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Standard Project Report 2016
Activity: General Distribution (GD).
WFP provided assistance to conflict- and disaster-affected internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, refugees
and other highly vulnerable groups whose food security was adversely affected by shocks. Emergency assistance
was provided through food and cash-based transfers depending on several factors, such as market stability,
security, access, and appropriateness within urban and rural areas. WFP also supported severely food-insecure
people through the seasonal support in targeted urban and rural areas during the lean season.
WFP reached 91.4 percent of planned beneficiaries with in-kind distributions (general food distribution) and only
24.8 percent of planned beneficiaries with cash-based transfers (CBT), because of reduced donor funding. Also,
WFP was forced to decrease rations for conflict- and disaster-affected IDPs, returnees and refugees, reduce the
duration and cut beneficiary numbers for severely food-insecure people.
Most of these activities were implemented by non-governmental organization (NGO) partners who were selected
through a competitive process. However, in a few cases where no partners were available, the State Ministry of
Disaster Management and Humanitarian Affairs, a leading partner for WFP in emergency response, and its regional
offices, were able to deliver food assistance with little or no support costs from WFP. For example, as an immediate
response for the Kunduz crisis, and to meet the immediate needs of IDPs, the State Ministry of Disaster
Management and Humanitarian Affairs paid for the baking of bread which was made from fortified wheat flour
provided by WFP.
Strategic Objective: Support or restore food security and nutrition and establish or rebuild livelihoods in
fragile settings and following emergencies (SO2).
Outcome: Improved access to assets and/or basic services including community and market infrastructure.
Activity: Asset Creation.
WFP completed 90 percent of the overall planned asset transfers and achieved the set goals for numbers of
beneficiaries and participants although the planned assets were adjusted with shorter project duration based on
actual resources.
The objective of the asset creation activities was to support disaster risk reduction (DRR) and enhance
the resilience of the targeted communities against shocks. These activities included low-tech and low-cost types of
assets such as flood protection walls, soil conservation (terraces, trenches and tree plantations) and light DRR
activities such as cleaning canals or road repairs. In 2016, priority was given to joint pro grammes with the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
in Kabul, Badakhshan and Balkh provinces. In addition to these partnerships, WFP and the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) also agreed on joint programming in 2017 for which the sites have been selected.
Those United Nations partners have been providing technical and engineering support to various asset
creation activities such as establishment of protection walls and soil conservation.
To deepen the positive effect of asset creation activities, WFP has been expanding the use of a three-pronged
approach (3PA) to include seasonal livelihoods profiling (SLP) and community based participatory planning (CBPP)
to engage communities, especially women, to define needs and determine the best activities to improve food
security in the target communities, and the 2016 Integrated Context Analysis (ICA) to prioritise activities and
targeting.
Strategic Objective 4: Reduce undernutrition and break the inter-generational cycle of hunger (SO4).
Outcome: Reduced undernutrition, including micronutrient deficiencies among children aged 6-59 months,
pregnant and lactating women, and school-aged children.
Activity: Treatment of Moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM).
Programme activities included screening for acute undernutrition, referral and follow-up. Children aged 6–59 months
who were classified with moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) received the ready-to-use supplementary food (RUSF)
Acha Mum, and the progress of their nutritional status was monitored on a bi-weekly basis. Children whose status is
static or deteriorating were referred for appropriate treatment. Pregnant and lactating women (PLW) received a
mixed ration to be shared with their families, consisting of basic food, including fortified wheat flour, pulses, fortified
vegetable oil and iodised salt on a monthly basis. In addition, PLW were provided with micronutrient tablets (MNT)
to enhance the micronutrient level of their food basket since it did not include the standard specialised nutritious
food. PLW were discharged from the programme when the infant became six months of age. Although micronutrient
supplementation is one of the Ministry of Public Health Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) component, its
uptake at the health facilities during antenatal care services was very low.
Only 18 percent of women had four or more ante-natal care visits according to the Afghanistan Demographic Health
Survey (AfDHS) 2015. The number of active community health workers, and the proportion of women among them
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