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WFP Palestine Country Brief, January 2020

Pays
territoire Palestinien occupé
Sources
WFP
Date de publication

In Numbers

277,643 people assisted in January 2020

US$2.8 m cash-based transfers made 97 mt of food distributed

US$13.8 m six months (March-August 2020) net funding requirements

Operational Updates

• In January, WFP assisted 223,113 and 54,530 poor food-insecure people in Gaza and the West Bank respectively, predominantly through electronic food vouchers but also through in-kind food parcels. WFP’s food assistance is a fundamental safety net that prevents poor households from falling into deeper poverty and food insecurity.

• Initial findings of a participatory gender analysis which has been conducted on behalf of WFP by the Arab World for Research and Development (AWRAD) are being finalized to be available in early March. A key recommendation of the initial findings is to empower women through economic resilience activities and use WFP’s comparative advantage of having close operational presence to beneficiary households as leverage to sensitize the local communities, including women, men, girls and boys on different gender related issues. The analysis aims at facilitating WFP’s ongoing effort to develop a gender-transformative strategy for WFP in Palestine by informing the specific needs, interests, priorities, vulnerabilities and capacities of women, men, girls and boys in Palestine. It will further enhance mainstreaming of gender equality in the planning, design, implementation and evaluation of WFP activities for them to be more effective, efficient and empowering.

• WFP and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have finalized the initial findings of their joint analysis on the barriers to positive infant and young child feeding and maternal nutrition behaviours in Gaza and the West Bank.
Based on these findings, the two agencies incoordination with stakeholders, are designing a multi-sectoral and multiyear action plan for nutrition-sensitive Social Behavioural Change Communications (SBCC) interventions to vulnerable communities in 2020.

• WFP lent its Cash-Based Transfer (CBT) platform to UNICEF to provide hygiene and cleaning materials to more than 3,000 vulnerable families across the Gaza Strip. The target families, which are recipients of WFP CBT assistance (monthly US$10 per person) , received a cash value of 200 Israeli Shekels on their WFP voucher card to purchase hygiene and cleaning materials at around 200 shops participating in WFP CBT programme. This one-time complementary assistance has prioritized families living in areas prone to flooding, headed by women and with depenedents suffering from disabilities.