In Numbers
289.39 mt of food distributed
144,110 USD cash-based transfers
2 USD million six-month (November 2022 – April 2023) net funding requirements
86,119 people assisted
Operational Updates
Strategic Outcome 1: Food insecure people affected by shocks have access to adequate food all year round
WFP provided in-kind food assistance to 8,855 asylum-seekers in Impfondo area (Dongou, Ibenga, Impfondo centre) and Bétou (Likouala Department).
WFP provided food assistance to 4,582 asylum-seekers from the Democratic Republic of Congo through Cash-Based transfers (CBT) in Bouemba (Plateaux Department).
150 beneficiaries in Impfondo, Enyellé and Bétou (Likouala Department) received in-kind food assistance as part of the Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) agricultural project aimed at empowering populations by growing rice, groundnuts and beans.
As part of its treatment and prevention of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM), WFP assisted 6,290 children aged 6 to 59 months and 1,467 pregnant and lactating women (PLW) in the Likouala, Plateaux, Pool, Lékoumou and Kouilou Departments. The distributions were implemented with WFP’s partner Terre Sans Frontières (TSF).
Germany confirmed a USD 2.5 million contribution to WFP’s 2022 emergency operations. This contribution will enable WFP to deliver food assistance in the form of cash-based transfers to refugees and asylum-seekers in the Likouala and Plateaux Departments and vulnerable people in urban areas. Nutritional assistance will also be provided to children aged 6 to 59 months and pregnant and lactating women.
Strategic Outcome 2: Equitable national social protection interventions effectively target vulnerable populations, including school-aged children with sustained access to safe and nutritious food
WFP delivered 213.2 metric tons of rice, peas, vegetable oil and salt to schools located in the Bouenza, Lékoumou, Pool, Plateaux, Cuvette, Likouala and Sangha Departments. These ongoing deliveries will enable school canteens to operate in the first quarter.
WFP provided food assistance to 126,155 schoolchildren from 491 schools in seven Departments through the School Feeding Programme. Among them, 37,322 received home-grown school meals.
WFP and the Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Literacy Education took part in the Global Forum on Child Nutrition co-organised by the Global Child Nutrition Foundation in Cotonou, Benin. It was an opportunity for school visits and experience sharing to identify priorities for the successful implementation of the School Feeding Programme in the Republic of Congo.
WFP continues to support the “Mbala Pinda” project implemented from 2020 to early 2022 which aimed to improve the food and nutrition security of schoolchildren and vulnerable people in the Bouenza Department while empowering 16 women smallholder groups. WFP provided CBT to 16 schools of Loudima, Madingou and Mfouati (Bouenza Department) allowing them to buy 33,202 Mbala Pinda – a nutritious bar made of peanut butter and cassava paste – produced by 160 former beneficiaries.
Strategic Outcome 3: Targeted smallholder farmers and communities benefit from productive and sustainable livelihoods which support nutrition value chains.
In collaboration with the Ministry for the Promotion of Women, WFP organised an eight-day awareness raising and training activity on the transformation of cassava into refined products such as gari, cassava flour and tapioca, benefiting 34 selected women. This activity took place under the framework of International Day of Rural Women celebrations in Dolisie (Niari Department) and contributed to WFP’s efforts to strengthen food resilience of vulnerable populations and smallholder farmers/processors in the Republic of Congo by supporting them and promoting the cassava value chain.
Source: World Food Programme