Sri Lanka
A middle-income country, Sri Lanka is focusing its development agenda on accelerating economic growth and recovering from a 30-year civil war that ended in 2009, while ensuring good governance and sustaining peace. The country is credited with considerable advancement in several development areas, including promoting universal primary education, reducing maternal and child mortality, and halving poverty levels. However, progress towards achieving food security, improved nutrition and gender equality, as well as minimizing geographic and socio-economic development disparities, has not been equally swift.
What the World Food Programme is doing in Sri Lanka
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Emergency preparedness and response
WFP emergency relief interventions support highly vulnerable communities during a disaster and in the recovery phase, with the aim to ensure that those affected have adequate access to food. In addition, WFP works to strengthen government capacity on: shock responsive safety nets; early warning systems; situation mapping and vulnerability analysis; food/cash assistance; and state-of-the-art map-based visualizations for early shocks response warning.
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School meals
WFP supports the government in ensuring that targeted school-aged children have access to mid-morning meals. The programme currently benefits 160,000 children in 968 schools in former conflict areas in the Northern Province. This addresses short-term hunger, increases school retention, improves health and encourages community integration.
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Nutrition
To improve nutrition, WFP supports the health system in the prevention and management of moderate acute malnutrition; facilitates the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) civil society and business networks; promotes behaviour change communication; develops nutrition products; and strengthens capacities to enhance the availability, accessibility, and consumption of fortified foods, including Thriposha (locally produced corn-soya blend) and fortified rice.
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Resilience building and livelihood support
WFP works to enhance the capacities, assets and systems of the most vulnerable families and communities to prepare, withstand and recover better from recurrent climate-induced shocks. The focus is on 13 disaster-prone and food insecure districts, where WFP supports locally-driven projects, including environmental conservation, land rehabilitation, water harvesting, and skills training for livelihood support.
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