The People’s March was organised to focus attention and demand action on critical health issues including HIV, Aids, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. However, the march was abruptly cancelled “with no notice or justification”. The ban was accompanied by disturbing reports of activists being detai.
WFP Eswatini Country Brief, February 2021
Format
US$ 757,305 cash-based transfers made in February 2021
US$ 5.4 million six-month (April–September 2021) net funding requirements
82,548 people assisted with cash-based transfers in February 2021
Operational Updates
• WFP provides social safety nets for 55,000 orphans and vulnerable children under 5 years at the 1,700 Neighbourhood Care Points (NCPs) in Eswatini through access to food and basic social services. Due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and associated containment measures, food distributions at the NCPs have been suspended as of February 2021. WFP will resume food distributions in March.
• WFP, together with the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), Save the Children and ADRA, are currently training NCP caregivers and smallholder famers in conventional agriculture. This concept was adopted in Zimbabwe and its main aim is to promote local food production, maximize harvest in a small piece of land, and empow
WFP Eswatini Country Brief, December 2020
Format
US$ 4.9 million cash-based transfers made between January and December 2020
US$ 4.5 million six-month (January 2020-June 2021) net funding requirements
182,311 people assisted in December 2020
Operational Updates
• WFP provides social safety nets for 55,000 orphans and vulnerable children under 5 years at the 1,700 Neighbourhood Care Points (NCPs) in Eswatini through access to food and basic social services.
• WFP works with the Government in implementing a sustainable, nutrition-sensitive, shock-responsive national school meals programme. The Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) project started in September 2019, targeting 50 schools and 24,392 students. WFP works with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to empower local smallholder farmers to provide schoolchildren with food that is safe, diverse, nutritious and local.
WFP Eswatini Country Brief, November 2020
Format
US$ 4.2 million cash-based transfers made between January and November 2020
US$ 6.1 million six-month (December 2020-May 2021) net funding requirements
114,753 people assisted in November 2020
Operational Updates
• WFP provides social safety nets for 55,000 orphans and vulnerable children under 5 years at the 1,700 Neighbourhood Care Points (NCPs) in Eswatini through access to food and basic social services.
• WFP works with the Government in implementing a sustainable, nutrition-sensitive, shock-responsive national school meals programme. The pilot Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) project started in September 2019, targeting 50 schools and 24,392 students. WFP works with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to empower local smallholder farmers to provide schoolchildren with food that is safe, diverse, nutritious and local.