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Egypt Response Plan 2018
STRATEGIC VISION & RESPONSE PLAN
The objectives for the basic needs and livelihoods programmes:
1. Assistance to the most vulnerable provided to meet basic needs.
2. Self-reliance and safe livelihoods are improved.
The focus will remain on the provision of support to refugees with the most socio-economical and protection
related vulnerabilities. These refugees will be supported with unconditional cash grants and monthly food
vouchers, supplemented where appropriate with conditional grants for education, as well as maternal and child
health services.
In terms of basic needs, refugees will continue to be
supported with multi-purpose unconditional cash,
including for unaccompanied children, and seasonal
cash grants. This in addition to the promotional education
and reproductive health grants. To date, funding has
only allowed for the provision of cash grants based on
the calculation of a monthly basket of recurrent non-
food items (i.e., rent, transportation, communication,
hygiene). To ensure that individual food and nutritional
needs are more effectively met, funding will be sought to
provide a top-up of the cash grant. Also, depending on
the available funding, UNHCR and U NICEF plan to jointly
provide winterization support to the most vulnerable.
WFP plans to provide 20,000 vulnerable refugees
and asylum-seekers with food assistance in the form
of a monthly food voucher of approximately USD
22 (periodically adjusted to prevailing market prices
and exchange rate). This amount is equivalent to 400
EGP and in line with the current national minimum
expenditure basket. Refugees and asylum-seekers
will be able to redeem their food assistance in over
50 selected contracted supermarkets located in areas
where most refugees are residing. Targeting will be
based on vulnerability indicators resulting from periodic
socio-economic food security vulnerability assessments.
Similar to other interventions, the provision of food
assistance depends on the level of available donor
contributions.
The voucher scheme helps to restore a sense of normalcy
and dignity to the lives of refugees and asylum-seekers
by allowing them to purchase foods of their choice
and thereby meet their individual consumption and
nutritional needs more effectively. Given these benefits,
the geographic spread of refugees in urban areas and
Egypt’s existing infrastructure and functioning local
markets, food vouchers were adopted as the primary
modality of WFP assistance.
In addition, WFP’s nutrition assistance for pregnant and
lactating women will be implemented in consultation
with national health counterparts and collaboration with
selected private clinic operators through the provision
of conditional value vouchers for the value of 22 USD
(400 EGP) to purchase locally produced high energy
food items. Entitlements for assistance will be tied to
regular primary healthcare visits with a view to improving
nutrition and levels of pre-antenatal care.
The livelihoods programmes in 2018 will concentrate
on skills development, entrepreneurship and improving
access to wage employment. A well-rounded approach
is required to facilitate work opportunities that consider
decency and protection. In addition, UNHCR plans to
collect recent information on the African, Yemeni and
Iraqi population to inform better programming.
The wage employment track will focus on building
skills that are demanded in the labour market and on
facilitating refugees’ and asylum-seekers’ access to
jobs. Legally registered employers and employment
agencies will be profiled, and those who demonstrate
perspectives for decent employment will be linked to
job seekers from Africa, Yemen, and Iraq. Interventions
in specific sectors, such as food processing and
the domestic work sector, will be extended within a
protection framework. Salary subsidies and six-month
on-the-job training and apprenticeship programmes will
also be provided, to help people gain experience and
increase employability.
Livelihood partners will also continue to support
refugees in starting their own businesses and
provide training and business development services
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