Food security and livelihood project in villages along the contact line in eastern Ukraine: Post Distribution Monitoring Report #2
1 INTRODUCTION
This report summarizes the findings of the second Post Distribution Monitoring exercise related to the project “Food security and livelihood project in villages along the contact line in GCA” funded by the French Ministry Of Foreign Affairs.
Program background
Triangle Génération Humanitaire (TGH) started the implementation of a food security and livelihoods program in the buffer zone (GCA) in March 2016. This program consists in the provision of food vouchers to over 3000 families living in rural locations along the frontline (Popasnyanskii, Artemivskii and Yasynuvatskyi Raions, in both Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts). Vouchers are to be redeemed at small local grocery stores that volunteered to be partners to the program, rather than at supermarkets as generally done within the frame of other food voucher projects implemented in eastern Ukraine. Shop owners have been trained and equipped whenever necessary with the requested material, as the program resorts to dematerialized food vouchers delivered and exchanged thanks to a mobile money system.