Tajikistan is a low-income, food-deficit country with a population of 7.4 million. The country has the highest rate of poverty of all the countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).Nearly two-thirds of the country's population are classified as poor, living on less than US$2.15 per day, with some 76 percent living in rural areas. The poorest groups of the population spend over 70 percent of their income on food. Around 10 percent of the rural population, or 1.4 million people, are estimated to be chronically food insecure and a further 17 percent very vulnerable to food insecurity.
The goal of WFP operations in Tajikistan is to provide food assistance to the most vulnerable and food-insecure people through emergency and recovery activities. WFP addresses the immediate food needs of victims of regularly recurring natural disasters, especially floods, earthquakes and droughts, with targeted emergency responses. WFP assists to protect the livelihoods of food-insecure households affected by recurrent shocks through seasonal vulnerable group feeding, and helps improve the nutritional status of malnourished children through targeted supplementary and therapeutic feeding. Under the food-for-assets activity, WFP assists fragile communities rebuild their livelihoods through the restoration and creation of community assets that will promote their food security. WFP also provides school meals to 360,000 primary schoolchildren and their teachers providing a safety net to vulnerable families, and also provides food assistance to tuberculosis patients and their families contributing to increased success rates for treatment.
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