Under the CSP, WFP aims to improve market access for 250,000 smallholder farmers while overseeing a multi-sector nutrition programme for 185,000 pregnant and nursing women and children under two, and providing food assistance to over 300,000 refugees.

"The development of WFP's new Country Strategic Plan provides the Government with the opportunity to identify priority areas where, together with our partners, we can reduce the impact of shocks to vulnerable populations so they become more resilient and more food secure," says Brigadier General Mbaazi Msuya, Director of Disaster Management in the Prime Minister's Office.

WFP focuses specifically on two of the 17 globally-adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): SDG2 - Zero Hunger - and SDG17 - Partnerships for the Goals. SDG2 aims to eradicate hunger by the year 2030 while SDG 17 promotes partnerships, both public and private.

Read more from the UN World Food Programme here.