Standard Project Report 2016 the same month.
In the remote mountainous villages, WFP rehabilitated nearly all the planned mountain trails by the end of January 2016. The two wooden bridges planned to be constructed were also completed, using locally available wood. With regard to other projects, however, the severe fuel shortage in the country during late 2015 that restricted transport facilities in remote Village Development Committees affected the delivery of raw materials to project sites. This was particularly problematic for WFP’ s partners who planned to contribute part of the raw materials as complimentary inputs to the projects. As a result, the full planned number of hectares of agricultural land where various irrigation schemes were rehabilitated, could not be achieved. With regard to feeder roads, the number of roads planned for rehabilitation was a tentative higher figure as full information was not available during the planning stage of the project. Against this tentative plan, the partners also faced difficulties in transporting the required materials during implementation. As a result, only 41 percent of the planned kilometres of feeder roads could be completed by January 2016.
Since the CR-EMOP lasted only one month in 2016, WFP focused on closing up CR-EMOP activities during this month and did not measure indicators for outcomes, gender, partnerships or protection and accountability to affected populations.
Progress Towards Gender Equality
During the one month period in which the CR-EMOP was completed, partners continued to prioritise the participation of women in project activities and food and cash distributions, thereby ensuring that women and women ' s groups were represented in all aspects of project implementation.
In line with the previous gender guidance given by WFP, partners sought balanced representation of both women and men in the project user committees so that the ideas and concerns of both groups were represented. Women members of the user committees continued to benefit from the training in 2015 on various aspects of the implementation of asset creation activities, such as record-keeping and food and cash distributions.
In January 2016, the majority of participants in asset creation projects were men who had migrated in search of work immediately after the disaster and who had since returned to their villages to rebuild and re-establish livelihoods. The presence of these returned men helped to release the burden on women who had managed family responsibilities alone and who had managed homes and child care.
Given the limited one month duration of the CR-EMOP in 2016, outcome monitoring was not performed, and data on the gender-related outcome indicators was not measured.
Protection and Accountability to Affected Populations
Although no specific protection monitoring was done, WFP staff based at the sub offices continued to regularly monitor project activities in January 2016. WFP’ s community facilitators in each Village Development Committee continued to work closely with beneficiaries so that they could easily contact WFP if they had any problems. Beneficiaries could also contact WFP staff either during their monitoring visits or at the sub offices. The toll free telephone hotline " Namaste WFP "(' Hello, WFP '), which was introduced in September 2015 as an integral part of a beneficiary feedback mechanism, was also available for beneficiaries to directly contact WFP with any queries or complaints.
In 2016, WFP continued protection arrangements that had been put in place during food and cash distributions throughout the CR-EMOP. Separate queues were established for men and women collecting their food and cash entitlements, allowing the needs of both groups to be met in a timely and safe manner while taking into account cultural considerations. Furthermore, pregnant and lactating women, the elderly, people with disabilities, and people with young children were also given priority during the distribution of food and cash. Crowd control measures were deployed to ensure safety, particularly for women and girls.
When selecting the additional sites for the increased food and cash distributions in January 2016, WFP considered protection concerns such as distance, physical barriers and safety of trails and roads. To increase the safety of the beneficiaries, partners organized security measures with the participation of police personnel and local government staff at the distribution points, so that chances of security incidences could be minimised. Similarly, women beneficiaries normally came in groups with male family members to collect their entitlements and travel back home. Thus, they too were less likely to face security incidents on the way to or from distributions. WFP and partners received no complaints of security incidents relating to cash distributions either directly from beneficiaries or through the Namaste WFP hotline.
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