Attachments
Highlights
• WFP Executive Board approved WFP Timor-Leste Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2023-2025.
• WFP supported visits of the Global Coordinator of the Scaling-up Nutrition (SUN) Movement and UN Assistant Secretary-General, Ms. Gerda Verburg, with the national SUN focal points under the Prime Minister’s Office, Mr. Filipe da Costa and Ms. Dirce Maria Soares.
During the visit, WFP provided technical support for meetings, advocacy, and talk shows with key government members, civil society organizations, and broadcasting stations to promote national discussion on the nutritional status of children, pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, adolescents, and actions to reduce malnutrition.
• On 4 November, WFP signed a tripartite Cooperation Agreement with the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS) and the Ministry of State Administration (MSA) for a three-year collaboration. This will strengthen the national school feeding programme by 1) introducing fortified rice to school meals and home-grown school feeding, 2) ensuring healthy and nutritious eating, and 3) monitoring and evaluation.
• WFP, together with Food and Agriculture Organization, conducted 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 SUN Movement Secretariat, and NGOs.
The IPC analysis will inform key decision-makers to focus on short-term objectives to prevent, mitigate, or decrease severe food insecurity in the country.
• WFP facilitated a two-day workshop for the Ministry of Solidarity and Social Inclusion (MSSI) officials to provide information on distribution, logistics, documentation, and reporting to prepare for food assistance to the most vulnerable population in six municipalities (Baucau, Covalima, Dili, Ermera, Manatuto, and Manufahi).
Situation Updates
• Timor-Leste registered an additional 41 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in November. 23,184 cases were confirmed since March 2020. As of the end of November, 79.5 percent of the population aged 12 years and above were fully vaccinated. All WFP Timor-Leste Country Office staff are fully vaccinated.
Operational Updates
Nutrition
• WFP initiated a six-month advertising campaign on GMNTV, a local TV station, with videos that promote targeted supplementary feeding (Super Cereal), food fortification, and school feeding activities. rice fortification in Timor-Leste, as a part of a multicountry study with Regional Bureau in Bangkok.