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In Numbers
USD 26.1 million six-month (August 2023 – January 2024) net funding requirements
21,200 metric tons of food commodities procured since January 2023
207,300 refugees and asylum seekers in camps supported with food assistance
Operational Updates
Nutrition: The World Food Programme (WFP) signed a Joint Action Plan with the Benjamin Mkapa Foundation (BMF) for a nutrition programme and women’s economic empowerment in Zanzibar. Under this partnership, BMF and WFP will work together to strengthen social, and behaviour change communication and roll out community-led approaches to address malnutrition in Zanzibar. BMF will also conduct a comprehensive analysis of local marketing options to enable women seaweed farmers to increase income.
WFP hosted a mission from its African Union Global Office to provide technical support for the Cost of Hunger in Africa (COHA) study. The COHA study will estimate the social and economic impact of child undernutrition in Tanzania focusing on health, education, and labour/productive sectors. The study's findings will provide evidence to inform policy dialogue and highlight the importance of preventing child undernutrition.
School Meals: Through the South-South and Triangular Cooperation Opportunity Fund, WFP received funding to support an off-grid rural school to access clean energy for school feeding and education. WFP has installed a solar system to power lighting in Kigadye Primary School, Kasulu District which has enabled 2,300 pre-primary and primary school children including 800 evening adult learners to access light for education. The solar system is also powering a borehole to provide clean water for drinking, sanitary purposes, cooking and irrigation for a school garden enabling year-round supply of food for school feeding.
Refugee Operation: WFP distributed the ration at 50 percent of the daily kilocalorie requirement to refugees and asylum seekers hosted in Nduta and Nyarugusu camps in north-west Tanzania. Data collection for the annual community household survey, which assesses the food security situation, was completed in both camps. WFP is conducting a study on cooking energy access and use among the refugees and the host community in Kigoma. Conducted by the University of Dar es Salaam, the study will shed light on challenges faced by refugees and host communities related to cooking and propose solutions on how these can be addressed.