WFP distributed more than 1 million mt of food in November 2022. The WFP also made cash-based payments totaling more than US$260 million, a report states.
In November, the WFP provided emergency food, nutrition, and livelihood support to 12.4 million people throughout all 34 provinces of Afghanistan, including 16,940 people who were internally displaced.
28 percent of the aid given in November was in the form of cash-based transfers, which were distributed through direct cash, vouchers, and mobile money.
Through Food Assistance for Assets, the WFP helped more than 390,000 people in 26 provinces fulfill their basic food needs while enhancing their resilience to ongoing shocks and pressures.
Through Food Assistance for Training (FFT) initiatives, the WFP helped more than 27,000 people, including more than 13,000 women. In 16 provinces, FFT operations are active.
Nutrition Assistance
While treating malnutrition in 625,000 women and children, WFP provided healthy diets to more than 708,000 children aged 6-59 months, pregnant women, and breastfeeding mothers in an effort to prevent acute malnutrition.
More than 1,770 health centers and 427 mobile health and nutrition teams are now supported by WFP in order to maintain equitable access in difficult-to-reach areas.
School Food
More than 558,000 primary school kids received 758 mt of Bread+, 520 mt of high-energy biscuits, and 84,000 primary schoolgirls received 523 mt of fortified vegetable oil from the WFP.
In the provinces of Balkh, Jawzjan, Sar-e-Pol, and Zabul, where they are authorized to attend school, about 3,600 secondary-level girls got financial incentives.
Activities related to school feeding have resumed across the board following fruitful agreements with de facto authorities.
Since the Community Feedback Mechanism channels were introduced in 2018, the WFP registered its 100,000th case in November.
WFP registered 12,627 instances throughout the month, of which 12,363 were received via the organization’s toll-free hotline, 186 were received by email, and 92 were reported by Awaaz and forwarded to WFP. According to data from the WFP’s most recent Afghanistan Food Security Update Round 13 (Sept-Oct 2022), households spend 90% of their income on food on average, and 50% of them utilize crisis-level coping mechanisms to satisfy their basic food needs.
