Attachments
Highlights
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In collaboration with the Ministry of Social Solidarity and Inclusion (MSSI), WFP supported nutritional food assistance to pregnant and lactating women in six municipalities. The assistance was made possible through the contribution from the Embassy of Japan. To promote healthy and nutritious eating for nutritional food assistance, WFP provided Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) materials. WFP produced maps for six municipalities and provided beneficiary registration training for MSSI.
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From late November to early December, WFP, together with the Food and Agriculture Organization, completed training, survey, and analysis of acute Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) with 42 food security focal points from the National Council for Food Security, Sovereignty and Nutrition in Timor-Leste (KONSSANTIL) members, the national Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement secretariat, and the global IPC mission, and non-governmental organizations. The IPC analysis will inform decision makers to focus objectives on the prevention, mitigation, or decreasing of severe food insecurity in the country.
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WFP held a courtesy meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and provided a thank you letter from the WFP Executive Director for the approval of WFP Country Strategic Plan 2023-2025.
Situation Updates
- Timor-Leste registered an additional 54 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in December. 23,397 cases were confirmed since March 2020. As of the end of December, 79.9 percent of the population aged 12 years and above were fully vaccinated. All WFP Timor-Leste’s staff are fully vaccinated.
Operational Updates
Nutrition
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WFP provided technical support to the President’s Office in launching the national nutrition intervention programme (targeted supplementary feeding programme) for malnourished pregnant and lactating women and children under 7, which was first launched in Dili to be expanded nationwide.
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WFP provided technical support to the Ministry of Health (MoH) in conducting cooking demonstrations of Super Cereal and shared IEC materials at the National Festival of promoting local products and handicrafts. The cooking demonstrations and WFP’s support aimed to promote healthy and nutritious eating and provide critical information on nutritional assistance with MoH to improve the nutritional status of children and women in reproductive age.
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WFP provided an inflation-adjusted estimate of a nutritious diet to the Cost of Diet from 2019 (Fill the Nutrition Gap 2019). The findings indicated that the cost of energy-only diet has increased by 17 percent and that of a nutritious diet has increased by 20 percent compared to 2019 estimates, further challenging the affordability of a nutritious diet in the country.