WFP Mauritania Country Brief, January 2020
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USD 0.8 m cash-based transfers made
USD 11.8 m six months (February 2020 – July 2021) net funding requirements
86,231 people assisted in January 2021
Operational Updates
WFP continued implementing treatment of moderate acute malnutrition in Guidimakha, Assaba and Hodh El Charghi regions, reaching 7,161 children and pregnant and lactating women. A new screening exercise is under preparation for Assaba and Hodh El Charghi region in order to identify people in need of nutrition assistance.
The school feeding programme resumed on 4 January following the decision of the Mauritanian government to reopen schools. A daily morning porridge and a hot meal were distributed to 19,694 pupils in the three regions of the country where WFP already implemented a package of resilience building activities. As part of a refocusing exercise to concentrate school-canteens in the same communes and departments as resilience sites, new schools were i
UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator visits community projects in Basra and Thi-Qar and discusses support needed [EN/AR]
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Basra, Iraq; 29 January 2021 -The Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq and the United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq, Ms. Irena Vojáčková-Sollorano visited Basra and Thi-Qar this week. Ms. Vojáčková-Sollorano was accompanied by Mr. Abdirahman Meygag, Representative of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Dr. Rita Columbia, Representative of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Dr. Salah ElHajj Hassan, Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Mr. Paolo Fontani, Director and Representative of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and Mr. Wael Al-Ashhab, Head of Country Programme of United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat).
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WFP Tajikistan Country Brief, December 2020
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993,049 mt of food assistance distributed In December 2020
US$ 131,377 cash-based transfers made in December 2020
US$ 2.04 m six months (February – July 2021) net funding requirements
Operational Updates
• In December, WFP held a ceremony to hand over to the Government of Tajikistan over 180 tons of vegetable oil purchased with funds from the Russian Federation. This was the first batch of a total of 300 tons of vegetable oil to cover the needs of its National School Feeding Programme in the country. The handover ceremony was attended by representatives from WFP, the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Tajikistan, the Ministry of Education and Science of Tajikistan, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population of Tajikistan and other partners.