Operations

WFP is adapting its assistance from humanitarian activities to longer-term programmes following signature in 2002 of a memorandum of understanding between the Government and the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) after 27 years of war.

This protracted relief and recovery operation, which builds on the livelihood activities introduced in the preceding operation 10054.2, will assist food-insecure populations still recovering from the war, focusing primarily in the Planalto Central and peri-urban Luanda.

This operation incorporates the recommendations of the Office of Evaluation mission in February 2005, which provided in particular for:

• a three-year operation with a limited and diminishing, relief component; 
• increasing partnerships with other United Nations agencies, the Government and non-governmental organizations in education and health under the Government’s draft Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper; 
• expanded and improved monitoring and evaluation systems for continuous assessment of programme implementation.

With support from United Nations agencies, the Government has emphasized action to alleviate poverty and hunger; to improve mother-and-child health and strengthen the education system.

The WFP livelihood zoning exercise and food-security baseline survey have been used to select areas for interventions and identify beneficiary groups and to provide baseline information for use during this operation.

Programme priorities, corresponding to WFP’s Strategic Objectives 2, 3 and 4 include:

• greater focus on nutrition through support to mother-and-child health programmes and expansion of food-fortification programmes;
• enhanced coordination with the United Nations Children’s Fund on school feeding;
• a livelihoods approach using food for work and food for assets to enable foodinsecure people to build community assets through partnerships with organizations involved in agriculture, healthcare and infrastructure rehabilitation.

Countries

Angola

Six years after the end of the 27-year civil war, gradual progress towards a peaceful environment has been made in Angola , including the return of millions of refugees and internally displaced people....