Standard Project Report 2016
the distribution points. The programme for the prevention of stunting was implemented in locations with a high stunting prevalence, including among displaced populations in Kachin, Sagaing and Shan as well as in flood-affected areas of Chin. Children aged 6-23 months and PLW in the selected areas enrolled in the stunting prevention programme in line with the " 1,000 days " focus approach of the programme. All children benefiting from the prevention of wasting and stunting programmes received a monthly ration of 3 kg of Super Cereal Plus, while PLW received Super Cereal with sugar for 12 months to maintain their nutritional status and prevent micronutrient deficiencies.
Strategic Objective: Reduce undernutrition and break the intergenerational cycle of hunger( SO4) Outcome: Enhanced treatment success among people living with HIV( PLHIV) and tuberculosis( TB) clients.
Activity: Food and nutrition support to PLHIV on anti-retroviral therapy( ART) and TB clients on directly observed treatment, short-course( DOTS / DOTS-Plus) to ensure nutritional recovery and treatment success.
WFP, jointly with the National Tuberculosis Programme( NTP) and the National AIDS Programme( NAP) under the Ministry of Health and Sports, implemented a nationwide food and nutrition assistance programmes for multi-drug resistant TB( MDR-TB) clients under DOTS-Plus and PLHIV on ART in high-risk areas with the largest number of cases, such as Magway and Yangon regions. MDR-TB clients received a double ration of the basic monthly food basket( the same as for relief operations) as well as 3 kg of Super Cereal with sugar for nine months. Similarly, PLHIV received the same double-sized food basket, however since treatment for PLHIV was life-long, the food and nutrition assistance was limited to the first six months of the ART initiation and for patients who were under-nourished as measured by the patient’ s Body-Mass Index.
The NTP and NAP clinics registered the patients, prepared food requests, informed and sensitised enrolled beneficiaries, conducted nutrition assessments to monitor patients ' nutritional status, provided nutrition counselling to patients and demonstrated how to cook and use Super Cereal. WFP provided support by delivering individual ration packages to the NTP / NAP distribution sites as per their requests, procuring and providing necessary anthropometric equipment for monitoring patients ' nutritional status, providing the necessary information, education and communication materials and monitoring forms. WFP continued food and nutrition assistance for regular TB clients and for PLHIV who were not covered by NTP and NAP. These beneficiaries received a regular monthly food basket for a duration of six to eight months. WFP worked with Government and to ensure coordination of the programmes in term of patients and locations targeted.
In addition to WFP ' s nutrition-specific interventions and HIV-TB programmes, WFP ' s nutrition unit provided continuous technical assistance and capacity development to the Government and cooperating partners. Strong advocacy was also conducted to integrate high impact nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions into core nutrition actions prioritised by the Government
Strategic Objective: Reduce undernutrition and break the intergenerational cycle of hunger( SO4) Outcome: Increased equitable access to and utilisation of education.
Activity: School feeding providing child-centric on-site nutritional transfers in pre-primary and primary schools in order to support equal access to education for girls and boys.
In partnership with the Ministry of Education, WFP implemented the school feeding programme through daily on-site distribution of 75 g per child per day of high-energy biscuits to pre-school and primary school children during the eight-month academic year. In the beginning of 2016, WFP assisted pre-primary and primary schools in Chin, Kachin, Magway, Rakhine, Shan and Wa. When the new academic year began in July 2016, WFP scaled up the programme, expanding to four new areas— Kayin, Kayah, Mon and Sagaing— in the second half of the 2016-17 academic year, starting in October 2016. Distributions proceeded normally in most areas with a few exceptions where access was limited. In Wa Self-Administrative Zone, restrictions on the delivery of food from Lashio were imposed by the Government in view of security concerns in early March. The WFP field office in Wa ran out of food stocks after a two-month supply break that could not be resolved due to the lack of humanitarian access. As a result, distributions were suspended in almost all schools since June. Similarly, in the northern part of Shan State restrictions on movement affected deliveries in majority of schools since October due to the worsened security situation. Following security incidents in the northern part of Rakhine State, the majority of schools in Buthidaung and Maungdaw Townships remained closed from October to December. Distributions were only possible in a few re-opened schools, although with low attendance of teachers and children because of the conflict situation.
[ 1 ] 1 USD = MMK 1,350 as per UN exchange rate in December 2016.
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