WFP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific - 2016 SPRs RBB 2016 SPRs by country | Seite 621

Standard Project Report 2016
Approved Budget for Project Duration (USD)
Cost Category
Capacity Dev.t and Augmentation
28,027,493
Direct Support Costs 5,870,139
Indirect Support Costs 2,372,835
Total
36,270,467
Project Activities
In 2016, the Logistics Cluster, co-led by WFP, continued to facilitate the storage and delivery of relief items by road
transport to the districts prioritised by the Government - Gorkha, Sindhupalchowk and Dolakha. Information
management and geographic information systems (GIS) services also continued to support coordination among the
humanitarian community.
Coordination units with dedicated WFP staff, set up at the beginning of the response, continued to operate in
humanitarian hubs in Kathmandu, Chautara (Sindhupalchowk District), Charikot (Dolakha District), and Deurali
(Gorkha District). The Logistics Cluster continued to utilise the same storage facilities as in 2015 such as the
Humanitarian Staging Area (HSA)—with a capacity of 2,320 square metres—at Tribhuvan International Airport
(TIA). The Logistics Cluster continued to use the HSA until the Cluster was deactivated in April 2016.
Humanitarian operations were uninterrupted by fuel issues in 2016 thanks to WFP's actions following the 2015 fuel
crisis; WFP had facilitated the provision of fuel to the humanitarian community for the movement of relief
supplies through close coordination with the Government. The remaining fuel was used in 2016 for the deliveries of
vital food aid to earthquake-affected beneficiaries.
Logistics Cluster cells, which had been established in 2015 in Deurali, Chautara, Charikot and Dhading Besi,
continued to conduct weekly meetings in January and February 2016 and, at the Kathmandu hub, until the end of
March 2016. Ad-hoc meetings were also held in all field locations as and when required. Regular information
products including maps to show access constraints, minutes of meetings, infographics, situation reports and
operational snapshots were shared with partners through a cluster mailing list. Altogether, 16 meetings were
conducted, and 31 maps were shared from January to April 2016, resulting in the achievement of planned targets
for information sharing.
In 2016, the Logistics Cluster continued to deploy a dedicated GIS officer to assist the humanitarian community with
their requests for logistics mapping, including concept of operations, access constraints, and trekking trail maps,
which were made available through the Logistics Cluster website to facilitate porter operations and trail repairs.
As conditions in the earthquake-affected districts improved, and adequate commercial capacity for operating an
uninterrupted supply chain became available in the market in Kathmandu and other main towns, WFP gradually
scaled down the Logistics Cluster operations and officially deactivated the cluster at the end of April 2016. However,
trail rehabilitation continued under the RAO as did porter and pack animal transport services in the districts of
Dhading, Gorkha, Dolakha and Sindhupalchowk because of higher needs and requests by partners. As evidence of
the appreciation by donors and the humanitarian community of the work on TRB rehabilitation, WFP received
additional resources to expand and extend this activity into 2017, particularly for the improvement of trails and
completing the engineering assessments across two of the worst-affected districts, Gorkha and Dhading. Hence, in
the last quarter of 2016, the improvements to existing trails in these two districts were also included in the special
operation.
Through the RAO transportation services, 27,700 people compared to 20,000 planned were provided work
opportunities. This over-achievement was a result of the fact more people were hired for trail assessments and food
transportation. The RAO spent USD 1.5 million on wages for transporting 2,300 mt of humanitarian assistance
during 2015 and 2016. In 2016 until the end of May, RAO delivered 255 mt of food and 461 mt of non-food items out
of a combined planned total of 867 mt, and provided porter jobs for 4,512 people.
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