WFP Egypt Country Brief, June 2022 – Egypt

In Numbers

130,000 folks assisted in June 2022
USD 2.5m cash-based transfers made
USD 49m six months (July-December 2022) internet funding necessities

Operational Updates

• WFP continued to help about 105,000 susceptible refugees by month-to-month money help to assist them safe their fundamental meals wants.

• WFP offered a capability strengthening help to Takaful Foundation and companion non-governmental organizations on managing revolving micro-loan capital of about USD 196,000 offered beforehand to girls enterprise house owners. Earlier, WFP skilled these 550 girls from eight governorates – who are actually enterprise house owners – on micro-enterprise administration, lending, and e-marketing for launching or increasing their companies.

• As a part of WFP’s help to native administrative models of chosen villages underneath the nationwide ‘Decent Life’ initiative, WFP, in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Development, carried out capability strengthening actions for 130 members of the Ministry’s numerous models in Luxor. The trainings centered on management abilities, communications by know-how and the usage of work purposes.

• As a part of the nationwide awareness-raising initiative named “Waei” (‘consciousness’ in Arabic) and the nationwide college well being programme, WFP partnered with the Ministry of Social Solidarity and the National Nutrition Institute to implement a sequence of diet workshops in chosen group faculties in Fayoum, Beni Suef, and Luxor. The workshops deal with diet throughout the ‘first 1,000 days of life” in addition to school-age/adolescents’ diet, concentrating on 500 academics who will then lengthen the trainings to their college students and communities.

• In alignment with the Government’s technique to reinforce sustainable livelihoods of rural households and to help youth and girls empowerment, WFP supported the Ministry of Local Development in establishing an exhibition for handicrafts. The gadgets modelled had been produced by girls in Giza and North Sinai underneath the ‘Ayadi Misr’ initiative in addition to the Holy Family path exhibition within the Sharqiyah governorate.