Attachments
In Numbers
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4,240 people assisted in June
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52.2 mt of food distributed
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Six-Month Net Funding Requirements (July – December 2023): US$1.06 million
Operational Updates
School Feeding Programme
• On 23 June, WFP and the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Tajikistan handed over 1,500 mt of fortified wheat flour and 70 mt of yellow split peas to the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tajikistan. The food will be used in the implementation of the School Feeding Programme in the Districts of the Republican Subordination, Khatlon Region, and Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO).
• WFP began its implementation of Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) initiative in Tajikistan in June.
The project will directly benefit 60 producer farmers and six schools in Bobojon Ghafurov, Spitamen,
Kulob, Vose, Rasht and Tojikobod districts of the country. HGSF is a school feeding model designed to provide children in schools with safe, diverse, and nutritious food locally sourced from smallholder farmers.
Nutrition
• WFP and the regional health departments of Khatlon and Sughd regions have agreed to extend the Memorandum of Understanding on the implementation of the Prevention and Treatment of Moderate Acute Malnutrition Programme for one more year. With an additional 30 mt of specialized nutritious food purchased by WFP this summer, the programme will continue to be implemented through more than 260 primary healthcare centres in Jaloliddini Balkhi, Dusti, Kulob and Shahritus districts of Khatlon Region and Ayni District of Sughd Region.
In the first six months of 2023, the programme reached over 2,600 beneficiaries across the target districts.
Climate Change and Adaptation
• In June, WFP organized a training of trainers (ToT) workshop for national stakeholders on Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA). The workshop reflected the learnings from the PICSA workshops conducted by the project in previous years and developed plans for the next round of the PICSA workshops in the remaining seven districts covered by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) project.
• Under the Green Climate Fund (GCF) project, WFP is supporting construction and rehabilitation of 28 community assets including 15 drinking water systems, rehabilitation of 10 irrigation canals (80.2 km) and three storage structures. In June, the physical progress of the assets is more than 60 percent. By providing labour support in the construction and rehabilitation of community assets, about 2,627 households will receive an average of US$50 through cash-based transfers.
Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR)
• In June, WFP started the distribution of food assistance to 165,000 vulnerable people as part of the emergency programme, through a US$10 million award from USAID. The assistance aims to reach vulnerable households in response to rising food insecurity in Tajikistan. About 4,000 people were assisted in the towns of Istiqlol (Sughd Region), Roghun (Districts of the Republican Subordination), and Rushon District (GBAO). As this is the first high-scale emergency programme organized in the country in over 20 years, these first distributions served as a pilot to contribute to the capacity strengthening of local partners.
Distributions in other districts are expected to start by mid-July. The USAID funding will enable WFP to support vulnerable communities to better meet their food needs and strengthen government capacity to address the impacts of concurring shocks. Through this project, beneficiaries will receive unconditional food assistance, along with livelihoods support.
Humanitarian Operations Support for Afghanistan
• During the reporting period, WFP dispatched about 3,700 mt of food commodities to Afghanistan and received 1,600 mt of food commodities. The balance will be dispatched to Afghanistan in due course. The WFP-managed UN Humanitarian Air Service undertook nine international passenger flights between Dushanbe and various airports in Afghanistan and 40 passengers benefited from the flights