Following the war and the launch of the Emergency Operation in Gaza (see above),
the revised PRRO now focuses on assisting around 413,000 beneficiaries in the West
Bank alone, through four types of interventions:
1) Assistance to destitute families.
WFP is working in partnership with the Ministry of Social Affairs, to fully cover
the food needs of around 98,000 destitute people
through targeted general food distributions to families registered under the ministry’s
“Special Hardship Programme” and institutional feeding for individuals in homes
for the elderly, orphanages and hospitals.
This emergency programme is designed to maintain acceptable nutrition rates amongst
the “poorest of the poor” in the West Bank.
2)
Assistance to the Vulnerable Groups.
Through this intervention, WFP assists poor farmers, unemployed workers and vulnerable
women most affected by poverty and who have only partial means to cope with food
insecurity.
Around 120,000 beneficiaries receive basic food items every two months, in cooperation
with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and CHF International (CHF), to prevent destitution
and distress coping strategies.
3) School meals programme through cash for work.
WFP introduced a school meals project in the most food-insecure areas of the West
Bank as a safety net to protect the livelihoods of the most vulnerable households.
In fact, the project provides employment opportunities to the community, through
a cash-for-work scheme.
The snacks used in distributions are prepared on a daily basis by bakeries and women
centers, who in return, receive food commodities and cash from WFP.
The nutritious snacks are thereafter provided to about 55,000 pre-school and primary
schoolchildren to eliminate short-term hunger.
WFP partners up with Near-East Foundation and the Ministry of Education in carrying
out the school feeding project.
4) Food for work and food for training
The WFP food for work and food for training programme focuses on preserving
agricultural and fishery assets to promote self-reliance and restore livelihoods
of about 25,000 beneficiaries, thus contributing to their longer-term food security.
The food for training component focuses on income generating activities and vocational
training in order to contribute to self-reliance by imparting marketable skills
and producing consumer products to support diversification of livelihoods.
Around 70 percent of food for training beneficiaries are women who will follow
trainings in beekeeping, home gardening, agricultural rehabilitation. These trainings
are provided by WFP, CRS and CHF.