WFP team recommends continued expansion

A WFP team, which conducted a mid-term review of that agency’s Great Lakes regional protracted relief and recovery operation (PRRO), recently recommended continuation of the expansion phase in all the four countries involved. In its weekly emergency update, WFP said the team, the mandate of which was to assess progress and recommend a future course of action, visited Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. It recommended the expansion of the protracted relief (nutritional support activities and targeted feeding, protracted refugee feeding), general distribution, selective feeding and support to refugee-affected areas. The expansion would also include recovery - food-for-work in agricultural recovery, basic infrastructure and seed protection projects. They recommended that the flexibility of response within the regional approach should be retained.