Standard Project Report 2016
the provision of a cooked lunch. The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport established a new dedicated office for scholarships which also oversees school meals.
Component 2: Nutrition Strategic Objective 4: Reduce undernutrition and break the intergenerational cycle of hunger.
Outcome: Ownership and capacity strengthened to reduce undernutrition and increase access to education at regional, national and community levels.
Activities: Strengthen government programme management capacity, information systems and policy and strategy platforms.
WFP supported the Scaling UP Nutrition( SUN) movement in Cambodia, assisting in the organization of stakeholder consultations and presided over by the Deputy Prime Minister, to highlight key developments and priorities in addressing nutrition in Cambodia. The meetings emphasised the importance of collective information compilation and analysis to help inform investment plans. In early 2016, with support from the SUN global secretariat, WFP coordinated a review of existing data sets to identify determinants of malnutrition. WFP ' s support to the localization of Sustainable Development Goal( SDG) 2 facilitated the identification of appropriate food security and nutrition targets.
In 2016, the Good Food Toolkit for nutrition counseling to people living with HIV was aligned with updated national guidelines for HIV care and treatment. Online platforms were under development to facilitate access to materials and tools for pre- and in-service training of health practitioners. A study was designed with the National Centre for HIV / AIDS, Dermatology and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, for implementation in early 2017, aimed at understanding the collection and use of nutrition information during patient registration and monitoring.
In collaboration with the Ministry of Planning, WFP initiated a process to improve access to the national poverty registration( IDPoor) data by service providers across ministries and among United Nations and civil society organizations. In 2016, connectivity was enhanced to link the IDPoor database to online platforms for data compilation and decision support. Two regional workshops were conducted to familiarise 194 users with the database and its integration within the real-time information platform.
Component 3: Productive Assets and Livelihoods
Strategic Objective 3: Reduce risk and enable people, communities and countries to meet their own food and nutrition needs.
Outcome: Improved access to livelihood assets has contributed to enhanced resilience and reduced risk from disaster and shocks faced by targeted food-insecure communities and households.
Activities: Productive assets and livelihood support.
In 2016, rural community assets were created and rehabilitated in 56 food-insecure communes, in 18 districts across six provinces. Communal infrastructure including tertiary roads, irrigation canals, dykes, and water reservoirs contributed to improving livelihoods and increasing access to markets and social services. Household assets such as ponds, chicken coops, compost pits and wells, together with skills training towards enhanced agricultural techniques offered opportunities for income diversification, adaptation to climate change and greater independence from seasonal influences. Rice banks facilitated management of transient shocks to the most vulnerable households. Households from the 294 participating villages that were identified by partner organizations, 27 percent of which were included in Cambodia’ s poverty registration system, benefited from rice provided in compensation for their participation in the programme, based on prescribed participation norms, addressing their short-term needs while building sustainable livelihood solutions. The programme included 600 formerly landless and land-poor households that were allocated land under the social land concessions programme of the Government. Following the availability of only in-kind food resources, the programme was not able to provide cash-based transfers.
Considerable migration and hot and dry weather reduced the ability of the participating communes to engage in heavy, labour-intensive infrastructure development; thus the construction of irrigation systems, roads and community ponds lagged behind the target. Rice banks were in great demand following the impact of the El Niño phenomenon. Training activities were also in great demand given the urgent need for climate-smart adjustments of existing agricultural practices, and to address alternative livelihood opportunities in the context of changing community demographics following substantial labour migration out of the target areas; the latter attracted mostly women, many of whom were heads of households.
Strategic Objective 3: Reduce risk and enable people, communities and countries to meet their own food andnutrition needs.
Outcome: Risk reduction capacity of countries, communities and institutions strengthened.
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