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WFP Niger Country Brief, June 2018

Countries
Niger
Sources
WFP
Publication date

In Numbers

  • 6,798 mt of food assistance distributed (this figure includes 1,972 mt of food distributed for school meals from April to June 2018)
  • USD 1,164,655 cash-based transfers made
  • USD 88 m six months (July to December 2018) net funding requirements, representing 48% of the total requirement

563,560 people assisted In June 2018

Operational Updates

  • A WFP Level 3 emergency response was activated in June 2018 for the Sahel as part of the Sahel Shock Response (SSR). This response covers the five Sahelian countries (Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Niger) throughout the lean season (June to September).

  • The Level 3 emergency response was activated to ensure strong coordination and support at the regional and global levels. This level of intervention requires an urgent scale-up of staff and supply chain capacities, as well as an intensification of efforts to mobilize resources before the end of the lean season in the Sahel (June-September), which is expected to be much worse than in previous years.

  • By 25 June, WFP had provided food and cash assistance to a total of 592,376 people and general supplementary feeding for the prevention of malnutrition to 28,455 children aged 6-23 months.

  • WFP distributed 6,798 mt of food, of which 4,826 were for food and nutrition assistance during the June lean season response (58 percent of planned), and 1,972 mt for school meals between April and June (distributions were carried out on a quarterly basis). Food assistance of 260 mt for additional 15,500 people in the Diffa region had been included in the contingency prioritization plan but was not required for the month of June.

  • Niger is receiving renewed attention, mainly through the critical support of the Executive Director as well as partners and donors for the implementation and scale up of resilience activities.

  • The National Strategic "Zero Hunger Review" was launched on 12 June at a workshop chaired by the Minister of Agriculture and Livestock and attended by WFP Country Director and other key authorities. The "Zero Hunger" report is expected by mid-August 2018.