Attachments
Highlights
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WFP secured an allocation of $1.1m from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to provide essential food to 18,000 people including pregnant and breastfeeding women as part of a $2 million emergency grant in response to El Niño impacts in Timor-Leste.
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WFP supported the production of fortified rice and prepositioning of 16.5 metric tonnes (mt) of this rice in four municipalities ready for the Civil Protection Authority’s (CPA) emergency response.
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WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain met with the President of Timor-Leste, José Ramos-Horta, to discuss the critical role social protection plays in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Operational Updates
Nutrition
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WFP provided technical inputs to the Unit of Mission to Combat Stunting’s (UNMICS) 2024 -2030 Strategic Plan and facilitated a joint annual assessment technical meeting with UNMICS, attended by the Vice Prime Minister, health, agriculture and National Logistics Center government representatives and UN agencies, to prepare for the forthcoming Scaling Up Nutrition movement reporting workshop.
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WFP supported the production of fortified rice (FR) and the prepositioning of 16.5 mt of this FR in Aileu, Baucau, Lautem and Viqueque, ready for the CPA to respond to emergency needs.
Social Protection / School Feeding
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WFP supported the printing and publishing of 140 school feeding menu books and 1,300 posters from Agora Food Studio which will be distributed to schools and relevant entities in February in conjunction with the Ministry of Education and Ministry of State Administration.
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WFP and representatives from the Ministry of Social Solidarity and Inclusion discussed approaches to targeted nutrition sensitive social protection through the ‘Bolsa da Mae’ conditional, including provision of nutritious food for pregnant and breast-feeding women and children under two, and agreed to establish a technical working group.
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WFP facilitated inter-ministerial co-ordination between the Ministry of Education and Ministry of State Administration to progress implementation of rice fortification in three municipalities for the National School Feeding Programme (SFP) supported by KOICA and conducted municipal-level engagement on the use of fortified rice in the SFP.