West Africa Ebola Outbreak Update on WFP West

West Africa Ebola Outbreak Update on WFP West Africa Ebola Response Presentation to the regional FSNWG Dakar, 30 October 2014

Framework of Interventions 3 pillars of WFP support: 1. Delivering food alongside the health response; 2. Ensuring the movement of partner staff and materials; and 3. Providing common services and infrastructure support for health partners. § EMOP (Regional) 200761– Support to Populations in Areas Affected by the Ebola Outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. LICK TO EDIT SUBTITLE § SO (Regional) 200773– Logistics Common Services for the Humanitarian Community’s Response to the Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in West Africa. under the United Nations umbrella and to provide essential support of UNMEER efforts to stop the spread of Ebola

Scale up under the EMOP Beneficiairies Assisted Over 1 million people assisted so far - Communities in areas of widespread and intense transmission - Ebola patients in treatment - Survivors discharged from Treatment 600000 500000 400000 300000 200000 Guinea: - Plan, Catholic Relief Service, Espoir Santé 100000 0 1 -14 Sept 15 -28 Sept Guinea Liberia 29 -12 Oct 13 -26 Oct Sierra Leone 14000 12000 PROGRAMMING 10000 8000 6000 4000 2000 0 1 -14 Sept 15 -28 Sept Guinea 29 -12 Oct Liberia Sierra Leone LICK TO EDIT SUBTITLE Total tonnage dispatched 13 -26 Oct Liberia: - Caritas (Monrovia/Capamas/Gbarnga), Liberian Islamic Union for Reconstruction and Development, ADRA, Liberian Red Cross, Liberian Agency for Community Empowerment, and Liberia Agency for Community Development Sierra Leone: - Ministry of Health and Sanitization, Sierra Leone Red Cross, CIDO, MSF, World Vision, YMCA, Caritas Sierra Leone

Adapting our response as we move forward in a unprecedented and unique operating environment • Ebola-specific distributions and nutrition guidelines; • Modalities of distributions in dense urban settings; • Rapid response teams; LICK TO EDIT SUBTITLE PROGRAMMING Scale up under the EMOP • Mobile and large scale response to the three-day House to House sensitization campaign;

• Volatile security situation; • Unique operating environment; • Limited number of cooperating partners for the EMOP and high demands on the ones present on the ground; • Access constraints (heavy rains, road conditions…); LICK TO EDIT SUBTITLE PROGRAMMING Challenges • Lack of transport capacity and of lights vehicles (for example to distribute to Community Care Centres); • Coordination and information-sharing with the various actors and hubs.

• FAO/WFP Rapid Food security assessments completed or ongoing in the three countries to understand the impact of Ebola on food security. o Preliminary results available for Sierra Leone and Liberia LICK TO EDIT SUBTITLE • m. VAM: Remote tracking of food security indicators to monitor trends o First round completed in Sierra Leone and in Guinea, ongoing in Liberia (via SMS or interactive voice response); o Second round ongoing in Sierra Leone; PROGRAMMING FOOD SECURITY ANALYSIS Food security analysis under the EMOP • Market and Price Monitoring • FAO/WFP CFSAM (Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission) ongoing (Secondary data analysis)

• In September 2014, WFP started conducting remote food security surveys in the Ebola-affected countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia through mobile phone surveys. • The m. VAM (mobile Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping) text message (SMS) and interactive voice response (IVR) surveys are sent to a panel of households in the Ebola-affected areas of each country. • Respondents are asked to respond to a short series of questions on coping strategies used, food availability and prices. • WFP’s approach to remote data collection for food security surveys is backed up by two years of documented evidence. • When interpreting the data, readers are cautioned to note that mobile surveys will skew towards better-off households in urban areas. LICK TO EDIT SUBTITLE FOOD SECURITY ANALYSIS: m. VAM remote food security monitoring • SMS surveys will not replace the need for on-the-ground emergency assessments, particularly for targeting and response design. To download m. VAM data on the ebola-affected countries, please visit: http: //vam. wfp. org/sites/mvam_monitoring/index. html

Sierra Leone: September 2014 - Higher coping in the Ebola-affected districts of Kailahun and Kenema § People living in the districts of Kailahun and Kenema are using more severe food coping strategies more frequently, compared to people in other areas of the country. These are the areas where most EVD cases have been reported since the start of the outbreak. According to the 2010 Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis, households in Kailahun and Kenema were less likely to be food insecure than in other parts of Sierra Leone. § Low casual wage prices in the east appear to be driving down people’s food purchasing power. This may be one reason why food coping levels are higher in that part of the country. § As the main annual harvest starts, staple food prices in the east are not showing serious anomalies compared to other regions of the country. Price trends will continue to be monitored in subsequent months. LICK TO EDIT SUBTITLE FOOD SECURITY ANALYSIS: m. VAM: First round results

Guinea: October 2014 - Higher Levels of Food-Related Coping Strategies in Guinea § The Reduced Coping Strategies Index (r. CSI) is particularly high in Forest Guinea, the part of the country that has been most affected by the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Households are using more severe coping strategies, leading to a food security situation that is more precarious than in the rest of the country. According to surveys conducted before the crisis, this area already had a high prevalence of food insecurity. LICK TO EDIT SUBTITLE FOOD SECURITY ANALYSIS: m. VAM: First round results § Casual labour rates are lower in Nzerekore than in other regions. Limited market access to trade agricultural products could further reduce the demand for unskilled labour during the harvest period.

The Way Forward • Expanding on good practices to continue to scale up food distributions; • Deploying additional staff for the scale up of food and logistics response. LICK TO EDIT SUBTITLE • Reviewing EMOP requirements to integrate food security pillar alongside support to medical response, based on results of m. VAM, market analysis and food security assessments; • Developing an outcome monitoring system that enables remote data collection through phone calls to beneficiaries on their food consumption patterns, diet diversity, coping strategies, gender and protection