Publish Date : 20-Sep-2018
Germany has made contribution 11 million (US$ 12.7 million) to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to help build community resilience in South Sudan, where 6 million people are unable to meet their food needs in a fifth straight year of conflict.
The contribution comes as WFP and partners are pressing to scale up food assistance to reach up to 4.8 million people in the worst-affected areas of South Sudan. The funding runs until 2021 from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
It allows WFP to make a multi-year commitment to communities and will support WFPs longer-term work to improve the resilience and food security of 180,000 people in the Lakes, Western Equatoria, Warrap and Abyei regions. These resources will help build community assets to increase food production while at the same time supporting local markets.
WFP Country Director in South Sudan, Adnan Khan said, The importance of this contribution from the people of Germany cannot be overstated. This will help us to provide vital support to the most vulnerable at a time of increased needs and allows us to contribute to building a resilient future.
WFP activities are designed both to address immediate food needs while at the same time promoting the ability of vulnerable communities to withstand future shocks to their food security. WFP provides various kinds of assistance food for people building and restoring community assets, life-saving emergency food, emergency school feeding and the treatment of moderate acute malnutrition among children, and pregnant and nursing women.
Ambassador of Germany to South Sudan, Jan Hendrik van Thiel said, Germany is delighted to be working together with WFP to help some of the most vulnerable people in South Sudan. This new contribution provides continuing support to improving food security in the most vulnerable parts of the country and strengthening peoples resilience.
In 2017, Germany was one of the top donors to WFP worldwide, contributing more than US$925 million to WFP operations globally. Germany is a long-standing partner of WFPs assistance in South Sudan and has contributed more than US$80 million since 2015.
About United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
The United Nations World Food Programme saving lives in emergencies and changing lives for millions through sustainable development. WFP works in more than 80 countries around the world, feeding people caught in conflict and disasters, and laying the foundations for a better future.
Assisting 80 million people in around 80 countries each year, the World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.
As the international community has committed to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition by 2030, one in nine people worldwide still do not have enough to eat. Food and food-related assistance lie at the heart of the struggle to break the cycle of hunger and poverty.
WFPs efforts focus on emergency assistance, relief and rehabilitation, development aid and special operations. Two-thirds of our work is in conflict-affected countries where people are three times more likely to be undernourished than those living in countries without conflict.
WFP development projects focus on nutrition, especially for mothers and children, addressing malnutrition from the earliest stages through programmes targeting the first 1,000 days from conception to a childs second birthday, and later through school meals.
It is the largest humanitarian organisation implementing school feeding programmes worldwide and has been doing so for over 50 years. Each year, WFP provides school meals to between 20 and 25 million children across 63 countries, often in the hardest-to-reach areas.
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