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In this update: WFP, in collaboration with the County Government of Kilifi and other partners, has started a nutrition sensitive cash for assets project in Kilifi County. The project aims to train families participating in Cash For Assets (CFA) activities on ways to improve their diets. Families will learn how to grow and prepare food that has high nutritional value. 

Highlights Generous donations were received from the United States/Food For Peace (USD 21.3 million to the EMOP and USD 2 million to the PRRO), allowing WFP to continue vital programmes.

In Lebanon, WFP provides assistance to vulnerable Syrian refugees and Palestinian refugees from Syria with e-cards. E-cards are the principle assistance modality as local markets are capable of providing sufficient food. Beneficiaries use the e-cards like a debit card in over 400 WFP-contracted shops around Lebanon.

This issue includes: - Boat People Crisis - Return of Kokang IDPs - From Protracted Emergency to Early Recovery - New Resource Centre in Kyaukse - Food Security and Poverty Estimation Surveys - Seasonal Floods in Rakhine

WFP aims to reach 2.1 million people with emergency food assistance from August onwards and needs at least 6,000 metric tons of food each week to do so. Due to insecurity and operational constraints, it has been unable to bring these quantities into Tigray in recent weeks.   More than 175 trucks arrived in the Tigray region, via the Abala corridor, during the first week of August.

Exchange rate movements can have implications for food prices and, consequently, access to food. This guidance note explains why it is important for food security analysts to monitor exchange rates; how to correctly report on exchange rate movements; and how WFP’s DataViz keeps track of them.

In July a second Budget Revision (BR) of EMOP 200765 was approved.

The Annual assessment’s objectives mainly was to understand the status of livelihood sources in the rural and urban areas, thus to determine levels of food insecurity amongst populations, estimating vulnerable populations facing food insecurity and establish forms of coping mechanisms adopted during periods of food insecurity.