WFP Kyrgyz Republic Country Brief, September 2022 – Kyrgyzstan

In Numbers

483.4 mt of meals help distributed

US$ 90,091 cash-based transfers made

US$ 8.8 million six-month web funding necessities (October 2022 – March 2023)

48,776 folks assisted

Operational Updates

Emergency response

• WFP, in coordination with the Ministry of Emergency Conditions, and Catastrophe Response and Coordination Unit (DRCU) companions, offered a fast response to the internally displaced folks (IDPs) affected by the Kyrgyz-Tajik border clashes in mid-September. WFP offered 230 mt of combined meals commodities to cowl the wants of 20,000 IDPs for a month. WFP, along with DRCU companions, led a Speedy Emergency Evaluation and Coordination Workforce (REACT) multisectoral evaluation. Because the lead of the Meals Safety and Logistics Sectors, WFP is coordinating carefully with the Authorities, UN Nation Workforce and humanitarian companions. A Humanitarian Response Plan shall be issued quickly to scale up the life-saving assist to IDPs, returnees and host communities within the affected areas.

College meals and wholesome diets

• WFP, along with the Ministry of Training and Science, the Social and Industrial Foodservice Institute and different civil society companions, supported 49 faculties to exchange a menu consisting of a bun and tea with scorching, numerous and wholesome meals that fulfill youngsters’s power and vitamins wants as per the Ministry of Well being requirements. WFP and companions organized trainings for college cooks and offered fashionable kitchen gear and fortified wheat flour to the faculties that rehabilitated canteens and kitchens with assist from native authorities. Ranging from September 2022, these faculties are offering wholesome dishes consisting of soups, porridges, recent bakery, salads and vitamin-rich drinks to major schoolchildren in a secure setting. This contributed to the Authorities’s efforts to roll out the Optimized College Meals Programme (OSMP) throughout the nation and enhance the variety of faculties that serve high-quality scorching meals to major schoolchildren.

• In September, a lot of WFP-assisted faculties participated in change visits to discover profitable experiences on the OSMP group and administration. Throughout the visits, faculty representatives shared OSMP’s greatest practices together with faculty menu growth; faculty gardens/ farms administration; monitoring of high quality, security and effectivity of college meals group, amongst others. This offered a platform to change data to enhance faculty meals and replicate good practices.