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Enhanced School Feeding with Iron Fortified Rice in Maguindanao, Philippines (31 March 2021)
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INTRODUCTION:
In 2006, the World Food Programme (WFP) reestablished support in Mindanao by implementing food assistance, school feeding and sustainable livelihood projects to improve economic conditions. In 2018, WFP supported the implementation of Homegrown School Feeding in Maguindanao and conducted a Fill the Nutrition Gap study in all regions including BARMM as basis for a framework for a strengthened nutrition situation analysis and decision making on nutrition programs. Of the major indicators on factors affecting nutrition, BARMM was found to have high malnutrition prevalence – stunting at 39.9 percent among under-five and 38.7 percent among the school-aged children; and anemia at 17.3 percent and 16.9 percent among the pre-schoolers and school-aged children, respectively - according to the Enhanced National Nutrition Survey (eNNS). These figures, are particularly high in M
WFP Eswatini Country Brief, February 2021
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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
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March 01, 2021
We, the African Union (AU) Member States, the African Union Commission (AUC), the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD (AUDA-NEPAD), the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), as well as distinguished invitees,
RECALLING previous AU Assembly of Heads of State and Government declarations and decisions on home-grown school feeding that recognise its contributions to improving access to education and learning outcomes, and the positive impact it plays in strengthening local and rural economies and food systems as a means of tackling malnutrition and improving livelihoods. Assembly Decision 589 (XXVI) adopted at the Assembly s 26