World Food Daily Situation Report Programme 18 August 2005

1. HIGHLIGHTS

No new contributions have been confirmed for the Niger operation since the 11 August.

The current shortfall of WFP’s operation is 32.8 million US dollars, corresponding to 42,564 metric tonnes of food.

2. SECURITY

No security incidents to report. The country of Niger is under security phase 0, with the exception of region which is under phase 1.

3. OPERATIONAL ISSUES

Full radio services (VHF and HF) with a radio room are now operational in Maradi as well as and . The LAN team has completed installation in the Maradi office and is moving to Zinder today. Electical stabilizers have been installed in Maradi.

VSAT installation will be completed in Maradi today and then the team will move on to Zinder and Tahoua. The VSAT equipment has already arrived in Tahoua and Zinder.

The Heads of Sub-Office (HSO) of Maradi and Zinder are now in place and the HSO for Tahoua will take up his position on Friday. The fourth Head of Sub-Office will arrive in Niger on Friday. A Field Coordinator is now based in to support the Heads of Sub-Office.

4. PROGRAMMING ISSUES

4.1 Target populations/beneficiaries

The Government’s National Early Warning system, has added around 20,000 people in the region of Agadez to the number of people in urgent need of food aid. The total number now is 2.7 million. The National Food Security Mechanism (DNPGCA1) will cover these new additions by their own pipeline.

In order to reach all 2.7 million people as urgently as possible, the DNPGCA, WFP and the NGOs Plan International and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) are coordinating their pipelines and a jointly designed distribution plan has been elaborated.

The coordinated distribution plan itself is a database from which information on distribution locations, partners, tonnage and beneficiaries can easily be manipulated and extracted. The distribution plan has information down to the village level- for the more than 2,500 villages that will receive food from all four pipelines involved. An overview of the distribution plan is given below with the different coordinated pipelines and the Cooperating Partners who will help distribute WFP food.

For the first round of general distributions, WFP food will reach 1.89 million beneficiaries and the rest will be covered by the DNPGCA, PLAN International and CRS pipelines. In September, WFP will conduct a second distribution to the 1.7 million most food insecure beneficiaries.

1 Dispositif National de Prévention et de Gestion des Crises Alimentaires- an institutional mechanism made up of the Government, donors and UN agencies responsible for the management of the national reserves of food and cash.

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1st Round Distribution Plan Regions of Beneficiarie Pipeline Cooperating Partners intervention s MTs , Maradi, CARE 817,751 13,677 Tahoua IFRC Agadez, Tillaberi 238,511 3,993 PDR/ADM Tahoua 192,389 3,274 World Vision Maradi, Zinder 163,765 2,807 (VSF Belgium)2 GOAL Zinder 124,061 2,038 WFP Dosso, Tillaberi, CRS 121,695 1,999 Zinder HELP Tillaberi 89,304 1,521 ABC Ecologie Tillaberi 67,925 1,164 (Humedica)3 Caritas Dosso, Tillaberi 45,650 761 Africare Agadez 28,501 489 WFP subtotal 1,889,552 31,723 PLAN PLAN International Tillaberi 101,507 1,450 International DNPGCA CSR/SAP4 All regions 649,536 9,265

DNPGCA and 5 Zinder zone CSR/SAP and CRS 11,434 163 CRS (Ollelewa zone) Catholic Relief CRS Dosso, Zinder 46,962 671 Services (CRS) TOTAL 2,698,991 43,274

Selective Feeding WFP and UNICEF are collaborating on the design of a ‘protection ration’ for children in supplementary feeding programmes who are living with their families (not staying at a therapeutic feeding center). The severely and moderately malnourished children would be fed with therapeutic food provided by UNICEF while WFP would provide a ration of CSB to the family thereby lessening the pressure to share the malnourished child’s therapeutic ration with the rest of the family.

4.2 Food Distributions

1st Round General Distributions Distributions by HELP in Tillaberi, World Vision in Maradi and Zinder, ABC Ecologie in Tillaberi and PDR/ADM in Tahoua are ongoing. GOAL will begin distributions in Zinder on Friday, 19 August. IFRC will also begin distributions this week in Tillaberi.

World Vision International (WVI) in Maradi report that they began food distributions on 10 August and completed the first round in Guidan Roumji whereby 110 MTs of food was distributed to 6,405 beneficiaries. WVI intends to carry out distributions in Birni Labe zone in the Department of from 17 to 22 August.

2 World Vision is collaborating with VSF Belgium on distributions in the region of Maradi. 3 ABC Ecologie, a local NGO, is receiving logistics support for distributions from German NGO Humedica. 4 Comite Sous Régional de Système Alerte de Précoce. These field offices of the National Early Warning System will conduct the distributions for the DNPGCA, with the support of the local NGO Projet. 5 The DNPGCA and Catholic Relief Services will both handle distributions in the zone of Ollelewa. The breakdown by villages in under discussion.

2 EMOP Dispatches to Partners (Metric Tonnes) Sub-Office 17-Aug Total EMOP Maradi 40 1,987 Niamey 69 1,654 Tahoua 253 1,396 Zinder 0 1,111 TOTAL 362 6,148

In order to begin distributions while the Field Level Agreements (FLA) are begin finalized, WFP has signed Letters of Understanding (LoU) with partners.

As of 15 August, the DNPGCA announced that it had received a total of 9,331 MTs of cereals and of this quantity, it has already dispatched 6,111 MTs. The distributions committees will begin distributing this week.

5. RESOURCING AND PIPELINE

Niger EMOP 10398.0 requires a total of 57.6 million US dollars. Overall, the operation is 43% funded, having received 24.8 million US dollars in contributions. The current shortfall is 32.8 million US dollars, corresponding to 42,564 metric tonnes of food. No new contributions have been received since the 11 August.

No new contributions have been confirmed for the Niger operation since the 11 August, more than a week ago.

6. LOGISTICS

The CO is finalizing transport contracts for the moving of food from EDPs (Niamey, Maradi, Tahoua, Zinder) to dispatch villages. These transport contracts will only concern distributions in partnership with CRS, Caritas and CARE as the other CPs will pick up the food from WFP’s warehouses themselves.

The Special Operation for a WFP humanitarian air service (passenger service) in Niger has been approved by headquarters. This service would operate for a short period (September/October) to facilitate the travel of humanitarian staff between Niamey and the field. The Beechcraft 200 will arrive in Niamey on 19 August.

The airlift of 950 MTs of CSB from Italy continues with 100 MTs arriving tonight, 18 August, 100 MTs on Monday, 22 August and the final 100 MTs arriving on Tuesday, 23 August.

Niger Emop 10398.0 16 August 2005 Cereals Oil Pulses CSB HEB Total Stocks 3394 359 856 337 7 4953

7. COORDINATION/EXTERNAL RELATIONS

On Friday, 19 August, WFP will host the next coordination meeting for all Cooperating Partners on the general emergency distributions. These meetings will take place each week between WFP, the Government’s Cellule Crises Alimentaires and NGO Cooperating Partners.

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