In Numbers
840.5 mt of food distributed
233,945 USD cash-based transfers
2.2 USD million six-month (February 2024 – July 2024) net funding requirements
151,397 people assisted
Operational Update
• In support of the Government, WFP facilitated the coordination of the joint UN-Government floods impact assessment and the inter-agency response to the floods since the state of humanitarian emergency was declared on 29 December 2023.
Food assistance and nutrition support
• Through cash-based transfers (CBT), WFP assisted a total of 3,136 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC, Kwamouth area) in Ngabé (Pool Department), and 4,727 refugees from DRC (Yumbi district) in Bouemba (Plateaux Department).
• 19,860 refugees from the Central African Republic residing in Bétou (Likouala Department) benefitted from in-kind food distribution.
• As part of the treatment and prevention of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM), WFP assisted 11,872 children aged 6 to 59 months and 12,572 pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls in the cities of Brazzaville,
Pointe-Noire, and the Departments of Likouala, Pool, Lékoumou and Plateaux. The distributions were implemented through health centres with the National Directorate of Hygiene and Health Promotion.
• An evaluation of the Food for Asset market gardening project implemented in the Mindouli and Kindamba districts (Pool Department) between August and December 2023 showed that 97 percent of the 1,500 participants were satisfied with the project. On average, the area cultivated by smallholders doubled.
School Feeding & country capacity strengthening
• WFP distributed an estimated 329 mt of food to 86,780 schoolchildren in seven departments across the country under the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) funded McGovern-Dole programme (2021-2026).
• WFP raised awareness and strengthened the capacity of 521 local school feeding stakeholders (directors, inspectors, teachers, cooks and school canteen management committees) in canteen management as part of the USDA-funded McGovern-Dole programme in the Bouenza and Pool Departments.
• An estimated 7,011 schoolchildren received meals in 42 schools under the Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) approach, known locally as “Cantine ya Buala”, which enables schools to provide school meals based on local production thanks to WFP’s CBT.
