WFP Niger Country Brief, March 2021
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USD 11.8 m of cash-based transfers made
USD 105.4 m six months (April – September 2021) net funding requirements.
923,162 people assisted in January 2021
Strategic Updates
• WFP continues to work on scaling-up its resilience building activities, in partnership with the Government, NGOs and other UN agencies. On 17 March, a USAID mission visited the village Garin Kaka site, where WFP and CARE/Hamzari are jointly implementing resilience building activities in the framework of the Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced (RISE II) partnership. On 18-21 March, a BMZ mission visited joint WFP-UNICEF resilience sites, as well as the food fortification and transformations units in Maradi. On 30 March, a joint WFP, GRET and MISOLA mission visited the food fortification units in Maradi linked to INTPA-funded project Response a la Crise Alimentaire au Centre Sahel (CRIALCES) project, with the objective of presenting the project to the regional, de