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April 2015

Food Response to EVD in Liberia

Aug 2014 to May 2015

WFP Sub Offices in Liberia

Project duration and objective

Duration: 25 August 2014 to 31 May 2015- 9 months Objective: Contribute to meeting the urgent food and nutrition needs of vulnerable people and communities during the period of the EVD crisis

CARE

Treatment Survivors

CONTAIN

Isolated households

Areas of intense transmission

TRANSITION

Kickstart local economies in areas formerly of intense transmission

Conceptualisation of Ebola EMOP

Port Hub

Airport Hub Upstream Pipeline Downstream Pipeline Patients and caregivers in ETUs/CCCs

PROCUREMENT

Remote Counties*

Rapid Response WFP Warehouse/partner stores by Sub Offices Quarantined households & Communities Survivors People in areas of Widespread and Intense transmission

The Food Supply Chain…

Commodities Distributed by WFP (Food Basket)

A General Food Ration:

400g of cereal flour/rice/bulgur 60g of pulses 25 g of oil (vit. A fortified) 50 g of fortified blended foods (Corn Soya Blend) 5g of iodized salt

Nutritional value

Energy 2,100 Kcal Protein 58 g Fat 43g

Note: For some beneficiary categories other agencies may supply complementary food.

DAILY FOOD RATION/TRANSFER BY ACTIVITY AND TARGET GROUP

Pillars CARE CONTAIN TRANSITION Population Group Treatment Survivors Areas of intense transmission; Isolated persons Transition EVD Orphans Target Group ETUs Patients/ Caretakers (12,240) CCCs Patients/ Caretakers (46,900) Survivors + HH Adult-(3,800) Children-(430) (567,000) (236,000) (2,500) Type of transfer (g/p/day) In-kind In-kind specialized foods + cash Specialized foods + cash In-kind specialized foods Food + cash + Specialized foods (ch 6-59 mos) In-kind + Specialized foods Cereals 400 200 400 300 Pulses 60 30 60 30 50 Vegetable oil 25 25 12.5 25 12.5 25 Salt 5 5 2.5 5 Super Cereal 60 250 60 60 30 60 Super Cereal+ (child 6-59 mos: 100g) (child 6-59 mos: 100g) Plumpy'Sup (Patients only: 92g) (survivor child 6- 59 mos: 92g) Cash/voucher (USD/p/day) 0.7 LIB: 0.567 0.199 Number of feeding days over duration of BR (Jan - May) Caretaker (Staff): 150 Patients: 3 Caretaker (family): 3 Caretaker (Staff): 150 HH food: 30 HH cash:90 Survivor child: 60 Areas of transmission: average 30 (max 60- 90) Isolated: average 30 Average 60 (max 120) 150

Estimated Beneficiaries Reached 25 Aug 2014 – 31 March 2015

BENEFICIARIES REACHED - 28 AUG - 31 March CARE CONTAIN TRANSITION Patients (and their caregivers if meals provided) Survivors (survivor adult & child – excluding HH) Contacts Isolated or Quarantined Communities in areas of high transmission Orphans Communities in areas of former high transmission 1,282 1,100 86,210 574,432 2,434 11,600

• Food distribution in some locations experienced delays due to ongoing

changes in customs administration. The situation was resolved through the intervention of the National Ebola Incident Management System.

• The frequent change in geographic location of the outbreak required

WFP to put in place preparedness measures including the deployment

• f staff and logistics capacity in all 15 counties that will allow for rapid

response to new hotspots as they emerged.

• Organizing food distribution for EVD orphans in different locations in all

15 counties

• Providing food assistance to institutionalized non-EVD related orphans
• Challenges

Implementing Partner Counties of Operation ADRA Lofa , Nimba & Grand Gedeh CARITAS- CAPE PALMAS River Gee ,Maryland & Grand Kru CARITAS- GBARNGA Bong CARITAS-MONROVIA Bomi & Gbarpolu Liberia Agency for Community Development -LACD Sinoe Liberia Agency For Community Empowerment - LACE Bassa & Rivercess Liberia Islamic Union for Reconstruction & Development - LIURD Cape Mount Liberia National Red Cross Society - LNRCS Montserrado & Margibi

Partners

Donors to WFP’s EVD operation in alphabetical order

Brazil Canada China Germany Japan Liberia Private Donors Russian Federation UN CERF United Kingdom USA World Bank

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