In Rwanda, WFP provides food assistance through a Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO), Development Programme (DEV) and Food for new village (FFNV) to improve the living conditions and nutritional status of food insecure households.
The Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation contributes to achieving MDG 4, 5 and 6 and aims at meeting food needs of 116,000 beneficiaries including 57,000 refugees, Rwandan refugees returning home and school children from the refugee camps and from the community around the new Kigeme camp. The most vulnerable segments of the population in the refugee camps also receive additional rations under safety net interventions to increase their nutritional status. These groups include pregnant and lactating mothers, malnourished children and people living with HIV/AIDS on ART.
WFP provides food assistance to 83,000 primary schoolchildren in food-insecure districts of Nyamagabe and Nyaruguru through a hot midday meal consisting of beans, maize, vegetable oil and salt. A key element is the technical capacity building of government counterparts in managing the programme.
WFP also purchases food commodities locally, part of it from small holder farmers and also build capacity to these farmers to produce more for more. WFP plans to purchase around 20,000mt of food commodities from Rwanda in 2012 through Purchase for Progress (P4P) and Forward Purchase Facility (FPF), part of it will be purchased directly from the small holder farmers. This is in line with WFP’s objective to ensure sustainable food security in Rwanda.
Last year, WFP reached 541,000 people with food supplies in Rwanda. In 2012, WFP is targeting around 20,000 people for food assistance in the refugee camps and primary schools. In addition to the Kigali country office, WFP has sub-offices in Huye, Ngoma and Kigali city.
WFP is working to connect farmers in Rwanda to markets through the Purchase for Progress initiative. Learn more