| Post date | Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 09:00 |
The Food Security Cluster in Ukraine was established on 23 December 2014 to coordinate the assistance to the most vulnerable people affected by the crisis.
Building on the achievements and lessons learned in 2014, the Food Security Cluster will continue to engage its partners, advocating for improved coordination, information flow and rationalized targeting across crisis-affected areas. The cluster ensures that appropriate assistance is provided in a timely and efficient manner in order to meet the food needs of the affected people through a mix of locally-purchased food and cash and vouchers transfers.
The cluster members will be engaged in participatory locally-based approaches to ensure that those most in need are being targeted, primarily the most vulnerable population groups amongst IDPs, returnees in safe areas, host communities and the local population in conflict hotspots, primarily across the five regions in the eastern part of the country.
In February 2015, the clusters and the HCT in Ukraine undertook a “light” revision of the Strategic Response Plan (SRP) to focus more on “lifesavings” activities. The SRP was then renamed as Humanitarian Response Plan and was launched on 24 February 2015. In the HRP cluster partners will aim at assisting up to 500,000 people.
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Photo: Distribution of WFP food parcels by PIN to Spartak people. Photo credit: PIN.