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In Numbers
USD 17,388 cash-based transfers distributed
USD 35.4 million six-month net funding requirements (August 2024 – January 2025)
27,112 people assisted. In July 2024
Operational Updates
WFP assisted 27,112 people, including 8,932 individuals through crisis response cash-based transfers, 3,114 people through nutrition improvement interventions, 14,973 individuals through smallholder support and resilience interventions and 93 through other capacity strengthening activities.
Crisis response/refugees
Food assistance for refugees: WFP continued to provide cash-based transfers to refugees and asylum seekers at the Mantapala refugee settlement. In July, the total population of refugees assisted was 8,932 (4,493 female and 4,439 male).
Strengthened Livelihoods and Building Self-Reliance (SLABS) Project: WFP hosted a delegation from the USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance to appreciate the progress made in the implementation of the SLABS project in Mantapala refugee settlement. The team assessed the progress of the nutrition integration programmes and visited the seed bank, where smallholder farmers are depositing beans and groundnuts for safekeeping and replanting in the next farming season.
Crisis response/drought
Overview: To respond to the El Nino induced drought, WFP plans to address immediate food and nutrition needs by providing food assistance (in-kind food and cash-based transfers) to 1.2 million people in the 23 worst-affected and hard-to-reach districts, providing logistical and humanitarian coordination support to the government, and conducting early recovery interventions.
Logistical support: WFP supported the Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit (DMMU) to transport maize from the Food Reserve Agency to hard-to-reach, droughtaffected districts. WFP transported 11,016 mt of maize of the planned total of 12,938 mt.
Food assistance: WFP conducted community sensitization in Shikongo and Sioma districts of Western province in preparation for cash-based transfers in August. This included food assistance entitlements, utilisation and preferences; fraud and diversion; and protection and accountability.