Attachments
In Numbers
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WFP Tunisia country programme focuses on Government capacity building.
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48 women attended the Participatory Community Planning workshop in June 2023
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US$ 0.2 m six months net funding requirements (July - December 2023)
Operational Updates
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As part of the implementation of the Joint Programme on Accelerating Progress towards Rural Women's Economic Empowerment (JP RWEE) project with FAO,
IFAD and UN Women, in June, WFP conducted a Participatory Community Planning (PCP) workshop in Jendouba Governorate, with 48 rural women attending. Additional project plans were developed to address the economic empowerment needs of the project's target population, which includes 1,700 women members of professional organizations. -
In June 2023, WFP conducted a second round of training on nutrition education guidance for teachers and other stakeholders as part of WFP's nutrition education programme. WFP developed that guidance in 2022 for elementary school educators in Tunisia to promote a healthy, balanced, and diversified diet among school-age children and their families. A total of 25 participants (12 women) were trained on the diet and nutritional needs of school children, and the hygiene standards. They drew up a list of activities to be carried out in the classroom and school clubs to apply the new knowledge and to sensitize students to healthy, diversified, and balanced nutrition. The participants included teachers, inspectors, and employees of the Office des Oeuvres Scolaires (OOESCO), with over 10 schools represented.
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The Tunisian Government and the United Nations in Tunisia announced in June the creation of a MultiPartner Trust Fund (MPTF) for Employment and Youth.
As part of this initiative, in June, WFP Tunisia collaborated with the International Labor Office (ILO) in Tunisia to plan a joint local development project that compounds their efforts in advancing youth employment by improving the socio-economic conditions of rural populations as well as promoting agricultural production in Tunisia. The project plan builds on ILO’s activities under their European Union funded project IPDLI (Pilot Initiative for Integrated Local Development), that aims to create a local economic dynamic that generates decent jobs in five governorates of Tunisia (Jendouba, Nabeul, Gafsa, UN agencies. Twelve people participated, including 6 women, accounting for some nine NGOs.