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WFP Algeria Country Brief, March 2016

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Algeria
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Highlights

  • Current funding forecasts will allow WFP to only cover 9 percent of the food entitlements requirements from July.

  • WFP currently represents the major regular source of food for Western Sahara refugees.

  • The Western Sahara refugee crisis ranks top among forgotten crises, according to the ECHO Forgotten Crisis Assessment 2014-2015.

Operational Updates

  • Throughout March, the UNHCR/WFP Joint Assessment Mission (JAM) collected data on the ongoing support to the refugees to inform 2017 programming. The results are expected by the end of April 2016.

  • Under GFD, 125,000 entitlements of 17kg were provided. The March dry food entitlement constituted of 8kg of wheat flour, 2kg of barley, 2kg of rice, 2kg of beans, 1kg of CSB+, 1kg of sugar and 0.92 kg of vegetable oil.

  • Regarding the nutrition activity, no nutrition products were provided to children under 5 due to a pipeline break. The Sahrawi authorities are finalising a screening of malnourished pregnant and nursing women and the results will be shared in April.

  • Under the school feeding activity, WFP continued to provide milk to school children. In March, only 40 mt of milk was distributed to cover 13 days, due to the two-week spring holiday.