COUNTRY STRATEGY:
Recent drought and political instability in Mali has exacerbated food insecurity, eroded coping capacities and weakened the resilience of vulnerable populations. In response, WFP’s emergency operation (EMOP) 200525 has assisted over 1 million beneficiaries with a mixture of GFD, nutrition, emergency school feeding and early recovery activities. Beginning in 2015, relief and recovery efforts will be implemented under a new PRRO (2015-2017) targeting 2.6 million beneficiaries in vulnerable households, mainly in the north. While maintaining WFP’s emergency-response capacity, the PRRO will expand efforts to strengthen the ability of food insecure communities to resist and recover from shocks. In conjunction, the budget of the Country Programme (CP) 105830 (2008–2014) will be extended in 2015. WFP has been present in Mali since 1964.
