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Standard Project Report 2016
in areas where interviews conducted by female enumerators of pregnant and lactating women and female
caretakers was culturally more acceptable.
Where access was restricted for United Nations (UN) staff, third-party monitoring agencies were hired to perform
monitoring tasks in line with WFP guidelines. These service providers were hired through a comprehensive
competitive procurement process. To avoid conflicts of interest, such organizations were not involved in the direct
implementation of WFP-supported interventions. Monitoring samples were generated by the WFP M&E team, based
on which the service providers developed their monitoring plan. WFP staff at the provincial level also coordinated
with relevant departments to further verify and triangulate data received from third-party monitoring partners. In
areas where WFP operated in partnership with other UN agencies, periodic joint monitoring visits were conducted.
Throughout 2016, the WFP M&E team, in collaboration with colleagues at the regional and corporate
level, developed a results logic for all capacity development activities implemented by WFP Pakistan. As a result, a
comprehensive country capacity strengthening matrix was finalised, and will serve as the basis for the Country
Strategic Plan (CSP) capacity assessments. Baseline values will be established in 2017 through
the relevant corporate reporting tools for each intervention.
Results/Outcomes
Strategic Objective: Save lives and protect livelihoods in emergencies (SO1)
Outcome: Stabilised or reduced undernutrition among children aged 6-59 months and pregnant and lactating
women
Activity: Provision of nutrition support to pregnant and lactating women (PLW) and children aged 6-59 months with
moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) in targeted districts across Pakistan
The recovery, default, mortality and non-response rates of the community-based management of acute malnutrition
(CMAM) intervention were all well within the prescribed SPHERE standards, and in 2016 either registered an
improvement or stabilised. CMAM coverage estimates were based on a desk review comparing the actual numbers
of children enrolled against the projected number of moderately malnourished children in the targeted areas.
Coverage gaps were caused by the limited availability of resources, which required a geographic prioritisation and
reduction for CMAM interventions.
In 2016, WFP standardised the three key messages on nutrition disseminated under both the stunting prevention
programme and CMAM intervention, and modified its monitoring tools accordingly. Subsequent monitoring results
indicated that one-fourth of the targeted caregivers (who were mostly women) under CMAM and less than one-fifth
of caregivers under the stunting prevention programme confirmed receipt of all three key messages. The
percentage of people receiving three key messages was significantly lower than the target because the
beneficiaries that were exposed to messaging sometimes could not recall which messages they had received, and
the person delivering the messages in some cases might not have delivered all three key messages. Only
beneficiaries that confirmed receipt of all three messages in their entirety were recorded. However, a significant
proportion of the targeted caregivers and PLW reported having been exposed to other nutrition messaging. In
addition, WFP, in conjunction with the Government and other stakeholders, organised a health and nutrition festival
in the drought-stricken district Tharparkar to help mainstream nutrition-sensitive messaging for the general public.
Strategic Objective: Save lives and protect livelihoods in emergencies (SO1)
Outcome: Stabilised or improved food consumption over assistance period for targeted households and/or
individuals
Activity: Provision of monthly relief food assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnee households
in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)
In 2016, WFP stabilised and forestalled a further deterioration in the food security of displaced and returnee families
in the country’s north-west through the provision of monthly relief food rations. The percentage of families that were
recorded as having poor food consumption in December 2016 decreased slightly from the baseline assessment
conducted in March 2016. This reflected the fact that families were already receiving assistance at the time of the
baseline data collection. Moreover, the same families were assisted under the previous PRRO 200250, as no
additional displacement happened in 2016. Likewise, the dietary diversity of families receiving assistance also
recorded a nominal increase. The blanket supplementary assistance planned as a contingency in 2016 was not
provided during the year as there was no sudden onset emergency need that warranted WFP's intervention,
consequently no results are reported for this activity.
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