Summary of WFP assistance:
In July 2015, WFP launched a two-year Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO), aiming to assist 5.2 million people; between July and December 2015, WFP intends to reach nearly 3.5 million people. Following longstanding efforts to bring improved food security to vulnerable communities facing complex emergencies, the new PRRO supports a gradual shift from relief operations to recovery and resilience activities.
The PRRO maintains a robust relief component (60 percent) for new and protracted displaced populations facing continued food insecurity and malnutrition complemented by an early recovery portfolio (40 percent). Relief activities include: (i) general food distributions targeting people who have recently been displaced by conflict or natural disaster, the most vulnerable refugees and long time internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees and severely food insecure resident communities, (ii) targeted supplementary feeding (TSF) to treat moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) in children aged 6–59 months and pregnant or nursing women, and (iii) Emergency Blanket Supplementary Feeding Programme (eBSFP) to prevent acute malnutrition in emergencies where affected populations lack immediate access to prevention or treatment services. Recovery activities consists of: (i) food assistance for assets or training (FFA/FFT) providing employment opportunities in creating or rehabilitating community infrastructure, skills training, or income generating activities to households affected by seasonal vulnerability; (ii) nutrition interventions (food based prevention of MAM, home fortification with micronutrient powder (MNP), and social and behaviour change communication) delivered through a community based integrated nutrition programme in areas where wasting is persistently high; and (iii) the school feeding programme which provides daily cooked meals fortified with MNP to address short-term hunger while improving children’s micronutrient status, learning ability and access to education. WFP also provides take-home rations to increase girls’ attendance in school and is preparing to pilot a home-grown school feeding (HGSF) initiative, alongside the Government as part of a handover strategy. Additional activities implemented through trust funds include the Safe Access to Fuel and Energy (SAFE) in Darfur, the Joint Resilience Programme with FAO and UNICEF in Kassala, and the MNP home fortification and stunting reduction pilot in Red Sea State and North Darfur.
WFP continues efforts to better target food assistance to IDPs based on a vulnerability analysis exercise covering 50 camps hosting some 1.4 million IDPs. The exercise involves data collection to assess the needs of each individual household and categorising IDPs into four vulnerability groups (high, medium, low and none). Thus far, WFP has begun implementing the resultant changes in targeting in 18 camps, covering 428,000 IDPs. This has led to phasing 98,700 IDPs out of general food assistance and shifting 47,000 IDPs to seasonal support/livelihood activities.
In line with WFP Strategic Objectives 1 and 2, MDGs 1 to 5 and pillars 1, 2 and 4 of the Zero Hunger Challenge, the PRRO supports implementation of the Government’s humanitarian and development policies and priorities and the 2015 Humanitarian Strategic Response Plan. The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service continues to support and facilitate staff movement for about 100 humanitarian organisations, donor communities, embassies and government counterparts who rely on the WFP managed air service to access over 40 weekly locations in Sudan.