Libya

WFP assists food-insecure and vulnerable people including crisis-affected internally displaced people, returnees, non-displaced populations, refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants living in urban settings. WFP provides regular food assistance across the country as well as emergency food assistance through the Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM). WFP is currently finalising plans to begin providing electronic commodity voucher assistance to an initial group of 10,000 beneficiaries in the northwest of the country.

Working with local partners, WFP identifies vulnerable people for vocational training courses. These provide skills training related to the needs of local businesses as well as the expressed interests of participants. The initiative ensures that WFP programmes support stabilization and integrate the humanitarian-development-peace nexus through the empowerment of women and youth, enabling people to rebuild self-reliant, resilient communities.

WFP leads the Food Security Sector, the Logistics Sector and the Emergency Telecommunications Sector as well as managing the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS). In 2019, the operation also opened the UN Hub in Benghazi.

WFP works with the Libyan Ministry of Education to provide daily school meals to 18,000 children in the south of the country. This number is expected to increase to 40,000 during 2020. WFP has also provided training for school feeding focal points and during the summer of 2019 ran, in tandem with the Ministry of Education and the local communities, the Nutrition Summer Camp for 600 children in Tripoli, aiming to educate children and parents on nutrition and health. The operation ultimately plans to hand over a national school feeding strategy to the Government.

WFP has taken significant steps in the fields of data collection and monitoring of market trends. This includes Vulnerability Analysis Mapping bulletins shared with the humanitarian and development community, and the WFP Migration Pulse, which presents the findings of data collection using innovative web surveys among migrants and refugees in Libya. In addition to this, WFP continues to undertake assessments in order to streamline projects and programme focuses based on actual needs.

WFP is continuing the dialogue on regional migration and support for the development of a regional migration strategy. The strategy, a work in progress, is an outcome of the various protection and access issues faced by migrants and is based on ongoing evidence from various interventions and innovative data collection activities. WFP also provides food to migrants in urban settings through a project run in conjunction with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).