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

2. CLICK TO EDIT SUBTITLE 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.  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 Framework of Interventions

3. CLICK TO EDIT SUBTITLE Scale up under the EMOP PROGRAMMING Over 1 million people assisted so far -Communities in areas of widespread and intense transmission -Ebola patients in treatment -Survivors discharged from Treatment Guinea: - Plan, Catholic Relief Service, Espoir Santé 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

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

5. CLICK TO EDIT SUBTITLE Challenges 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…); 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. PROGRAMMING

6. CLICK TO EDIT SUBTITLE Food security analysis under the EMOP PROGRAMMING 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 mVAM: 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; Market and Price Monitoring FAO/WFP CFSAM (Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission) ongoing (Secondary data analysis) FOOD SECURITY ANALYSIS

7. CLICK TO EDIT SUBTITLE mVAM remote food security monitoring 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 mVAM (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. SMS surveys will not replace the need for on-the-ground emergency assessments, particularly for targeting and response design. To download mVAM data on the ebola-affected countries, please visit: http://vam.wfp.org/sites/mvam_monitoring/index.html http://vam.wfp.org/sites/mvam_monitoring/index.html FOOD SECURITY ANALYSIS: mVAM

8. CLICK TO EDIT SUBTITLE mVAM: First round results 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. FOOD SECURITY ANALYSIS: mVAM

9. CLICK TO EDIT SUBTITLE mVAM: First round results Guinea: October 2014 - Higher Levels of Food-Related Coping Strategies in Guinea  The Reduced Coping Strategies Index (rCSI) 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.  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. FOOD SECURITY ANALYSIS: mVAM

10. CLICK TO EDIT SUBTITLE 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. Reviewing EMOP requirements to integrate food security pillar alongside support to medical response, based on results of mVAM, 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