Among some participants, this was often believed to be further complicated by the use of khat, a local plant that is chewed for its stimulant effects, for which family's rations or financial assistance were sometimes used by the husbands, resulting in financial disparities and family dispute.
Now the big government donors are telling U.N.H.C.R. that they can't fully finance the program, and the organization is cutting back the food ration and the medical assistance.
These recent wars are so different: communications are vastly improved, more efficient, and disturbingly fast; weapons, vehicles of all sorts, and even rations have evolved; medical assistance and new technologies have saved lives but left individuals and families with terrifying challenges; multiple tours with prolonged separations are common.
-Somali GBV survivor, Addis Ababa As demonstrated in previous quotations, domestic violence was often linked to tension around financial assistance and rations provided to refugee families.
Seven clusters received only Food Assistance (FA) rations consisting of staple foods (sorghum, legumes, palm oil, sugar and salt, approx. 1,800 kcal [ 18]) without a fortified blended food such as CSB, and 7 received FA with additional provision of RUSF FAA + RUSF).
The World Food Program immediately placed 5,500 Jamaicans on complementary food assistance, a daily ration of 1900 kJ (450 kcal) of High Energy Biscuits, for two weeks.
In addition, WFP is providing food rations, and UNHCR is providing other assistance.
The government pays salaries and, with assistance from the Wildlife Conservation Society, provides rations, equipment and training.
Her family decided to risk returning home, taking with them the hygiene items provided by UNICEF, food rations from the World Food Programme (WFP), and other assistance from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
The secretary of state announced at a conference in Rome in late February that the United States would provide nonlethal assistance, specifically medical supplies and food rations, to the armed Syrian opposition.
