Standard Project Report 2016
Project Type Cereals Oil Pulses Mix Other Total
Single Country IR-EMOP
Single Country PRRO
Total Food Distributed in 2016
464 34 32- 2 533
54,082 7,698 6,687 1,439 462 70,367
57,810 7,974 6,902 1,444 477 74,607
Cash Based Transfer and Commodity Voucher Distribution( USD)
Project Type Cash Value Voucher Commodity Voucher
Single Country EMOP 143,878--
Single Country PRRO- 6,140,637-
Total Distributed in 2016 143,878 6,140,637-
Supply Chain
As a result of WFP ' s decision to use fortified wheat flour instead of grain in all food baskets, the amount of fortified wheat flour purchased locally increased significantly in 2016, thus increasing market supply demand from local smallholders and sellers. This increase was achieved by maintaining a commercial partnership with a national network of mills in Kabul, Herat, Jalalabad and Mazar-e-Sharif, developed to provide a stimulus to an important sector of the national economy.
WFP procured the majority of the food locally, mainly fortified wheat flour which represented 69 percent of the food basket in 2016, while 29 percent of food received in the country came from in-kind contributions or purchases from international markets. Only 2 percent was purchased regionally from Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. Local purchases enabled WFP to respond to critical programme needs and winter pre-positioning with cost-effective purchases and short lead times. From an operational point of view, WFP Afghanistan drew significant benefits from these local purchases of wheat flour in terms of cost-effectiveness and reduced lead time when compared with that of international / regional purchases.
Following last year ' s improvement of the food supply chain in the southern corridor through Pakistan( Karachi Port) covering over 30 percent of WFP project food requirements, the Spinboldak transshipment warehouse( inside Afghanistan) was established. It is used to store and dispatch food in the western part of the country covered by Kandahar and Herat offices while the Jalalabad storage space was reinforced( 10,000 mt storage capacity) to store and dispatch food for the eastern part of the country covered by Jalalabad, Kabul, Mazar and Faizabad offices.
WFP opened the northern corridor through Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in an effort to mitigate risks incurred by using only the Pakistan corridor, which eventually shortened the lead time for some commodities such as pulses. In addition, WFP Afghanistan agreed with WFP Tajikistan on the modality to serve the northern part of Badakhshan province from Tajikistan. For this purpose, cargoes were procured internationally and shipped through the Riga port in Latvia to Dushanbe in Tajikistan to cover winter pre-positioning for the northeastern region( Badakhshan districts). This mountainous area is not accessible from Afghanistan during the winter period. The food supply throughout the northern corridor represents only 1 percent of the overall food received in the country in 2016 under the PRRO. However, this corridor can scale up deliveries in case the Pakistan corridor encounters obstructions.
In order to urgently serve the needs of beneficiaries under the emergency response in the eastern provinces, assorted food items were borrowed from the PRRO for the IR-EMOP 201023, and also for the EMOP 201024, of which certain amounts have been repaid.
WFP continued to use both its own fleets and commercial transport companies for food deliveries. The usage of WFP ' s fleets remained at about the same level( 35 percent) as in 2015. These fleets were concentrated mainly on
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