Food Security Cluster

Announcement & Invitation

All groups working in food distribution were invited to a Food Distribution Coordination Meeting, August 18, 2020, 8pm-9pm, on zoom, organized in collaboration with Beirut Relief Coalition (including many NGOs), Uniting Lebanon Coalition (including many NGOs), Re-Create Beirut, LiveLove, and others. Key speakers were Malak Jaafar, representative from WFP, the food security cluster lead for Lebanon, and Alex Salha, food sector lead from LHDF (Lebanon Humanitarian & Development Forum and Fair Trade Lebanon). See the meeting summary and full notes here. Additional calls will be organized soon.

Food Sector Groups (please add or update groups)

UN OCHA Emergency Operations Cluster Contact: (WFP, World Food Program), Food Security Coordination Team (fsc_lebanon [at] wfp.org); WFP Sector Coordinator Brian Wei (brian.wei [at] wfp.org); Malak Jaafar, WFP communications team (malak.jaafar [at] wfp.org).

LHDF Food Sector Contact: Alexandre Salha (Fair Trade Lebanon, a.salha [1t] fairtradelebanon.org, +961 3 540 091).