Summary of WFP assistance: In July 2015, WFP Sudan launched a two-year Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO, 2015-2017), valued at USD 693 million and aiming to reach 5.2 million people in total. Between July and December 2015, WFP intended to reach nearly 3.5 million beneficiaries. Following long-standing efforts to bring improved food security to vulnerable communities in Sudan 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 lactating 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 micro-nutrient powder (MNP), and social and behavior change communication) delivered through 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 entitlements to increase girls’ attendance in school and preparing to pilot a home-grown school feeding (HGSF) initiative, alongside the Government as part of a hand-over strategy.
Additional activities implemented through trusts 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 its efforts to better target food assistance to IDPs based on vulnerability rather than IDP status, in a vulnerability analysis exercise covering 50 camps with a caseload of some 1.4 million IDPs. The exercise involves collecting data to assess the needs of each individual household and categorize IDPs into four vulnerability groups (high, medium, low and none). Thus far, WFP has begun implementing changes based on this analysis 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 organizations, donor communities, embassies and government counterparts who rely on the WFP-managed air service to access over 40 weekly locations in Sudan