Standard Project Report 2016
In Cox ' s Bazar, the Government maintains the two formal refugee camps for up to 34,000 registered Rohingya refugees. All issues there, including assistance provided by WFP, are coordinated with the Office of the Refugee Relief and Repatriation Commissioner.
School feeding, as a potentially multi-benefit intervention for education, nutrition and social change, has been a critical entryway for WFP ' s strategic cooperation with the Government. The country has one of the largest primary education systems in the world – nearly 80,000 primary-level educational institutions – and aims to reach universal primary education, aided by its removal of school fees and the granting of monthly stipends. In 2011, the Directorate of Primary Education, under the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education, launched the National School Feeding Programme in Poverty Prone Areas providing support to girls and boys in pre- and primary schools in the poorest and most food-insecure areas. WFP has been providing technical support to the Government as it scales up school feeding, including advising on sustainable funding options. Bangladesh continues to engage in South-South cooperation to build learning; a government delegation visited Brazil ' s successful school feeding programme at WFP ' s Centre of Excellence against Hunger in Brasilia in 2012.
To underpin further support to the Government ' s development agenda in addition to school feeding, WFP supports the strengthening of government safety net programmes that focus on disaster risk preparedness and food security. This involves improving the contents and delivery of the Government ' s main safety nets and expanding their reach. These programmes include efforts to mainstream nutrition( especially through behaviour change activities, rice fortification and better targeting).
In Bangladesh, the Humanitarian Coordination Task Team( HCTT) is the main pillar of the country ' s humanitarian system. The HCTT is composed of nine humanitarian clusters( Food Security; Nutrition; Water, Sanitation and Hygiene( WASH); Health; Education; Shelter; Early Recovery; Child Protection; and Logistics) which are technical and sectoral working groups comprised of a United Nations lead agency, national counterparts and cluster members. WFP is co-lead, with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations( FAO), of the Food Security Cluster and lead of the Logistics Cluster. The HCTT acts as a coordination platform to strengthen the collective capacity of the Government, national and international actors to respond to emergencies. Under the Food Security Cluster specifically, active district focal points contribute in both humanitarian and development focused coordination. WFP actively participates in the Nutrition Cluster and has taken the lead in the process for formulating emergency infant and young child feeding guidelines. In Cox ' s Bazar, WFP served as the main nutrition coordinator under the Cluster in 2016.
Summary of WFP Operational Objectives
WFP is working in partnership with the Government of Bangladesh and other actors to reduce poverty, enhance food security and nutrition, and minimise vulnerability to recurrent shocks through a country programme( CP) and a protracted relief and recovery operation( PRRO), both of which contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2.
Through its CP, WFP aims to improve the long-term food security and nutrition situation of vulnerable households in the poorest and most food-insecure rural areas and urban slums, with assistance to 3.6 million people over five years( 2012-2016) in 15 prioritised districts. Its objectives are to reduce undernutrition among women and children aged 6-59 months; increase children ' s access to pre-primary and primary education; enhance the resilience of vulnerable communities and households to natural disasters and the effects of climate change; and enhance nationally owned safety-net programmes addressing hunger and household food insecurity. It falls in line with WFP ' s Strategic Objective 3( reduce risk and enable people, communities and countries to meet their own food and nutrition needs) and Strategic Objective 4( reduce undernutrition and break the intergenerational cycle of hunger).
The PRRO seeks to improve the food security and nutrition of 34,000 refugees residing in two official camps in Cox ' s Bazar through unconditional food assistance, nutrition interventions and school feeding. Its specific objectives are consistent with WFP ' s Strategic Objective 1( save lives and protect livelihoods in emergencies) and Strategic Objective 4.
In Bangladesh, WFP engages in reviews that guide future interventions. In 2016, this most notably included the independent Strategic Review of Food Security and Nutrition and the Joint Assessment Mission( JAM) in Cox ' s Bazar. JAMs are jointly conducted and reported on by WFP and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees( UNHCR) as a means to determine the food and related needs of refugees – in Bangladesh ' s case, the mission focused on the refugee population from Myanmar residing both within and outside of the camps in Cox ' s Bazar. This significant undertaking will contribute to both organizations ' plans on how to continue assistance to this population while capitalising on opportunities to increase self-reliance.
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