Our Staff Writer
12 January 2009
Addis Abeba — The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) last week donated vehicles and office equipment worth of US$241,000 to regional government offices in Ethiopia.
The handing over of the donation which took place at WFP warehouse in Addis Ababa, includes six four-wheels drive vehicles, 34 motorbikes, 11 computers, three photocopiers and other equipment for seven regional government 'partners' namely the Amhara, Afar, Gambella, Oromiya, SNNPR, Somali, and Tigray Regional states, according to a statement from the UN agency.
The vehicles and office equipment have been purchased in order to assist the implementation of the Targeted Supplementary Food (TSF) programme by regional government bodies and in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the respective regional government and WFP said the statement.
Lunched in 2004, the enhanced outreach Strategy/Targeted Supplementary Food Child Survival (EOS/TSF) is a joint operation with the Ministry of Health, regional Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Bureaus (DPPB) and UNICEF to provide nutrition fortified blended food and vegetable oil for moderately malnourished children under five years, pregnant and lactating women, the statement noted.
"We have proved that timely food supplementations have life saving potential for malnourished children and mothers and this is why we are building the capacity of our government partners to ensure the effective implementation of this programme," Miguel Barreto, WFP's Acting Country Director in Ethiopia said in the statement.
"We would not have been able to purchase these vehicles and equipment with out the generous support of many donors" he added.
Since 2004, WFP has donated vehicles and office equipment worth more than USD 1.2 million to ten regional government partners to enhance their capacity to implement the programme, which is aimed mainly at addressing the critical supplementary food needs of acutely malnourished children and mothers as well as serving as a preventive mechanism to avoid severe malnutrition.
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