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In Numbers
163,813 people reached in November 2023
USD 872,077 cash-based transfers (CBT) distributed
USD 13.7 million six months (December 2023 – May 2024) net funding requirements, representing 53 percent of total requirements
430.98 MT of food distributed
Operational Updates
Refugee operation:
• WFP provided food and nutrition assistance to 122,028 people including 110,100 refugees and registered asylum seekers, 10,911 unregistered asylum seekers, and 1,017 Rwandan returnees. This included USD 864,574 of cash-based transfers allowing recipients to purchase food of their choice, and USD 7,503 transferred to schools that host refugees for school feeding contributions. A total of 337 mt of food commodities were distributed as hot meals to asylum seekers and returnees, and under nutrition and school feeding programmes. In addition, 11,638 people were reached through Social and Behaviour Change Communication for Nutrition.
• Since November 2022, insecurity in eastern DRC has been displacing an increasing number of people due to armed violence in the area. By end-November 2023, over 13,000 asylum seekers had arrived in Rwanda, and all of them received food assistance.
Resilient Livelihoods:
• WFP, in collaboration with DUHAMIC-ADRI and Good Neighbors International, organized a study tour for 56 Kinyinya and Gasutamo cooperative members, including 17 women and 39 men. The goal was to enhance members' capacity in the operation and maintenance of irrigation infrastructures, strengthen cooperative functionality and collaboration, conduct market research and establish linkages, apply water regulations, and manage water distribution. Participants expressed satisfaction with the study tour and the knowledge gained.
• WFP conducted an awareness campaign in Karongi, Nyamagabe, and Nyaruguru districts, emphasizing on the importance of asset maintenance, gender promotion, and social cohesion, for the project's lasting impact. This included demonstrations of best practices in agriculture, nutrition, and gender transformation. Sport competitions involving four women and four men teams from Munini, Bisesero, and Nyarusanga cells as well as the Kiziba refugee camp, were organized to promote gender transformation and social cohesion.
School Feeding:
• WFP provided daily nutritious school meals to approximately 30,000 students in 32 schools in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and district authorities. This aims to improve their health and nutrition, while also reducing school absenteeism.
• Cash transfers to WFP-supported schools enabled the provision of fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as animal protein such as dried fish, enhancing the nutritional value of the meal and providing much-needed nutrients to school children. These are served to students three times per week.
Nutrition:
• WFP conducted sessions on Positive Life Skills for HIV Prevention for students in secondary schools in the eastern province, as recent figures reveal that the incidence rate among teenagers in this province is increasing. Eight schools in Kayonza district where the school feeding programme is implemented were selected and eight more from Nyagatare district. The targeted messages reached approximately 10,000 adolescents (5,380 girls and 4,620 boys), and 160 posters were sent to schools.
Smallholder Agricultural Market Support:
• WFP and Inades-Formation Rwanda (IFR) signed a field-level agreement (FLA) to implement WFP-led activities of the UN Joint Programme on Rural Women's Economic Empowerment (JP RWEE). A week-long training session for enumerators and stakeholders was held in late November 2023 to prepare for baseline data collection and subsequent report writing.