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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

The agreement was signed in Nairobi by H.E. Maarten Brouwer, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Kenya, Lauren Landis, WFP’s Country Director and Representative in Kenya, Alexandros Makarigakis, Director and Representative a.i. UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa, H.E. Mohamud M. Ali, Governor of Marsabit County and H.E. Jeremiah E.

Smallholder farmers often lack the skills and the knowledge to trade effectively, yet most are fully dependent on their farms for income. Through the Market Access programme, WFP in Kenya is training farmers in marketing agricultural commodities, mainly grains, connecting smallholder farmers to markets, and supporting the economic empowerment of women and men. 

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.

World Food Programme (2023). Regional Bureau for Eastern Africa – Breakthrough in the skies: UNHAS.           Annual Country Reports Available at: Annual Country Reports 2023 | World Food Programme (wfp.org)

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.

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.