Standard Project Report 2016
Project Objectives and Results
Project Objectives
Due to restricted movement and limited opportunities to pursue livelihoods, and therefore achieve self-reliance, refugees in Bangladesh are particularly dependent on food assistance to meet their food security and nutrition needs. The objectives of the PRRO are to:
( i) safeguard the food security of refugees in the camps until durable solutions are agreed upon by providing them with diversified and safe food items accessed through a voucher system;
( ii) treat and prevent acute malnutrition among pregnant and lactating women( PLW) and young children with specialised nutritious food; and
( iii) encourage primary education enrolment, attendance and completion, as well as address micronutrient deficiencies in children, through the provision of school feeding to children in pre-primary and primary schools.
Approved Budget for Project Duration( USD)
Cost Category
Direct Support Costs 2,511,716
Food and Related Costs 2,184,045
Indirect Support Costs 1,092,324
Cash & Voucher and Related Costs 10,908,864
Total 16,696,949
Project Activities
The PRRO continued to safeguard and improve the food security and nutritional status of the registered refugees residing in Kutupalong and Nayapara camps, by providing an integrated package of support, including a food ration through electronic vouchers( FoodCard), nutrition assistance to pregnant and lactating women( PLW) and young children, and school feeding to all pre-primary and primary schoolchildren at WFP-assisted schools, reaching 32,770 people in total in 2016.
Strategic Objective 1: Save lives and protect livelihoods in emergencies.
Outcome: Stabilized or improved food consumption over assistance period for targeted households and / or individuals.
For the food assistance in the registered camps, every month beneficiaries purchase food with their value-recharged FoodCard at three shops established in the camps, with choices of 18 different nutritious commodities. Each shop offers food at established market ceilings, which are used to set the FoodCard value, to ensure that the same nutritionally balanced ration can be purchased each month. A small number of households did not use the electronic vouchers due to permanent or temporary migration out of the camps for work.
The food on offer includes two varieties of rice, red lentils, yellow split peas, fortified oil, iodized salt, sugar and a range of spices as well as fresh produce like spinach, pumpkin and eggs. The provision of dried fish was temporarily halted for most of 2016 after a quality check found the presence of DDT, until WFP was able to source a chemical-free product in December 2016.
Outcome: Stabilized or reduced undernutrition among children aged 6 – 59 months and pregnant and lactating women.
Bangladesh, People ' s Republic of( BD) 12 Single Country PRRO- 200673