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Standard Project Report 2016
member as remuneration for their time spent preparing food, cooking meals, and for their transport expenses to and
from the school. It represents a recognition of the women’s contributions, time and effort. Furthermore, it helps
women to have increased bargaining power and autonomy within the household.
WFP continues to encourage more men to participate in the school meals programme for example in preparing and
cooking the meals. At this stage men's participation in the school meals preparation remains low, it is hoped that the
incentive payments, recognizing the value of time and labour of the cooks, will attract more men into the groups and
provide positive gender role models for the children.
Protection and Accountability to Affected Populations
The country office has a strong commitment to give account to, take account of, and be held to account by the
people and the institutions it seeks to assist. Wherever feasible, it sought to ensure that men and women were
actively involved in the decisions that affect their lives, in order for its assistance to be more effective. For example,
market research on consumer choices offered an opportunity to consult with communities and design a nutrition
campaign based on their feedback and choices. Accountability and protection techniques will continue to be
incorporated into WFP’s support to nutrition-sensitive safety nets, to enable the communities served to participate in
the design and monitoring of the programmes and have a mechanism for recourse if their entitlements are not met.
For each of the Government's school meals programmes, a sensitisation was held and local communities
were provided with information about the programme in their district or sub-district. Community attendees
comprised prominent persons, local government officials, members of cooking groups and parents who
were engaged in informal discussions about the programme. Information was shared on the types of meals,
ingredients and the nutritional value of those meals, and sample menus were displayed on the wall.
Innovations in food security monitoring and disaster management
in Indonesia
The Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping Platform for Regional Events
WFP Indonesia explored the use of technologies for innovative food security monitoring, to provide rapid access to
information on the impact of current weather extremes on the food security situation, to prevent malnutrition and
food insecurity from worsening, and ultimately to save lives. Building on its online Food Security and Vulnerability
Atlas that provides a geographic profile of food and nutrition security across Indonesia, and in partnership with
Pulse Lab Jakarta, WFP initiated a pilot project to bring different data streams into a single interactive map-based
platform. The platform, the Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping Platform for Regional Events (VAMPIRE) is capable
of automatically accessing and updating, processing, and visualising a range of overlaid data in near real-time and
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