Ethiopia

Through the Government of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme, chronically food insecure households receive food and cash transfers in at times of critical need in exchange for building or rehabilitating community assets such as gardens and dams. Additionally, WFP supports 900,000 malnourished children and pregnant and breastfeeding women every month with nutritionally fortified foods. Vouchers to buy fresh foods are also provided to those most in need of nutrition support, enabling them to purchase healthy items.

WFP is supporting drought-affected communities of agro-pastoralists in the Somali Region prepare for and manage climate shocks by carrying out anticipatory actions, providing microinsurance and helping boost their livelihoods. At the same time, WFP’s Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping unit supports the Government of Ethiopia to conduct emergency food security assessments and market price monitoring, to best prepare for climate disasters.

WFP provides food and cash transfers, targeted nutrition programmes, school feeding and support to boost the livelihoods of roughly 700,000 refugees in camps across Ethiopia. WFP helps refugees with irrigation agriculture, natural resource management and small-scale entrepreneurial skills to help them and their host communities become more self-reliant and food secure.

WFP works with the Government of Ethiopia and partners to improve nutrition and promote education for children in the Afar, Oromia, Somali and Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ regions by providing school meals. WFP’s Home-grown School Feeding approach, meaning the provision of school meals made with locally procured produce such as grains, pulses, vegetable oil and salt, brings additional benefits to vulnerable communities, including increased income for smallholder farmers and a boost to the local economy.

WFP works with the Government on supply chain capacity-strengthening activities, including reducing port congestion with the Ethiopian Maritime Affairs Authority, strengthening the road transport sector with the Federal Road Transport Authority, and supporting the National Disaster Risk Management agency in its implementation of an end-to-end food tracking system.

Ethiopia hosts one of WFP’s largest supply chain operations, managing the movement of over 400,000 metric tons of food per year to 3,000 distribution points and 26 refugee camps. The WFP-managed United Nations Humanitarian Air Service provides air transport for humanitarian partners and cargo to seven destinations across the country where transport infrastructure does not exist.