WFP Eswatini Country Brief, December 2020
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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.
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection is mandated to coordinate and ensure gender equality and equity, promote the survival, social protection and development of children, the vulnerable and excluded and persons with a disability, and integrate fulfilment of their rights, empowerment and full participation into national development.
During the year under review, many eventful activities happened to highlight and address crucial gender issues. The Daily Graphic brings to readers some of those major activities.
Gender Minister, Parliamentary Select Committee visit witch camps
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection and the Parliamentary Select Committee on Gender, Children and Social Protection have initiated steps to help address the issue of witchcraft accusation that has led to the establishment of witch camps in the northern part of the country.
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The evening of 15th December marked the end of our first ever Hybrid Congress. In collaboration with the African Federation of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (AFOG) and the Rwanda Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RSOG), we held our FIGO Africa Regional Kigali Congress, Virtual Event with a Hub in Kigali, for those who live locally to attend, with registrants able to participate virtually from anywhere in the world.
Over two and a half days from 13th to 15th December, the Congress brought together more than 1,100 health professionals and specialists in the fields of gynaecology, obstetrics and women’s health from 74 countries.
‘Husband school’ transforms Mokhotlong men, marriages ‘Husband school’ transforms Mokhotlong men, marriages
Moorosi Tsiane
A GENDER Links and United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) initiative dubbed the ‘husband school’ has already started bearing fruit in Mokhotlong.
Gender Links and United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) started the programme from August to December last year as part of efforts to end gender-based violence.
Women whose husbands have gone through the programme recently told the
Sunday Express that their spouses had reformed and left behind their old abusive behaviour. They said the initiative has restored peace in their homes.
One such woman is ‘Mabasia Fako. Her husband, Mothetho, is one of the 20 Mokhotlong men who enrolled in the programme last year and she says she is already seeing positive changes.
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.