Highlights
Last month, WFP reached roughly 1.5 million people with food & nutrition assistance in South Sudan.
General food distributions and Food Assistance for Assets programmes help households meet food needs through lean season.
WFP’s Activities
In April, WFP and its Cooperating Partners reached around 1.5 million people with nearly 20,000mt of food and nutrition assistance across South Sudan. So far this year, WFP South Sudan has assisted more than 2 million food insecure and undernourished beneficiaries.
An early and widespread onset to the lean season has been driven by poor market supply, high prices, and low harvests in some areas, with the most significant deteriorations in the Greater Bahr el Ghazal and Equatoria regions. In addition to implementing general food distributions targeting the most affected households, WFP is working directly with communities through its Food Assistance for Assets programme which provides food assistance in exchange for participation in community led asset creation activities.