WFP’s main objectives for this EMOP are to:
- Meet urgent needs and improve food consumption for conflict-affected people (WFP Strategic Objective 1 “Save lives and protect livelihoods in emergencies”) through the timely provision of food rations and food vouchers.
- Maintain enrolment of girls and boys, including internally displaced people and refugees in assisted schools at pre-crisis levels (WFP Strategic Objective 3 “Restore and rebuild lives and livelihoods in post conflict situations”) through school feeding coverage.
This operation has been extended until 30 June 2010 as per Budget revision 03 (see below).
Countries
Palestinians have experienced a dramatic decline in their living standards and a regression of the economy due to internal and external movement restrictions, limited control over natural resources, restricted access to local and international markets, limited access of Palestinian labourers to their former work in Israel and low rates of economic producti...