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Mauritania: WFP Mauritania Brief: Reporting period: 01 January – 31 March 2015

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Source: World Food Programme
Country: Mauritania

Summary of WFP assistance

WFP provides for the immediate food and nutrition needs of vulnerable households affected by recurrent food crises in Mauritania, while also supporting the government’s resilience building efforts. For instance, through General Food Distributions using food or cash modalities to assist severely food insecure households during the peak of lean season; Food Assistance for Asset/Cash (FFA) or food transfer activities; support to village food reserves; and treatment and prevention of malnutrition among children aged 6-59 months and pregnant and nursing women. WFP also supports national capacity building for emergency preparedness and response activities. In addition, through the Country Programme, WFP provides school feeding to children enrolled in public primary schools – or in mahadras (Koranic schools) where public schools do not exist – in eight rural regions marked by low attendance, high food insecurity, malnutrition and poverty. WFP also collaborates with the government to enhance resilience to the adverse effects of climate change by improving technical services, protecting natural resources and encouraging sustainable livelihood at community level. Additionally, WFP addresses life-saving needs of refugees who have fled the conflict in northern Mali and seek asylum in Mauritania. WFP provides food and nutrition assistance, as well as emergency school feeding to Malian refugees in Mberra. Lastly, the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) in Mauritania was established as WFP’s Special Operation (SO) 200406 in March 2012 to complement humanitarian efforts in response to reduced agro pastoral production in the Sahel region and refugee influx from Mali into Mauritania. The service is the main mean through which humanitarian personnel access beneficiaries from the capital, Nouakchott. WFP interventions in the country focus on the eight rural regions marked by highest food insecurity and malnutrition rates. WFP operations in country are aligned with the government’s strategies for poverty reduction, nutrition and malnutrition. Operations support all four WFP strategic Objectives for 2014-2017, and contribute to Millennium Development Goals 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8.


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