WFP Madagascar Country Brief, September 2022 - Madagascar - ReliefWeb

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In Numbers

6,183 mt of nutrient assistance distributed

US$ 1,254,347 cash-based transfers nether the drought response

US $73.2 cardinal nett backing requirements for the adjacent thin play (November 2022 to April 2023)

453,058 radical assisted successful September 2022

Operational Updates

Emergency Overview and Response

A deterioration successful the nutrient information concern successful confederate Madagascar is expected from November 2022 (corresponding to the opening of the thin season), according to the IPC Acute Food Insecurity analysis, owed to a operation of factors specified arsenic inflation, dwindling stocks and purchasing powerfulness of households, frankincense generating the usage of alternate coping strategies to provender themselves. 2.13 cardinal radical are expected to beryllium nutrient insecure and astir each confederate districts volition beryllium successful situation (IPC3) but Taolagnaro and Ifanadiana, which volition beryllium nether stress.

In September, WFP implemented life-saving nutrient assistance for astir 364,416 nutrient insecure radical successful the astir droughtaffected districts. Food assistance is combined with nutritional assistance done the proviso of preventive supplementary feeding to 18,773 large and lactating women arsenic good arsenic 41,786 children aged 6 to 59 months.

31,083 children were assisted done malnutrition attraction during the September organisation cycle.

Cyclone Season Overview and Response

From August 2022, acknowledgment to a BHA contribution, WFP is implementing unconditional nutrient organisation for 145,944 susceptible radical successful 27 most-affected communes according to the April 2022 IPC results. Cash distributions are besides taking spot successful areas hard to scope by regular transport and wherever informal markets are available. Preparations are underway for the adjacent cyclone play with section authorities.

Based connected lessons learned during the archetypal effect phase,
February to June 2022, WFP volition fortify its interior preparedness activities and volition besides enactment organization and assemblage preparedness to cyclones and floods.

UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS)

UNHAS transported 232 passengers from 26 registered idiosyncratic organizations. In addition, UNHAS operated 1 aesculapian evacuation and 2 peculiar flights.

To amended the information of its flights, UNHAS conducted weeding work, rehabilitation of the terminal and windsock installation astatine Ambovombe airfield.