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Standard Project Report 2016
routes which required specialised vehicles because of difficult terrain, and were also used for relatively small
tonnage deliveries to avoid high costs for the commercial companies.
Insecurity remained a challenge for food deliveries across the country in 2016, resulting in higher costs when routes
had to be changed or food deliveries was kept on hold until movement restrictions were lifted.
Post-delivery losses in 2016 were minimal. The majority of incurred losses was caused by food diversions by
anti-government elements in many insecure areas of Afghanistan. Better identification of safe transport routes
through WFP access teams in the field offices and the contracting of high-performing transporters will be part of the
continuous effort to minimise future losses.
With regard to the support for the entire humanitarian community in the country, as a lead agency for the Logistics
Cluster, WFP continued providing storage and transport services to the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as well as several NGOs,
at full cost recovery through service-level agreements. Such cost recovery efforts amounted to USD 410,500 in
2016.
WFP pre-positioned assorted food items for over 188,000 beneficiaries in 60 priority districts in eight provinces
between October and December 2016 in order to ensure that the required food was available for distribution to the
beneficiaries in the areas that were likely to become inaccessible during the winter.
Annual Food Purchases for the Country (mt)
Commodity
Local
High Energy Biscuits
Regional/International
Total
121 - 121
Iodised Salt 2 509 511
Micronutrition Tablets - 19 19
Ready To Use Supplementary Food - 1,778 1,778
Split Peas - 5,946 5,946
Vegetable Oil - 3,611 3,611
66,055 230 66,285
- 1,909 1,909
Total 66,178 14,002 80,180
Percentage 82.5% 17.5%
Wheat Flour
Wheat Soya Blend
Implementation of Evaluation Recommendations and Lessons
Learned
The mid-term operation evaluation of the PRRO, which was concluded in late 2015, provided nine
recommendations in programmatic and operational areas, pertinent to the operational and political context of
Afghanistan. The evaluation offered a timely validation of the appropriateness of the WFP Afghanistan programme
portfolio and strategic direction.
Actions implemented during 2016 as per the nine evaluation recommendations were as follows:
1.
2.
Prioritisation and targeting of activities—In response to reduced funding, programme activities in the approved
PRRO budget revision were re-prioritised and the number of priority districts was reduced by more than half.
Development of an exit strategy—The exit strategy is under development through the ongoing Afghanistan
National Zero Hunger Strategic Review and Country Strategic Plan (CSP) process.
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