Cameroon

WFP provides vulnerable communities with assistance to address food needs during the lean season, while promoting the creation of productive assets and supporting the development of income-generating activities. WFP works to ensure that vulnerable families in protracted displacement and communities at risk in chronically food-insecure areas have safe year-round access to adequate and nutritious food, and increase their resilience to shocks.

Children and pregnant and nursing women among refugees and host populations receive nutrition support aimed at preventing and treating all forms of malnutrition. Additionally, nutrition assistance is provided to malnourished individuals living with HIV. The goal of WFP’s nutrition activities is to ensure children aged between 6 months and 5 years and vulnerable women and men in prioritized food-insecure districts have reduced malnutrition rates in line with national standards by 2020.

WFP provides smallholder farmers with financial and technical support (including training) to build and manage community infrastructure and post-harvest storage facilities, improve farming techniques, diversify crops and access markets. WFP promotes the participation of smallholder farmers in local value chains, including school meals.

WFP supports the government of Cameroon in the development of social safety nets and the creation of a national system for cash transfers and for home-grown school meals, where ingredients for school feeding are bought from local smallholder farmers. Support includes South-South cooperation initiatives facilitated by WFP’s Centres of Excellence in Brazil and China.

Given the lack of commercial air operators and the significant distances and insecurity limiting access to parts of the country, WFP operates safe, reliable and cost-effective air services to enable the humanitarian community to reach people in need.