Ethiopia

WFP provides unconditional food and cash transfers to the most vulnerable families. Contingency stocks of food are prepositioned in case of conflict or climate-related shocks. WFP supplies food in the Somali region and part of Oromia region while the Government and its partners cover the remaining needs across the country.

Through the PSNP, chronically food insecure households receive food and cash transfers in lean seasons in exchange for building or rehabilitating community assets. WFP supports 300,000 people and the Government provides the remaining resources. With the Ministry of Health, WFP provides 4 million people with fortified food to treat malnutrition. Fresh food voucher mobile top-ups also help households in Amhara region to buy fresh nutritious produce.

WFP’s Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM) unit supports the Government on early warning action, emergency and market assessments. The R4 Rural Resilience Initiative includes building agricultural infrastructure and trainings in exchange for insurance and increased access to credit and loans. A satellite project for pastoralists also gives access to insurance payments for livestock feed and veterinary materials when droughts occur.

WFP provides food and cash transfers, targeted nutrition programmes, school feeding and livelihood support to an estimated 700,000 registered refugees. Livelihood work includes irrigation agriculture, natural resource management and market development to help refugees and host communities around the camps gradually become self-reliant for their food needs.

WFP works with the Government and partners to improve nutrition and promote education for school children in the Afar, Oromia and Somali regions. Home-grown school feeding, with locally procured products such as cereals, pulses, vegetable oil and salt, brings additional benefits including increased income for farmers and a boost for 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 UNHAS service provides air transport for humanitarian partners and cargo to seven destinations where transport infrastructure does not exist.