Namibia PDNA 2009 - GFDRR
Namibia PDNA 2009 - GFDRR
Namibia PDNA 2009 - GFDRR
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The total amount of food commodities distributed by FEMCO is shown in Table 95.<br />
Table 95: Total food distribution by FEMCO<br />
Food commodity number unit Total units<br />
Maize meal 10 Kg 4,875<br />
Maize meal 5 Kg 456<br />
Cooking oil 20 Litres 70<br />
Cooking oil 500 Ml 863<br />
Cooking oil 750 Ml 473<br />
Cooking oil 1 Litre 435<br />
Cooking oil 375 Ml 13,230<br />
Salt 1 Package 400<br />
Sugar 2 Kg 351<br />
Sugar 1 Kg 1,250<br />
T/beans 1 Tin 2,136<br />
T/fish 1 Tin 2,046<br />
Maize meal 2.5 Kg 1,063<br />
Rice 2 Kg 520<br />
Bread 1 Piece 200<br />
Biscuits 1 Package 600<br />
Nutritional powder 1 Tin 160<br />
Source: Flood Emergency Management Coordination Office (FEMCO)<br />
According to the data provided by FEMCO, the distribution of the 5,013 bags of 10 kg maize meal available for food relief would<br />
have benefited approximately 2,551 households that would have received a ration of 2 bags (20 kilos) for 2 months. The figure of<br />
2,551 households represents approximately 12 percent of the population in need of food assistance quantified by FEMCO, a total of<br />
86,263 people.<br />
The Directorate of Disaster Risk Management at office of the Prime Minister has responded to the floods and the food needs<br />
providing assistance with an extension of the “Drought Food Relief Scheme”, also referred to as the now renamed as “Comprehensive<br />
Food Distribution Scheme”.<br />
This scheme was planned to last until March <strong>2009</strong> assisting a total of 523,000 people (26 %) of the <strong>Namibia</strong>n population considered<br />
to be food insecure from August 2008 to April <strong>2009</strong> (Directorate Emergency Management Register for food insecure people, 2008).<br />
Assistance was provided in the regions of Caprivi, Erongo, Hardap, Karas, Kavango, Khomas, Kunene, Ohangwen, Omaheke, Omusati,<br />
Oshana, Oshikoto and Otjozondjupa and had an estimated cost of N$280 million. The planned food ration is presented in the Table<br />
below.<br />
Table 96: DDRM Drought Food Relief Scheme planned food ration<br />
Food commodity unit Ration<br />
Dried fish tin of 425 grams 12 per month<br />
Maize meal bag of 12.5 kg 2 per month<br />
Maize grain bag of 25 kg 1 per month<br />
Vegetable oil bottle of 750 ml 2 per month<br />
Source: DDRM.<br />
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