TEHRAN The World Food Program (WFP) has released a report, expounding on activities in Iran over December 2024.
In December, WFP food support reached 33,215 recipients, that included Afghan and Iraqi refugees along with Iranian teachers.
Refugees are assisted with an essential food basket that includes fortified wheat flour (12 kg per person each month) and vegetable oil (810 ml per person monthly).
In addition to this in-kind food help, WFP offers money assistance to 7,370 Afghan and Iraqi refugee homes each month.
In December, homes headed by refugee males received Iranian rials (IRR) of 2.5 million (US$ 4.6, according to the UN Operational Rate) per person.Households headed by refugee ladies received a somewhat higher monthly money allotment, amounting to IRR 3 million (US$ 5.5) per person due to limited access to working opportunities, causing higher food insecurity.Due to the approaching winter season lean season, under permission by the Centre for Aliens and Foreign Immigrants Affairs (CAFIA), of the Ministry of Interior, WFP doubled its cash support to all recipients in settlements for December 2024.
This additional allotment aimed to safeguard food security during the lean agriculture season and improve the purchasing power of refugees, offered restricted earnings opportunities.The winterization top-up, comparable to the standard cash privilege for December, was supplied to both male-headed and female-headed households.In December, 9,252 refugee school children including their instructors received day-to-day school treats including milk, date bars and/or fortified biscuits.By December 2024, WFP Iran helped ease the financial concern connected with the gluten-free dietary needs of 52 refugee celiac clients from WFPs beneficiaries by supplying them with an extra cash amount of 7.7 million rials (US$ 14.27) per individual as a replacement for their normal food entitlement.To support the income generation and durability of 312 refugees (51 percent females and 49 percent men), in December, WFP continued supporting the operations of 20 income activities across 17 settlements, consisting of welding, customizing, baking, and farming.Following WFPs Disability Inclusion Workplan 2023, WFP carried out a pilot effort in two settlements, Shahid Naseri of Markazi and Mohajerin of Semnan provinces, supplying refugees with impairments a month-to-month cash top-up of IRR 1.5 million (US$ 2.7) throughout 9 settlements, on top of their routine entitlement.In December, WFP scaled up its response by assisting an additional 10 refugee because November, reaching a total of 271 individuals.
This follows the program expansion in October, covering Kerman, Lorestan, West Azarbaijan, Fars, Khuzestan, Markazi, and Semnan provinces.WFP Irans Budget Revision of the Interim Country Strategic Plan (ICSP) was authorized in September, resulting in adjustments in the Needs Based Plan (NBP).
Due to evolving situations consisting of the suspension of 2 planned brand-new refugee settlements to accommodate displaced individuals from Afghanistan, the revision made changes as follows.
** Reduced the overall planned variety of recipients from 52,000 to 35,000.
** Extended the duration of ICSP by 2 years, now covering April 2023 to December 2027, aligning with the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (SDCF) duration.The overall ICSP budget plan has increased by USD 5.8 million, bringing it to USD 42.82 million, to account for these changes and the plans extended timeline.WFP figured out to support Iran in hosting refugeesMaysaa Alghribawy, the brand-new representative of the World Food Program (WFP) in Iran, has actually revealed the companies commitment to supporting Iran as one the greatest refugee hosting countries.Highlighting the difficulties faced by the WFP in the region, Alghribawy requested for enhancing cooperation and interactions with the nation to advance the companies efforts and obligations in Iran, along with the region, foreign ministry site reported.The official made the remarks on Sunday, January 12, in a conference with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, while providing her qualifications, and giving an account of this humanitarian companies programs and operations in food security.Araghchi, for his part, highlighted the significance of promoting collaborations saying that attending to humanitarian crisis, including refugees and migrants crisis, in West Asia requires local and global cooperation.MT/ MG