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Senegal

WFP Senegal Country Brief, August 2017

Attachments

Highlights

  • The provisional results of the Zero Hunger Review were shared with key stakeholders in August. The Zero Hunger Review is a consultative process to map out the national context for food security, nutrition, social protection and resilience. It will identify gaps and propose actions for greater synergies between the Government of Senegal and its partners.

  • A workshop was jointly organized by WFP and the Executive Secretariat of the National Security Council (SECNSA) to build stakeholders’ capacities on analytical technics related to food and nutrition security.

Operational Updates

Zero Hunger Review (ZHR):

During a restitution and validation workshop held on 29 August, the Lead Convener of the Zero Hunger Review, Pr. Ndioro Ndiaye, presented the results of several months of intensive consultations. The conclusions of the various thematic groups were shared with the Steering Committee of the ZHR, which includes Government officials, UN agencies, NGOs and CSOs. The evaluation process of the report is ongoing.
In September, a final validation workshop will be held, under the lead of the Prime Minister’s Office. The final report of the Zero Hunger Review will be officially handed to the President of Senegal in October 2017. Key recommendations will be included in the evaluation of the first phase of the Plan Sénégal Emergent (PSE), the flagship for the Government’s economic and social policy (2014–2035).

Resilience and Rural Development (R4 initiative):

The first distribution of R4 vouchers was carried out in Tambacounda. Beneficiaries exchanged vouchers against various commodities (cereals, oil, sugar, soap). The second distribution will be held in September. Subscriptions to the agricultural insurance index were completed for the year 2017. Through its partnership with the National Agricultural Insurance Company of Senegal (CNAAS), WFP has covered 6,033 producers against rainfall deficits.
Field activities included the following: creation of 6,300 m of linear stony lanyards, consolidation of 10,000 m of stony lanyards, training of 29 technical relays on soils restoration and good agricultural practices, inputs implantation (rice seeds, NPK fertilizer and urea), protection of 142.5 ha of lowland, as well as nurseries setting up (vetiver, moringa and melifera).

Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM):

On 2-25 August, a capacity development workshop on food security analysis was jointly organized in Thiès by WFP and the Executive Secretariat of the National Security Council (SECNSA). The workshop’s objective was to strengthen the knowledge of the members of the Early Warning System (SAP) group in information gathering and analytical technics related to food and nutrition security.
The program included: key concepts; defining, calculating and interpreting food security indicators (food consumption score, dietary diversity score, adaptation strategy index, livelihood assets changes, share of food expenditure); food insecurity classification through the CARI method; and STATA software.