Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Low funding (9% of interventions currently funded)

• Low availability and quality of data on DHIS 2 

• Fewer new nutrition projects in the first semester of 2021. Many projects started in October 2020 due to a delay in the release of the standard allocation and delays in donor funding. As a result, few projects were developed in the first half of 2021.

• Challenges with intersectoral collaboration and programming (ISCP) with three clusters (WASH, FSL, HEALTH) notably due to:

  • Staff turnover in the clusters, meaning new staff had to be retrained (namely on what is ISCP? Where are we at? What remains to be done?)

  • Difficulty in bringing together the 4 clusters at the same time

  • Conflicting deadlines and schedules

• Challenges with therapeutic food management including fraud and the time needed to bring supplies into the country (3 to 6 months), customs blockages and variable customs fees

• Challenges with IYCF-E indicators and monitoring including: 

  • Double counting

  • Number reached in non-HRP health zones taken into account

  • Capping target for HRP

  • Unit cost not in line with reality

• In terms of planning, all health zones are included in reached but in the HRP only select health zones are targeted