Informing humanitarians worldwide 24/7 — a service provided by UN OCHA

Egypt + 1 more

WFP Egypt Country Brief, February 2017

Attachments

Highlights

  • WFP launched an awareness raising campaign on the Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO 200987) that started in 2017, in support of vulnerable Syrian refugees in Egypt. The campaign informs Syrians of the upcoming trainings and provides all necessary information to apply.

  • As part of gender mainstreaming activities, WFP organized a training to school feeding supervisors in the Ministry of Education on nutrition and food safety. The training included a session on complications of adolescent pregnancies and its danger on child health.

WFP Assistance

WFP's operations in Egypt aim to save lives and protect livelihoods; enhance access to education and combat child labour through food assistance; and build resilience of vulnerable groups.
WFP Egypt provides food assistance in the form of school snacks in public and community schools in 16 governorates. Conditional incentives are provided in the form of take-home entitlements of rice and fortified vegetable oil or cash-based transfer (CBT) to the most vulnerable families of children whose school attendance reaches 80 percent or more.
As part of enhancing access of children to school and creating a conducive learning and teaching environment,
WFP, in coordination with the Ministry of Education and Directorates of Education, supported the physical upgrading of community schools. Since the project started in 2014, 555 schools were rehabilitated.
WFP also provides training to teachers to improve their capacities and to enhance their roles in creating an attractive learning environment which helps reduce drop-out rates. Until February 2017, 3,292 teachers were trained.
WFP’s Food Assistance for Assets supports vulnerable communities through the provision of training on agriculture, literacy, health, and nutrition. WFP provided training to enhance skills of participants in handicraft production, hygiene, and veterinary care.
Rural women are particularly vulnerable as they are less likely to have access to basic education or to literacy programmes, due to limited income sources of their own.
As a result, women were specifically targeted through the provision of ‘Get Ahead for Women in Enterprise’ training to design, implement and manage incomegenerating activities. As of February 2017, 24,156 women received ‘Get Ahead for Women in Enterprise’ training.
Through its climate change activities, WFP aims at enhancing livelihoods and building resilience to the effects of extreme weather shocks. Activities include, physical asset creation, community empowerment, awareness raising, and skills enhancement including vegetables and fruits plantation, pest control, as well as food storage and handling.
WFP supports Syrian refugees and Palestinian refugees from Syria through monthly CBT entitlements through electronic and paper vouchers. In February, WFP targeted 75,798 vulnerable beneficiaries out of the total 117,591 refugees currently officially registered by UNHCR, as of 31 January 2017.
In 2017, WFP is moving into a more resiliencestrengthening assistance modality with the Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO) 200987, to achieve more sustainable and durable solutions through human capital and self-reliance support to vulnerable refugee and host communities. The PRRO provides general food distribution, nutrition support, vocational trainings, capacity enhancement and access to micro-credit schemes.

In Numbers

107,406 Children received fortified date bars in community schools in January
75,356 Syrian refugees assisted in January