WFP Republic of Congo Country Brief, February 2024 – Congo

On Avr 6, 2024

In Numbers

Operational Update

WFP in the Republic of Congo welcomed Gon Myers as Country Director and Representative.

Flood response

In support of the Government, WFP continued facilitating the coordination of the inter-agency response to the floods since the state of humanitarian emergency was declared on 29 December 2023.
WFP provided logistical support and technical expertise to the Government and the humanitarian community. This included beneficiary data management in support of the Government national response headed by the Ministry of Social Affairs, Solidarity and Humanitarian Action. WFP transported and set up storage facilities for food and non-food items for humanitarian responders in the Likouala and Cuvette Departments. WFP also transported 2.59 metric tons of UNFPA’s non-food items to the Plateaux, Cuvette, Likouala, Pool and Lékoumou Departments, and the city of Pointe-Noire as part of the flood response.

Food assistance and nutrition support

The refugees are spread out in the Republic of Congo. Through cash-based transfers (CBT), WFP assisted 3,368 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) originating from the Kwamouth area, residing in Ngabé (Pool Department). 4,712 refugees from DRC originating from the Yumbi district received CBT in Bouemba (Plateaux Department). 19,725 refugees from the Central African Republic received CBT in Bétou (Likouala Department).
As part of the treatment and prevention of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM), WFP assisted 12,546 children aged 6 to 59 months and 14,336 pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls in the cities of Brazzaville, Pointe-Noire, and the Departments of Likouala, Plateaux, Pool and Lékoumou. The distributions were implemented through health centres with the National Directorate of Hygiene and Health Promotion.

School Feeding & country capacity strengthening

WFP distributed an estimated 319 mt of food to 82,184 schoolchildren in seven departments across the country (Likouala, Sangha, Cuvette, Plateaux, Pool, Bouenza, Lékoumou) under the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) funded McGovern-Dole programme (2021-2026).
Continuing efforts initiated the previous month in other Departments covered by the USDA-funded McGovern-Dole programme, WFP raised awareness and strengthened the capacity of 250 local school feeding stakeholders (directors, inspectors, teachers, cooks and school canteen management committees) in canteen management in the Likouala and Sangha Departments.
An estimated 11,357 schoolchildren received meals in 38 schools under the Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) approach known locally as “Cantine ya Buala”, which enables schools to provide school meals based on local production thanks to WFP’s CBT. This approach is implemented in the Departments of Bouenza and Pool with the support of Mastercard.

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