In Numbers
USD 27.4 million six-month (June – November 2024) net funding requirements
11,579 metric tons of food commodities procured since the beginning of 2024
275,828 Tanzanians and refugees benefited from WFP’s development and humanitarian interventions
Operational Updates
Support to Smallholder Farmers: WFP is expanding its smallholder agricultural market support in Kigoma to an additional 10,000 farmers, who will receive agronomy and postharvest management assistance. This brings the total number of farmers supported under this project to 20,000.
WFP completed participant registration, onboarding, and mapping of key players, including the local private sector for its Youth in Work Project in all seven targeted regions. Moreover,
WFP, along with its four implementing partners, established a plan to provide post-harvest management and access to markets support to over 30,000 participants, 60 percent of whom are youth.
Climate Adaptation: WFP, in collaboration with the Tanzania Social Action Fund, conducted community consultations in three districts, covering 12 villages where WFP is implementing the participatory agroecosystem restoration project. These consultations aim to involve communities in planning and implementing climate-smart public works. The exercise is scheduled to be completed in June 2024, reaching a total of 30 villages.
Clean Cooking Energy: WFP presented its study on Access to Cooking Energy in Kigoma to the government and partners. The study highlighted energy access for refugees and host communities, focusing on impacts on food security, health, protection, and the environment.
Additionally, WFP introduced a proof of concept titled ‘Empowering Sustainability: Carbon Revenue for Clean Cooking through Public-Private Partnerships’ to local authorities, demonstrating the feasibility of using carbon revenue to support clean cooking in Tanzania. WFP will collaborate with local authorities and National Carbon Monitoring to plan and implement the project at the community level and in schools in the coming months.
Moreover, WFP continued to address environmental concerns by providing alternative energy solutions to people with special needs in refugee camps. In May 2024, 300 families received charcoal briquettes.
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