In Numbers
238 mt of food assistance distributed
US$343,000 cash to schools for HGSF
US$10,000 six-month (February – July 2023) net funding requirements
179,400 people assisted
Operational Updates
School Feeding Programme
• To celebrate the new academic year and mark its further commitment for full national ownership of the school feeding programme, the Royal Government of Cambodia took over programmes for an additional 137 schools from WFP into their management. Approximately 40 percent of the 1,113 schools with school meals programmes in Cambodia are now funded and managed by the Government.
• WFP dispatched 363 mt of rice and vegetable oil to 574 schools for use in the first quarter. 100,000 students in the hybrid school feeding programme will benefit from this food assistance, in addition to the vegetables and animal protein procured locally.
• The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and WFP conducted a countrywide school feeding programme workshop in Kampong Thom to exchange ideas and experiences among WFP-supported schools and those under the national programme. 103 representatives (25 women) from provincial departments and district offices of education, schools, local authorities and implementing partners attended. They made commitments to enhance coordination mechanisms across implementing levels, strengthen the community-school interactions, fully utilize the information system, ensure healthy eating and a safe learning environment for schoolchildren, and build a vision toward a possible programme expansion to lower secondary schools in the future.
Shock-responsive Social Protection
• WFP and UNICEF sought partnership with the National Social Assistance Fund (NSAF), a new body officially launched this month to provide social assistance and social security interventions to people vulnerable to food insecurity. It was agreed that they work together to integrate activities and tools on shock-responsive social protection and anticipatory action into the NSAF intervention package and to expand the coverage to include people severely affected by floods.
Source: World Food Programme