WFP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific - 2016 SPRs RBB 2016 SPRs by country | Seite 419

Standard Project Report 2016
from Bangladesh, received food or cash transfers during the agricultural lean season that lasted from May to
November. WFP’s lean season assistance was however disrupted due to security incidents and ensuing violence
from October to December. WFP delivered limited emergency assistance to newly affected populations when
intermittent access was granted by the local authorities. Recurrent tensions and instability of access hampered the
implementation of WFP’s operations in areas of Kachin beyond the Government's control. WFP’s last cross-line
delivery of food to these areas took place in May, and were then suspended until December. The subsequent
operations were halted by the Government due to security concerns. The pulses and fortified food, complementing
assistance provided by local organizations, were sufficient for two-three months only. When access was restricted,
the humanitarian community increased funding to the local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to meet the
immediate needs of the IDPs.
In Shan, a combined in-kind (rice) and cash distribution was expanded to more camps. Communities in
Ayeyarwaddy, Bago, Chin, Magway, Mandalay, Rakhine and Sagaing affected by both the 2015 and 2016 floods
were assisted under WFP's emergency response. WFP also supported the first small organised repatriation
of Myanmar refugees from Thailand through a return package of cash equivalent to three-months food assistance to
help returnees with their initial (re)integration. Most relief beneficiaries received a monthly basic food basket
consisting of 13.5 kg of rice, 1.8 kg of pulses, 0.9 litres of oil and 150 g of salt, allowing a daily intake of 2,100
calories per person or its equivalent of Myanmar Kyat (MMK) 8,000-15,000 in cash [1].
Strategic Objective: Support to restore food security and nutrition and establish or rebuild livelihoods in fragile
settings and following emergencies (SO2)
Outcome: Adequate food consumption reached or maintained over assistance period for targeted households and
improved access to assets and/or basic services, including community and market infrastructure
Activity: Asset creation activities providing gender and protection sensitive restoration and rehabilitation of
productive assets in disaster- and conflict-affected rural and urban areas through food assistance for assets (FFA)
and cash for assets.
Following the emergency response to the 2015 floods with immediate unconditional food assistance, WFP phased
in the community asset creation programme as an early recovery measure to support the re-building and restoration
of livelihoods in the most affected communities in Chin, Magway, Rakhine and Sagaing. The programme was
initiated in November 2015 and was successfully completed in May 2016. In Chin, Mon, Rakhine, Shan and Wa, the
asset creation programme also targeted women and men from marginal and vulnerable population groups in areas
with limited working opportunities, poor infrastructure and high vulnerability to shocks. The choice of assistance
modality was made in consultation with the targeted communities and depended mainly on their access to markets,
food availability in these markets and food prices. Transfers were conditional upon beneficiaries' labour inputs in
work schemes. In compensation for work completed, most people assisted under the programme received MMK
2,500–3,500 per day per person. The projects included rehabilitation and restoration of farmland, mini earth dams,
dikes, embankments, irrigation canals and c