With the scale up of cash transfers in refugee settlements to improve dignity and impact benefits to the people we serve, there is a need to intensify financial literacy initiatives. Financial inclusion and financial literacy among refugee settlements and host communities is imperative as most development partners in Uganda are moving to cash transfer programming.
In collaboration with the Government of Kenya - and in particular the County Government of Nairobi - WFP is exploring to introduce a cash-based, locally procured school feeding model in the informal settlements of Nairobi by September 2015, in the 94 primary schools in seven different informal settlements of the city currently being supported by WFP.
El Niño is fuelling a major, global food security crisis affecting some 60 million people. WFP is responding with relief and longer-term resilience building programmes.