinces.
• From April to October 2023, more than 150,000 vulnerable people and government officials participated in WFP resilience-building activities, including training, early warning system improvements and disaster risk reduction tools.
• WFP provided nutrition support through the community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) programme to 17,737 pregnant and breastfeeding women and 23,523 children under the age of 5 years in 12 districts of Sindh and Balochistan provinces. WFP also provided support through targeted supplementary feeding programmes (TSFP) to 124,071 children. With its current resources, WFP is prepared to support an additional 46,000 vulnerable people through February 2024.
• WFP's CMAM Surge Programme improved healthcare services for more than 3,299 children under the age of 5 years and 2,190 pregnant and breastfeeding women by strengthening provincial and district health authorities' capacity to manage seasonal malnutrition surges. In Sindh province, WFP trained 343 healthcare and community workers. The CMAM Surge benefitted more than 20,600 women, 26,100 children and 356 healthcare and community workers.
• WFP’s blanket supplementary feeding programme (BSFP) in Sindh province has assisted 64,074 people since its inception. In October, it provided support to 5,108 pregnant and breastfeeding women and 12,600 children aged 6-24 months.
• WFP expanded support to Karachi East district (Sindh province) via three newly established facilitation centres (FCs) through the Benazir Nashonuma Programme (BNP), Pakistan’s nationwide stunting prevention programme. The BNP now serves 158 districts through 511 FCs, including 34 mobile units.