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WFP Niger Country Brief, April 2018

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Operational Updates

  • In April, WFP provided food support to displaced and host populations in Tiloa and Inatès (Tillabéry region). This assistance complements the assistance provided by the Food Crisis Coordination Unit (cellule de coordination des crises alimentaires) with household rations; through these operations, WFP distributed 19.7 mt of food to 9,703 people including 759 children aged 6-23 months.

  • As part of the Sahel Shock Response WFP is planning a geographical extension of its intervention areas and an expansion of activities through partnerships with the ECHO Alliance and USAID Rise NGOs to cover 38 percent of the needs of the 2018 National Response Plan. This would bring the initial target for the 2018 lean season food assistance to some 600,000 beneficiaries, corresponding to a coverage of 49 communes out of the 164 vulnerable communes identified. Overall, through its various activities, including nutrition and assistance to Malian refugees, WFP plans to provide assistance to some 944,000 people during the lean season in Niger (June to August).

  • WFP provided meteorological equipment (100 rain gauges, 11 computers, 3 GPS, 40 telephones, mats, benches, supplies) worth USD 60,000 to the Conseil National de l’environment pour un Développement Durable (CNEDD) to the Early Warning and Emergency Response Community Structures (SCAPRU), the Vulnerability Monitoring Observatories, the sub-regional committees and the regional Permanent Secretariats and the National Environment Council for Sustainable Development. This will ensure the proper functioning of the CNEDD, Early Warning System and weather forecast, for an efficient implementation of early warning systems.

  • Three training sessions for partners and WFP staff on nutrition sensitive activities took place in April in the regions of Zinder, Tahoua and Agadez. The objective of these training sessions was not only to familiarize WFP staff and partners with WFP's nutrition interventions, but also to develop their capacity to make all interventions more nutrition-sensitive.