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Standard Project Report 2016
Country Resources and Results
Resources for Results
Throughout 2016, the country programme (CP) 200319 continued to suffer from a lack of resources, and WFP was
unable to fully implement planned activities. Out of the total funding received, 67 percent was to be used in
implementing the education support programme, which left the assets and livelihoods (Component 1) and mutrition
support (Component 3) components seriously under-funded. As a result, the Livelihoods and Asset Creation
component reached fewer beneficiaries with a substantially reduced number of work days and the Nutrition
component could only work in three out of the planned six districts. During 2016 however, a significant contribution
was received from Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the central emergency response fund
(CERF). The CERF funding was received to support drought-affected families in the Karnali region alongside the
in-kind contribution of the Government of Nepal, while the KOICA funds were for the Saemaul Zero Hunger
Community project implemented in Doti district.
The education support component was fully funded from the multi-year grant of the United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA) McGovern-Dole Food for Education Programme, which covers activities from 2015 to 2017. The
grant included in-kind donations of food for school meals (corn-soya blend and vegetable oil) and a cash
contribution to carry out school infrastructure, water, sanitation and hygiene activities and early grade literacy.
Additionally, the Ministry of Education contributed USD 150 per metric ton (mt) of food commodities, towards
bearing the cost of inland transport, storage and handling (ITSH) to deliver food to the schools. In order to align
WFP activities to the amended Education Act that stipulated basic education to include grades 1 to 8 plus one year
of pre-school, WFP increased the coverage of school children in 2016, bringing the total beneficiaries to 270,000
children.
The Government continued to provide support for implementation of the nutrition programme in six districts (five
Karnali zone districts in the mid- and far-western region (MFWR) and Solukhumbu in the eastern development
region) by making available 549 mt of Super Cereal. To support the Government's efforts, WFP mobilised resources
for the associated costs of this in-kind contribution, from CERF and internal funding mechanisms.
As the third-country resettlement process of the Bhutanese refugee population living in camps in eastern Nepal
continued at a faster pace in 2016, the reduction in the refugee population encouraged WFP and partners to adopt
measures to maximize the remaining resources of the PRRO 200787. Therefore, after more than twenty years of
support to the refugee population providing a full food basket (rice, pulses, sugar, vegetable oil as well as Super
Cereal as supplementary food), WFP introduced a needs-based food assistance scheme in January 2016 where
only the most vulnerable refugee families received a full food ration and the remaining refugee population received
70 percent of the full ration. In July 2017, WFP also replaced the Super Cereal with rice for the vulnerable refugees,
and phased out the supplementary feeding programme (SFP) which earlier served pregnant and lactating women
(PLW), people living with HIV (PLHIV) and tuberculosis (TB) patients. This allowed WFP to cover the full resource
requirements in 2016, with the contributions from the United States of America and funds received from the
strategic resources allocation committee (SRAC).
The PRRO 200875 addresses post-earthquake food and nutrition needs while supporting the Government and local
communities to “build back better” infrastructure and resilient livelihoods. However, the food-assistance-for-assets
component in the PRRO went through a long start-up process and could not be implemented in 2016. The reasons
for this included lengthy delays in obtaining government approval for the community asset creation projects due to
unclear bureaucratic procedures and changes in government in 2016. The significant resources given for immediate
relief assistance and increasing needs in other humanitarian crises elsewhere in the world, are likely reasons that
funding levels of major donors for recovery activities were lower than expected. Given the resource limitations in
2016, WFP in coordination with the Government, limited the planned activities to implement in three out of the
planned seven districts. The planned number of beneficiaries was also decreased from 381,000 to 65,700 people.
Despite not being able to reach the original planned beneficiaries, WFP continues to monitor their food security
levels through the NeKSAP (the Nepal food security monitoring system) district network in the earthquake-affected
districts so that any concerns can be highlighted to the Government for appropriate interventions.
Engaging with projects at the community level has helped WFP to increase coordination and collaboration wherever
possible, and to ensure that there is no overlap of programme resources.
In the CP 200319, WFP worked to leverage resources and other development partners in the three operational
activities of assets and livelihoods (resilience), education and nutrition support. Notably, under the McGovern-Dole
funded school meals and education support programme, WFP coordinated with Save the Children, who also
implemented early grade reading (EGR) activities in schools in the MFWR districts where WFP provides early grade
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Single Country PRRO - 200787