Summary of WFP assistance:
Under the three-year Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO) launched in January 2015 to respond to the complex crisis in Mali, WFP plans to assist up to 1.1 million beneficiaries this year through targeted distributions (food and cash), specialized nutritional products, and blanket and targeted supplementary feeding programmes for children and pregnant and lactating women. The PRRO will cover WFP’s main operations in 2015, complemented by the Country Programme (CP). It will promote stability and seek to achieve zero hunger in vulnerable communities, maintain emergency-response capacity, protect beneficiaries and promote women’s participation.
In parallel to the PRRO, the Country Programme (CP) has been extended for 6 months and will maintain assistance to 106,921 beneficiaries through a pilot project of cash for caretakers of children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM), and concurrently build resilience in the southern region. Under the Country Programme, poor households are targeted through nutrition, education and rural development activities including an extensive resilience-building project to increase their food security. Innovation is at the core of the Country Programme, with two pilot programmes in nutrition. Both the PRRO and the CP are aligned with WFP’s Strategic Objectives 1, 2 and 4, Millennium Development Goals 1 and 4, the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (2015–2019) and national policies and programmes.
