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In Numbers
390 MT of food distributed
USD 889,204 cash-based transfers (CBT) distributed
USD 21 million six months (Aug 2023–Jan 2024) net funding required representing 64 percent of total requirements
242,657 people assisted in July 2023
Operational Updates
Refugee operations:
• WFP is facing a funding gap and urgently requires USD 11.5 million to continue cash-based transfers, food and nutrition assistance to camp-based refugees, asylum seekers and returnees. If no new funding is received, WFP will be forced to halt these operations from October 2023, leaving affected populations short of their nutritional requirements.
• In July, WFP provided food and nutrition assistance to 124,044 people, including 104,839 refugees, 10,499 asylum seekers, 8,456 host community children, and 250 Rwandan returnees. This included USD 886,315 of cash-based transfers (CBT), allowing eligible refugees to purchase food of their choice, and cash to schools for the parent contribution. Refugee and host community children attending the same schools in Kiziba and Mahama ECD received school meals.
• Through social and behavior change communication activities to promote positive health and nutrition behaviors, WFP through Plan International provided goats to community health workers from villages around the Kiziba refugee camp as an incentive, recognition, and additional support for their efforts in promoting nutrition and health-related messages within the host community.
• Since November 2022, insecurity in eastern DRC has been displacing an increasing number of people due to armed violence in the area. By end-July 2023, 10,478 asylum seekers had arrived in Rwanda from DRC. In total 10,499 asylum seekers were assisted in July including 10,478 asylum seekers from DRC and 21 Burundians accommodated in Nyanza.