WFP approves $431 mln grant for Egypt's food security plan 2023-2028

  • 2023-07-03 01:36:31
The grant for Egypt's Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2023-2028 was approved during the WFP Executive Board's annual session in Rome, Italy from 26-30 June 2023. The grant aims to continue the progress made in the previous CSP 2018-2023 and achieve new objectives. Food security among the most vulnerable groups in Egypt is threatened by inflation, currency devaluations, water scarcity, and environmental degradation, as stated in the CPS 2023-2028 document. Moreover, amid regional instability, Egypt accommodates a large number of vulnerable refugees from neighbouring countries such as Syria, Sudan, Yemen, and Libya. Egypt's CSP aims to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 of ending hunger and SDG 17 of revitalizing global partnerships to strengthen project implementation, as stated in its official document. The plan aims to achieve these goals through three targeted outcomes, as outlined. The first outcome is to provide essential food and nutritional needs, as well as promote self-reliance, to all crisis-affected populations in Egypt, including refugees. The second outcome is to ensure that targeted groups in Egypt benefit from more resilient, sustainable, and climate-adaptive livelihoods and food systems by 2028. Lastly, the strategic plan aims to enhance Egypt's government capacity, programmes, and systems to improve access to and quality of food, nutrition, health, and education services for populations in vulnerable situations by 2028. The plan will be executed in partnership between the WFP and the country's ministries of agriculture and land reclamation, environment, social solidarity, manpower, and local development. In addition, the WFP will collaborate with the National Council for Women, the High Council for People with Disabilities, and rural community development associations to adopt an inclusive and gender-transformative approach aimed at uplifting the most disadvantaged. The WFP will collaborate with other UN entities, such as UN Women, the ILO, and the UNDP, to achieve its goals.

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