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.