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Standard Project Report 2016
WFP Pakistan also played a pivotal role in providing logistics support to WFP Afghanistan. All food and several
shipments of non-food items (including food production units, pallets, mobile storage units) were directly delivered
from Karachi to Kabul, Jalalabad and Spinboldak, with close coordination between the Pakistan and Afghanistan
offices. Direct deliveries resulted in a reduction in transit times and associated costs.
Since fuel prices were stable in 2016, WFP was able to establish longer-term contracts with local customs
clearance and transport service providers, resulting in cost reductions. In 2016, the total post-delivery losses in
Pakistan were 8 mt, which was 0.01 percent of the total food items handled. These losses were post-delivery losses
during transportation to different destinations and storage in warehouses. WFP continuously provided guidance on
best practices while handling commodities and applied performance appraisals for transporters as a monitoring tool
to further reduce losses.
Annual Food Purchases for the Country (mt)
Commodity
Local
Regional/International
Total
High Energy Biscuits 3,072 - 3,072
Iodised Salt 1,257 - 1,257
Lns 1,031 - 1,031
- 2 2
1,970 - 1,970
10,452 768 11,220
- 6,927 6,927
1,041 - 1,041
- 1,777 1,777
Total 18,821 9,474 28,296
Percentage 66.5% 33.5%
Micronutrition Powder
Ready To Use Supplementary Food
Split Peas
Vegetable Oil
Wheat
Wheat Soya Blend
Implementation of Evaluation Recommendations and Lessons
Learned
WFP implemented the majority of recommendations of the 2014 operation evaluation of the previous PRRO
200250, which informed the design of the current project. There were two outstanding recommendations remaining
to be implemented, one for nutrition and one for the school meals programme. The nutrition recommendation
related to the development of a locally produced specialised nutritious food (SNF), the full implementation of which
is pending global guidance on product development. Actions have been undertaken to incorporate the
recommendation on school feeding, leading to the expansion of the programme to all Federally Administered Tribal
Areas (FATA) agencies and the introduction of cash-based transfers for secondary school girls.
Additional important lessons learned in 2016 relate to the development of specialised nutritious food (SNF), the food
assistance for assets (FFA) programme, field level agreements (FLAs) with partners as well as the beneficiary
feedback desk. Following the successful completion of clinical trials, an acceptability study and field tests, WFP
completed the first local production of Maamta, a lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS), a type of SNF for
malnourished pregnant and lactating women (PLW), in the latter half of 2016. From January 2017, this SNF is
planned to be formally distributed under the community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM)
programme for the treatment of malnutrition. Maamta will also be distributed to PLW participating in the ongoing
stunting prevention programme, replacing Super Cereal and vegetable oil. Maamta is intended as a special dietary
supplement to enrich the often inadequate food intake of PLW. The product can be eaten directly from the package
and requires no dilution, mixing or cooking. Contrary to Super Cereal, Maamta will increase the nutrient intake for
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