WFP Myanmar Chin Operational Brief

Chin State is situated in the western part of Myanmar, bordering with Sagaing Region in the east, India in the west, Kachin State in the north and Rakhine State in the south. Chin State is the second smallest of all States/Regions and with a population of more than 470,000 people, ranked the second least populated States/Region.

WFP has been present in Chin State since 2008, initially providing emergency food assistance to the farmers, whose crops were destroyed by rodent infestation, affecting the food security to date. In response to the crisis, WFP provided assistance to the crop failure affected farmers through general food distribution as well as cash transfer. In order to improve the food security, nutrition status and livelihood of the food-insecure and vulnerable populations of Chin, WFP opened a sub-office in Hakha in 2009. In 2013, WFP inaugurated the first regional food security resource centre in Hakha, with an aim of enhancing the capacity of locally based organizations and to extend the coverage of food  security monitoring in Chin State.