In Numbers
451,117 people assisted in December 2022
553.5 mt of food assistance distributed
US$39,718 cash-based transfers made
Operational Updates
School Feeding Programme (SFP)
• WFP completed regional level school cooks competitions in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO), Sughd and Khatlon regions and the Districts of the Republican Subordination (DRS). This is the first school cooks competition among 2,000 schools participating in WFP’s SFP in 52 towns and districts in Tajikistan. The competition aims to encourage school cooks to improve their knowledge and skills in preparing school meals and to diversify school meals. The competition is held in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Science of Tajikistan, the Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population, as well as the Social and Industrial Foodservice Institute (SIFI) of the Russian Federation. The finals of the cooking competition will be conducted in Dushanbe in January 2023.
• In December, WFP Tajikistan received US$4 million contribution from the Russian Federation to support its School Feeding Programme. This will enable WFP to provide 450,000 primary schoolchildren with daily hot meals in 2,000 schools across the country.
Source: World Food Programme