WFP Palestine Situation Report #27, 19 September 2014

Highlights

 WFP is expanding its partnership with UNICEF

and HelpAge for emergency assistance in Gaza.

WFP and UNICEF are providing vouchers to families

which allow them to purchase school uniforms for up

to two children per family, while WFP and HelpAge

are providing food vouchers to support the specific

needs of elderly people in Gaza.

 WFP is supporting UNRWA and UNDP with

shelter cluster assessment activities in Gaza

through digital data collection and mapping.

 Results from the Multi-Cluster/Sector Initial

Rapid Assessment (MIRA) show that food

insecurity in Gaza has increased due to the high level

of displacement, the inability to access livelihoods

and the lack of economic access to food. Data

collection for the Emergency Food Security and

Agriculture damages Assessment (EFSAA) in

Gaza has started this week.

 WFP’s regular school meals programme in Gaza

has been put on hold for the first semester of the

new school year due to a lack of funding. New funds

are urgently required.