What is the Food Security Sector?
Priority Needs
By jeopardizing households’ purchasing power, food production and supply chains, as well as national response capacities, the COVID-19 pandemic significantly increased food insecurity. Across Latin America and the Caribbean – the region that incurred the highest relative increase of people in severe food insecurity, from 4.3 million in 2019 to 17.1 million by August 2020 – refugees and migrants from Venezuela are among those most affected, particularly women, including female-headed households and children.
With their income highly dependent on livelihoods tied to the informal sector and/or remittances, having access to a more limited local support network and being largely excluded from underfunded national safety nets, Venezuelan refugees and migrants saw their food security status deteriorate since the pandemic began.
The state of food security among refugees and migrants, combined with the particularly diverse nutritional needs of children, pregnant and lactating women, girls and the elderly in all household types, represent the main challenge for the Sector.
Response Strategy
Regional activities will focus on strengthening sectoral coordination and information management to fill gaps between R4V partners in harmonized planning, food security assessments, monitoring and reporting, as well as resource mobilization and advocacy, with gender-sensitive response targeting and programme design.
A response spanning expanded programmatic approaches
The acute food security needs caused by losses of income and access to basic services during the pandemic – particularly among women and children – have prompted partners to increase initiatives targeting immediate and urgent food needs in a gender- and age-responsive manner. Other activities will seek to address the quality of diet among refugees and migrants. Finally, partners will seek to facilitate the inclusion of refugees and migrants in existing social protection programmes via pilot projects, advocacy efforts and technical assistance.
A response prioritizing cash and voucher assistance
The RMRP 2021 budget for food security activities prioritizes cash and voucher assistance (CVA), aiming to maximize the welfare of beneficiaries and accommodate their consumption preferences.
Documents
SITREP Septiembre 2021 - Cono Sur
Resumen de las actividades implementadas por los socios R4V en el Cono Sur para el mes de Septiembre de 2021
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GIFMM Colombia: Evaluación Conjunta de Necesidades - Piloto en Norte de Santander | 2021
Este informe hace referencia al piloto del levantamiento de información presencial realizado por el Grupo Interagencial sobre Flujos Migratorios Mixtos (GIFMM) en asentamientos informales ubicados en los municipios de Cúcuta y Los Patios, en el departamento de Norte de Santander. Las encuestas fueron llevadas a cabo entre el 1 y el 3 de diciembre de 2020 a la población refugiada y migrante que vive en los asentamientos de Valle de la Vega y Alto Viento, y tuvo como objetivo caracterizar a la población que ha llegado a estos lugares, y conocer sus necesidades principales, todo bajo el contexto de la emergencia sanitaria por COVID-19.
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GIFMM Colombia: Evaluación Conjunta de Necesidades | Junio 2021
Este informe hace referencia a la quinta ronda de evaluación conjunta de necesidades del Grupo Interagencial sobre Flujos Migratorios Mixtos (GIFMM), realizada bajo el contexto del COVID-19 en Colombia durante junio de 2021, en el cual se dan a conocer los resultados y la metodología utilizada. La quinta ronda buscó conocer: i) cuáles son los niveles de acceso y disponibilidad a bienes y servicios básicos de parte de los hogares y sus problemas para acceder a ellos, ii) cómo han evolucionado las condiciones de vida y iii) cuáles son las prioridades de la población, con miras a establecer una línea base que informe la respuesta de cara al 2022.
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RMRP 2021 Mid-Year Report
Report on progress made by R4V partners from January to June implementing the RMRP 2021, including people reached per sector and national and sub-regional platform, as well as areas of critical under-funding affecting the response for refugees and migrants from Venezuela.
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SITREP August RMRP 2021 - Southern Cone
Situation report of the acitvities implemented on August 2021 by R4V partners across Southern Cone
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Situación nutricional de las niñas y niños refugiados y migrantes venezolanos en el Perú
El presente documento es la presentación que fue utilizada en el evento virtual realizado sobre la situación nutricional de niñas y niños refugiados y migrantes en el Perú. En dicho conversatorio se socializó y reflexionó sobre la situación nutricional de los menores de 5 años de Venezuela que se encuentran en nuestro país y que accedieron a los servicios de salud durante el año 2020. El conversatorio contó con la colaboración de Acción contra el Hambre, el Instituto Nacional de Salud del Ministerio de Salud y la Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones.
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GIFMM Colombia: Summary - Joint Needs Assessment - Round 1 | 2021
Summary of results of the Joint Needs Assessment during the first half of 2021, developed by 20 GIFMM partners on the situation and needs of refugees and migrants in Colombia.
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SITREP JULY 2021
Situation report of the acitvities implemented on July 2021 by R4V partners across Southern Cone
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