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Standard Project Report 2016
Trust Funds and Visibility
Trust Funds
WFP's project activities throughout 2016 were supported by a number of Trust Funds established by development
partners. The Nepal food security monitoring (NekSAP) project benefitted from four Trust Funds provided by the
Government of Germany, the European Union (EU), the Department for International Development (DfID) and the
International Water Management Institute respectively, supporting food security monitoring, crop yield forecasting
and nutrition management. Similarly, WFP is supported through the Adaptation Fund for Resilience Building against
Climate Change to implement food-assistance-for-assets (FFA) activities with rural households adversely affected in
the Karnali region; the project activities will start from 2017. Capacity development of rural communities to improve
the voice of citizens and ensure effective participation was supported by the community development programme
trust fund in order to improve existing governance and enhance service delivery to rural communities. In addition,
WFP received support from the emergency preparedness trust fund to maintain the humanitarian staging area
(HSA) and to develop capacity of government and humanitarian partners to respond to any future large-scale
emergencies.
Visibility
In 2016, WFP welcomed high-level visits from development partners including representatives from the Government
of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Sweden, Germany and the Republic of Korea to observe
progress in project activities, especially in the country programme, the emergency preparedness project and the
PRRO 200787 for assisting the Bhutanese refugees.
The emergency preparedness project provided an opportunity for Nepal's donors and partners in the Logistic
Cluster to learn how food, medical, health and shelter items were stored and transported to reach
earthquake-affected populations effectively. WFP hosted international visitors from different organizations, such as
the High Commissioner of Great Britain, the Ambassador of the United States of America and the operational team
of the Austrian Development Cooperation at the HSA during 2016. Similarly, many students from around the world
visited the HSA to study the operations of an emergency response. These included a group of 20 students from the
International Honors Programme from many countries, in addition to students from the United States of America,
Japan and the United Kingdom. Details of these visits were published on social media, which helped to leverage
further visibility for the project.
Having completed the earthquake emergency response successfully in 2016, WFP held an official ceremony to
commemorate the humanitarian response on the first anniversary of the earthquakes. A publication and a photo
exhibition entitled “Moving Mountains—A one-year Retrospective of WFP's Earthquake Response in Nepal” detailed
WFP's support to the Government and the affected communities. Additionally, several videos on WFP's trail
rehabilitation work under the remote access operation, was released publicly. All of these activities contributed to
increased public awareness at both the national and international level.
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