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Standard Project Report 2016
Commodity
Planned Distribution (mt)
Total
Actual Distribution (mt)
19,572
% Actual v. Planned
6,598
33.7%
Cash Based Transfer and Commodity Voucher Distribution for the
Project (USD)
Modality
Planned (USD)
Actual (USD)
% Actual v. Planned
Comp.1- Livelihoods and Asset Creation
Cash
Total
3,518,857 475,637 13.5%
3,518,857 475,637 13.5%
Operational Partnerships
WFP’s main partner in the asset creation projects was the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development.
Projects were jointly implemented, and WFP worked with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other
government partners to transfer skills, knowledge and systems to local government and communities to prepare
them for the full self-implementation of food-assistance-for-assets (FFA) activities under the rural community
infrastructure works programme. The Ministry implemented FFA on their own in several other districts that WFP
could not reach as a result of funding constraints. WFP also partnered extensively with national NGOs—Support to
Poor Producers of Nepal, Manahari Development Institute, and Forum for Rural Welfare and Agricultural Reform for
Development—to implement FFA activities.
WFP implemented the Saemaul Zero Hunger Communities programme in partnership with the Korea International
Cooperation Agency and cooperating partner Good Neighbors International. Under the rural women's economic
empowerment (RWEE) project, WFP worked in a joint partnership with the United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN
Women) under the leadership of the Ministry of Agricultural Development. WFP and partners aimed to increase
women’s knowledge and skills and provide them livelihood opportunities that will help empower them socially and
economically. This was the only joint project that WFP implemented with other agencies of the United Nations.
In 2016, WFP chaired the cash coordination group and coordinated the documentation of the lessons learned from
the provision of cash-based transfers in the 2015 earthquake response. Based on such efforts, the Government
began considering the need for including shock-responsive tools in the draft social protection framework that is
being developed.
WFP’s education support programme made great progress in deepening the partnership with government agencies
to advance programme operations. WFP signed an exclusive memorandum of understanding with the Department
of Education to implement the school meals modality pilot study, with the aim of exploring the preferred school
meals modalities. This will provide the Government with the necessary evidence to improve the current
interventions with the aim of achieving a fully home-grown school meals programme in the future.
WFP was a member of the local education development partner group, which was strongly engaged in responding
to needs in the education sector in Nepal. WFP was active in the working groups for the national early grade
reading programme led by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and also played a
critical role in the formulation of the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in schools task force lead by the
Department of Education to ensure better coordination and that resources are not duplicated.
WFP provided technical assistance for the food security monitoring system in Nepal, NeKSAP (Nepal Food Security
Monitoring System), by conducting refresher training and orientation to the stakeholders during the transition period.
Furthermore, NeKSAP’s operational partnerships were continued in 2016 with different agencies for the use and
integration of new technologies in crop monitoring and assessment such as remote sensing and crop yield
forecasting.
Finally, WFP continued to work with the Government on developing standard operating procedures for the project
on forecast-based emergency preparedness for climate risks, infrastructure development and capacity
enhancement. WFP also cooperated with the Government on including the humanitarian staging area at Tribhuvan
Nepal, State of (NP)
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