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26 March 2024


FOOD ASSISTANCE TO REFUGEES IN CAMEROON AT RISK OF HALT AMID FUNDING SHORTAGES

YAOUNDE – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Refugee
Agency (UNHCR) are today warning that vital food assistance to refugees in
Cameroon’s Far North, Adamawa, East and North regions is at risk of grinding to
a halt due to funding shortfalls.

Funding shortfalls had already forced WFP to cut rations for refugees to 50
percent in the Far North, Adamawa, East and North regions of Cameroon and to
distribute incomplete food baskets since end 2023, missing some items such as
pulses, vegetable oil and salt. These measures are already exposing the refugee
communities to higher vulnerability and limiting their access to diverse and
nutritious meals.  

““Without immediate support we will have no option but to further cut the
already meagre portions on refugees’ plates, with all the devastating impacts
this will bring including rising malnutrition and hunger, exposure to protection
risks and families resorting to desperate strategies to cope, including pulling
children out of school and eating less food – affecting especially women and
children,” said Wanja Kaaria, WFP Representative and Country Director in
Cameroon.

“We are grateful for generous donor funding in Cameroon and we are hopeful that
donors will step up and help address our funding gaps, helping us to avoid
further cuts to those who have already lost everything due to conflict, violence
and natural disasters,” she added.

WFP requires US$ 23.1 million to assist to over 222,000 refugees from Nigeria
and the Central African Republic (CAR) currently hosted in Cameroon, funding
that will ensure the life-saving humanitarian assistance can continue through
December 2024.

Most refugee families rely on WFP food assistance to survive. WFP food
assistance has already been re-prioritized to the focus on the most vulnerable
people, of whom the majority are women, female-headed households, elderly
persons, persons with disability, and unaccompanied children.

“The food ration cut is a forecast of the escalating protection crises in
Cameroon which is now affecting the most basic human right of the forcibly
displaced people in the country - the right to food. We are deeply concerned
that further ration cuts may disrupt the existing social cohesion as we received
reports of the outcry of the refugee communities.  Thus, we appeal to donor
governments to support refugees in accessing the much-needed food and remain
healthy,” said UNHCR Representative to Cameroon, Olivier Guillaume Beer.

For over a decade, Cameroon has faced three complex, intertwined, and protracted
humanitarian crises that have remained largely underfunded. As of December 2023,
4.7 million people needed humanitarian assistance, with over two million on the
move as refugees, internally displaced people and returnees.

Food insecurity in the country affects 2.5 million people, according to the
November 2023 Cadre Harmonisé analysis. These figures represent some of the
highest rates of food insecurity recorded in the country, affecting refugees,
internally displaced people and host communities, with nearly 75 percent of the
severely food insecure people located in crisis-affected regions.

Alarming rates of acute malnutrition and stunting in children under 5 are also
reported among refugee communities. Wasting rates vary between 10 percent among
those living outside of camps in the North and 17.4 percent in the Adamawa and
East campsites, above the emergency thresholds of 10 and 15 percent (SMART/SENS,
2022).

But the US$ 371.4 million humanitarian response plan for 2024 is only 5 percent
funded as of February 2024. The situation was no better in 2023 when the plan
was only 28 percent funded.

While the Government of Cameroon is making every effort to address the
humanitarian situation, there is an urgent need for additional support to meet
the immediate food and nutrition needs of crisis-affected families in Cameroon.

WFP and UNHCR remain committed to working with the government, donors and
partners to continue providing food and nutrition assistance to vulnerable
communities including refugees and internally displaced persons, helping them
meet their basic needs, and rebuild their lives and livelihoods through longer
term solutions to achieve self-reliance.

 

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About UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, leads international protection and search for
durable solutions on behalf of people forced to flee because of conflict and
persecution. We deliver life-saving assistance like shelter, food and water;
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TOPICS

Cameroon Refugees and migration Funding


CONTACT

For more information please contact:

Christopher Katete, WFP/ Cameroon,

Mob +237 697 75 26 68



Djaounsede Madjiangar,

WFP/ Dakar, Mob. +221 77 639 42 71

Daena Neto, UNHCR/Cameroon,

Mob. +237 690 48 43 25

Alpha Seydi Ba, UNHCR/Dakar,

Mob. +221 77 345 74 54


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