In Numbers
USD 19.2 million six-month (Dec 2022 – May 2023) net funding requirements
54,000 metric tons of food commodities procured, injecting USD 22.5 million into the national economy since January 2022
200,782 refugees and asylum seekers in camps supported with food assistance
Operational Updates
Climate Adaptation: WFP continued the implementation of the Irrigation and Climate Resilience Project in collaboration with the District Councils of Kondoa, Kongwa, and Mpwapwa. Through this intervention, WFP is supporting the establishment, expansion, and rehabilitation of 32km of irrigation schemes supplying 2,610 acres of land while engaging impacted communities (1,500 participants) in asset-creation activities. The schemes will support 26,000 vulnerable people in accessing irrigation water for agricultural and horticultural activities and livestock farming. WFP is also establishing water distribution points across the irrigation canals to facilitate safe access to water. To ensure sustainability, WFP is equipping participants and targeted communities with the skills required for water and crop management as well as mitigating climate shocks, including land and soil degradation. Participants receive cash transfers to meet their food needs during the implementation period.
WFP started the implementation of the Water Provision Resilience Project in Dodoma, Singida, and Mwanza. The project will improve access to water for drinking, sanitation, and domestic use as well as livelihoods including livestock farming and small-scale kitchen gardens. WFP will be extracting underground water using the borehole method. Communities will have access to water through a solar-powered pump supplying storage tanks at established water collection points. The intervention will serve thousands of people with a specific focus on women and youth engaged in kitchen gardens and small-scale livestock farming. In addition to improving access to water and building community climate-shock resilience, the comprehensive package will also reduce protection risks associated with water collection, including gender-based violence, by reducing travel distance – from 8 km to less than 1 km – as the water points will be established inside their communities.
Nutrition: WFP signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute to establish school gardens in 50 primary schools in Kigoma region with the objective of promoting school feeding as a social protection system for addressing malnutrition, especially micronutrient deficiencies among school-aged children and adolescents. The activity will promote the production and consumption of biofortified maize and beans, fruits, and vegetables during school days while also contributing to improved education outcomes among targeted schools and promoting the supply and demand for biofortified varieties among community members. The intervention will also complement other activities currently implemented by WFP in Kigoma in support of host communities. This initiative is part of the comprehensive technical and financial support provided to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology for the roll-out of the National School Feeding Programme.
Under its technical support to the government, WFP supported the Ministry of Health and Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre in facilitating the first Inter-ministerial meeting on the Cost of Malnutrition in Africa study. The study, which will start next year, will provide evidence of the social and economic impacts of malnutrition on health, education, and productivity. Results will serve as an advocacy tool to catalyse and increase investment in nutrition as a key pillar for human capital development. By conducting this study, Tanzania will join a list of 21 countries that have conducted similar studies and as a result, improved their policies and investment in nutrition.
Disaster Risk Reduction: WFP, in collaboration with the Disaster Management Commission in Zanzibar, organized a stakeholders’ workshop to validate the Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans developed for Magharibi A and Magharibi B districts. The stakeholders also reviewed and validated the developed guidelines for mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in district development plans to ensure preparedness and response activities are integrated and costed systematically. Similar workshops were also held in Mtwara region.
Refugee Response: WFP provided in-kind food assistance to 200,782 Burundian and Congolese refugees hosted in Nduta and Nyarugusu camps in Kigoma. The ration provided covered 80 percent of the daily kilocalorie requirement. This went hand in hand with the distribution of supplementary food to 64,586 nutritionally vulnerable groups including pregnant and lactating women, children aged below five years, and chronically ill individuals including malnourished, HIV, and TB cases. WFP also supported in-hospital patients and refugees repatriating to Burundi through the provision of hot meals.
Partnerships: WFP signed a contribution agreement of USD 6 million with the Republic of Korea to boost smallholder farmers and enhance food and nutrition security among refugees and hosting communities in Kigoma for the next four years. The funding, which has been provided through the Korea International Cooperation Agency, will support over 200,000 beneficiaries, and contribute to the triple nexus of humanitarian assistance, development, and peacebuilding in Kigoma region. More about this collaboration can be found here.
Source: World Food Programme