| Reporting Organization: | WFP - World Food Programme |
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| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 10,000,000 |
| Timeframe: | March 30, 2021 - September 30, 2022 |
| Status: | Implementation |
| Contact Information: | Unspecified |
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| Somalia - $ 3,350,000.00 (33.50%) | |
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| South Sudan - $ 3,350,000.00 (33.50%) | |
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| Burkina Faso - $ 1,100,000.00 (11.00%) | |
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| Congo (DRC) - $ 1,100,000.00 (11.00%) | |
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| Niger (the) - $ 1,100,000.00 (11.00%) | |
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This World Food Programme project is a coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency response initiative of $10 million for 18 months in South Sudan and Somalia. The project aims to provide integrated activities to support children’s wellbeing, health and nutrition. Project activities include: 1) delivering school meals, take-home rations and micronutrient supplementation and deworming to 111,500 school children in Somalia and South Sudan; and (2) ensuring adherence to COVID-19 mitigation measures.
| Gender and age: | Children, boys Adult women Adult men Adolescent females Children, girls |
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| Total Direct Population: | 111,500 |
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Return to topThe expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased access to nutritious food and improved health by providing school meals, take-home rations, micronutrient supplementation and deworming for girls and boys in South Sudan and Somalia; (2) improved access to a healthier and adequate learning environment (including COVID-19 mitigation measures) for girls and boys in South Sudan and Somalia; (3) increased access to adequate sanitation and hygiene services for girls and boys, especially adolescent girls in South Sudan and Somalia; (4) trained teachers on school health and nutrition, hygiene and the menstrual hygiene movement, COVID-19 mitigation measures and psychosocial support, with a focus on adolescent girls; (5) sensitized target communities including adolescent boys and girls, parents, teachers and local traditional authorities and leaders on girls’ education, nutrition, social and health rights, and on gender-based violence (GBV); and (6) improved awareness among target groups in the communities on girls’ education, knowledge, nutrition, health and reproductive health, and on GBV.
