COUNTRY STRATEGY
WFP supports government efforts to reduce high rates of food insecurity and malnutrition in the country resulting from recurring (natural, economic and security) shocks and structural challenges linked to rain-fed subsistence agriculture, rapid land degradation and widespread malnutrition among others. The implementation of a three-year, multi-sectorial, integrated community-based approach to household and community resilience building, is aimed at reducing the impact of seasonal stresses and preventing a peak in acute malnutrition and mortality via WFP’s Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO). In addition, WFP also responds to the growing refugee and displaced people crises from Mali and northern Nigeria covered under two regional emergency operations (EMOP). WFP also manages the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS). WFP has been present in Niger since 1968.
