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Standard Project Report 2016
short-notice in the second relief PDM in central Rakhine, the collected nutrition data were not statistically
representative due to the limited number of interviewed households (n=10) and thus no data were available for
reporting purposes. A new corporate questionnaire format for households benefiting from cash assistance was
adopted for the relief and asset creation PDMs, although this absorbed a significant amount of human resources for
questionnaire programming, data analysis and report writing. While the new questionnaire format improved overall
data and analytical quality, it offset the benefits introduced by mobile data collection regarding the timeliness of
reporting. WFP developed a module-based learning and training programme for field monitors and engineers on
extended outcome measurement and monitoring of asset creation activities.
Enhanced internal programming: Gender and protection relevant indicators were expanded and more sensitive
analysis was included in the relief and asset creation PDMs, including on the utilisation of the complaints and
feedback mechanism (CFM), in order to enable more needs-based programming decisions. An online programme
monitoring matrix was set up jointly to streamline the monitoring and reporting process and ensure that
recommendations from field visits, missions and assessments were recorded and acted upon in a transparent and
easily accessible manner. Structured guidance on system navigation and data entry was developed for assigned
staff in December 2016 and the system will be fully operational starting from January 2017.
Challenges
While there was robust implementation and output monitoring in 2016, more investment needs to be made for
improved outcome monitoring, particularly the management of databases, development of project-specific
indicators, regular trend analysis, training on assessment techniques and integration of analysis into project
proposals. Disaggregated data needs to be available in a more timely manner and the availability of outcome
indicators to be expanded to better facilitate evaluation of WFP’s interventions in the future.
The benefits of COMET were evident in project and partnerships planning, and tracking of actual beneficiary and
resource information. However, the amount of data to be entered and validated in COMET was extensive and there
was still a need to continue storing and analysing data in parallel outside of the COMET system in order to enable
more disaggregated analysis and donor-specific reporting. Parallel data entry will have to continue into 2017 and
staffing needs may need to be re-evaluated to ensure that adequate technical support is provided towards the
monitoring of regular activities.
Results/Outcomes
Strategic Objective: Save lives and protect livelihoods in emergencies (SO1)
Outcome: Stabilised food consumption over assistance period for targeted households and/or individuals
Activity: Relief assistance
WFP delivered life-saving food and cash assistance to more than half a million internally displaced, flood-affected
and other most vulnerable populations, many of whom relied on humanitarian assistance as their only means for
survival. In Rakhine State, WFP assisted 193,990 people. WFP provided relief food rations to 132,310 internally
displaced persons (IDPs) and most food-insecure people from the host communities, as well as providing
cash-based assistance to 49,020 vulnerable people in the northern part of Rakhine, including returnees from
Bangladesh. Following security incidents and access restrictions in place in the northern Rakhine from October to
December, WFP reached only 12,660 newly displaced persons with one-off distributions permitted by the local
authorities. The majority of the people benefiting from the lean season programme remained out of reach during this
period. In Kachin State, WFP reached 65,800 IDPs affected by the ethnic conflict in 2011. The majority of the
targeted population received cash-based transfers. However, with the exception of some cross-line missions, the
humanitarian access of international actors was suspended from May to December, putting at risk the food and
nutrition security of 28,000 displaced people. In northern Shan State, including Wa Special Administrative Division,
23,800 IDPs received monthly food or combined cash and food assistance. WFP provided emergency food
assistance to 231,400 flood victims to mitigate people’s suffering from hunger. A group of 71 Myanmar refugees
voluntarily returning from the camps in Thailand also received a relocation grant from WFP. Of the people assisted
with relief assistance, 85 percent benefited from food rations while the remaining quarter benefited from cash
entitlements. Overall, WFP overachieved the planned number of beneficiaries under this outcome by 26 percent
while the number of IDPs in Rakhine State who received assistance surpassed the target (140 percent), mainly due
to the halt of the intended transition from relief assistance to early recovery support following security incidents in
2016. Disruptions to regular relief operations were also caused by access restrictions. However the quantity of food
distributed in 2016 was lower than planned as regular relief operations were disrupted as a result of restrictions on
humanitarian access.
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