Djibouti Emergency Food Security Crisis Response Project

active

The Project component activities will be revised as follows:Component 1: Mitigating food security risks posed by food supply shocks (US$13.5 million). The objective of this component is to establish a system that would enable the GoD to mitigate risks related to food supply shocks in the future. From the planned activities, the project established a strategic food stock (equivalent to approximately one month of consumption) with its tools, including the creation of the Market Analysis Unit (MAU) at the Ministry of Commerce and Tourism (MCT) and the Stock Management Unit (SMU) at the Ministry of Social Affairs (MASS), both of which are operational. Due to a declaration by the Ministry of Agriculture regarding a severe drought currently affecting the inland regions, the Government proposes to increase (nearly double) the volume of the strategic stock and use part of this (about 20% of the stock) for food kit distribution to affected households. These activities will be funded using the SDR 3,925,000 (US$5 million equivalent) under the Food shortage preparedness fund. Component 2: Mitigating Food Security Risks Posed by Drought (US$5.0 million). The objective of this component is to mitigate the food security risks resulting from drought. As part of the planned activities, the project has acquired six water trucks, which have been distributed to the prefectures across each of the six regions, all of which are currently operational. Additionally, the first phase of rehabilitating water infrastructure (50 out of the 76 planned) has commenced, and preparations are underway for distributing the seeds and fertilizers acquired by the project. However, the initially planned activities related to the rehabilitation of the remaining 26 infrastructures, acquisition of agricultural equipment and greenhouses, procurement of small ruminants, and establishment of an early warning system have to be cancelled as they cannot be realized by the upcoming Project closing date of December 2025.Component 3: Project management and Preparedness Plan (US$1.5 million). Activities of component 3 remain unchanged. The project has prepared the Food Security Preparedness Plan, a legal requirement for the country receiving financial support from the Early Response Financing modality of the World Bank’s Crisis Response Window as part of the Emergency Food Security Crisis Response Project (P178988). The draft Plan was reviewed/cleared by the World Bank, and currently the Project is in the process of organizing the workshop to share the final draft of the Plan.