On Tuesday, the World Bank Board of Trustees approved a donation from the International Development Association in the amount of $75 million, to finance the Adaptive Social Protection for Increased Resilience project.
WFP Niger Country Brief, December 2020
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USD 1,2 m of cash-based transfers made
USD 83 m six months (January – June 2021) net funding requirements
901 337 people assisted in November 2020
Strategic Updates
• The extension of the WFP L3 Emergency for Central Sahel (Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger) has been approved for an additional six months, until 30 June 2021.
• From 9 to 10 December, a joint UNICEF/WFP workshop was organized in Senegal on the implementation of the UNICEF/WFP concept note to strengthen the collaboration at country level in different areas, namely nutrition, school feeding, and resilience. The objective of the workshop was to take stock of the implementation of the joint programme, identifying successes and challenges and to generate orientations and recommendations to inform the development of the partnership in 2021.
WFP Niger Country Brief, November 2020
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Operational Updates
• Presidential and legislative elections in Niger will take place on 27 December. In anticipation for any possible disruptions to operations, combined WFP November and December distributions are in progress to be finalized by the end of December.
• As part of the 16 Days of Activism to end Gender-Based Violence campaign, WFP was conducting awareness raising, visibility and advocacy activities through various communication platforms and social networks.
• The continued impact of access constraints is being felt across all operations, including crisis response and development/resilience sites, since the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a Note Verbale on 2 September restricting all diplomatic and international organization travel outside of all main city limits unless accompanied by military escort. This presented major challenges to WFP’s ongoing planned activity implementation in all areas of the country.