World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

WFP Cambodia supports the efforts of the Government in tackling food security challenges with a focus on food-based social safety nets and national systems development. 

 

 WFP activities reach close to 1 million food-insecure people per year in rural Cambodia. The overall goal of WFP's assistance in Cambodia is to improve food security and nutrition for the hungry poor by building longer-term social capital and physical assets, but also by building models and strengthening capacities that promote the development of sustainable national food security systems.

 

Under the Country Programme 2011-2016, resources are allocated to interventions in Education, Nutrition and Productive Assets/Livelihoods Support. Provision of time-critical food security information through Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM) is also a key activity.

 

WFP’s main interventions can be summarized as follows:  

 

Education, including the provision of on-site daily hot nutritious breakfasts to primary school children and the provision of monthly food or cash scholarships (take home rations) to children from poor food insecure families.

 

 

 

 

 

Nutrition, including food assistance to pregnant and lactating women, and children aged 6-23 months, addressing their nutritional needs during the ‘1000 days window of opportunity’ through the promotion of community-based nutrition interventions; and providing support to the Government and NGOs in providing nutritional assistance to People Living with HIV and Aids and Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs).

 

 

 

Productive Assets and Livelihoods Support, including Food for Assets, the sustainable creation of community assets providing off-season income-generation during the annual lean season.

 

These activities all contribute to the pursuit of the Cambodia Millennium Development Goals (CMDGs) 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7.

 

 

 

WFP co-facilitates the Government-Development Partner joint Technical Working Group on Food Security and Nutrition and the joint Working Group on Social Protection as well as the United Nations Disaster Management Team in Cambodia.