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Standard Project Report 2016
Strategic Objective: Support or restore food security and nutrition and establish or rebuild livelihoods in fragile
settings and following emergencies (SO2)
Outcome: Adequate food consumption reached or maintained over assistance period for targeted households
Activity: Implementation of food assistance for assets (FFA) using both food and cash-based modalities in FATA
The livelihood support interventions in FATA, through food and cash support, were successful in reducing the
percentage of people in the targeted communities that reported poor and borderline food security. The dietary
diversity of the targeted communities also improved. All communities where WFP implemented structural support
activities for community restoration and rehabilitation reported an increase in the number of critical functioning
assets.
Securing adequate female participation in these activities remained a challenge as in previous years, and only
one-third of the participants in the training component were women. This was predominantly due to lower female
participation in sessions pertaining to disaster risk reduction (DRR) sensitisation. The reason for this lower
participation was that topics covered in these training sessions related to areas traditionally handled by men in
FATA.
Strategic Objective: Support or restore food security and nutrition and establish or rebuild livelihoods in fragile
settings and following emergencies (SO2)
Outcome: Improved access to assets and/or basic services, including community and market infrastructure
Activity: School feeding in FATA
School feeding indicator values reflect the baseline information collected from the FATA Education Management
Information System (EMIS). The 2015-16 EMIS information was shared by the FATA education secretariat in
October 2016. However, considering that enrolment and retention rates can only be reported on an annual basis,
the follow-up values for schools supported under the school feeding intervention will be reported in 2017.
Strategic Objective: Support or restore food security and nutrition and establish or rebuild livelihoods in fragile
settings and following emergencies (SO2)
Outcome: Stabilised or reduced undernutrition, including micronutrient deficiencies among children aged 6-59
months, pregnant and lactating women, and school-age children
Activity: Prevention of stunting in Sindh, Balochistan and FATA
The stunting prevention programme in Sindh supported children aged 6-23 months and PLW with
specialised nutritious foods (SNF) and provided children aged 24-59 months with micronutrient
supplementation. The results of the stunting prevention programme showed an improvement from the baseline in
terms of the percentage of children aged 6-23 months consuming a minimum acceptable diet (MAD), with the 2016
MAD value nearly double the value two years ago when the stunting prevention programme began in these districts.
However, the proportion of children consuming MAD is still well below the target as a result of high food
insecurity coupled with cultural dietary practices in the intervention areas.
The stunting prevention programme coverage was assessed based on a desk review, which showed that in
targeted areas most children aged 6-23 months and 24-59 months were enrolled as planned. Moreover, the
enrolled beneficiaries, including children aged 6-23 months, 24-59 months and PLW, to a large extent participated
in at least two-thirds of all distributions, as reflected in the participation indicator. The preliminary results
of operational research indicate a marked reduction in the prevalence of stunting and wasting amongst children
aged 6-23 months of age and similar positive trends have been observed in children aged 24-59 months. The
results of stunting prevention messaging were discussed with the results of the CMAM intervention.
Strategic Objective: Reduce risk and enable people, communities and countries to meet their own food and
nutrition needs (SO3)
Outcome: Improved access to livelihood assets has contributed to enhanced resilience and reduced risks from
disaster and shocks faced by targeted food-insecure communities and households
Activity: Food assistance for assets (FFA) using cash-based transfers in Sindh
Implementation of community-based disaster risk reduction activities contributed to beneficiaries' increased
resilience to future disasters and shocks, while the cash incentives facilitated the restoration of their livelihoods. The
results of the FFA intervention in Sindh showed a greater improvement in terms of the reduction in the
percentage of households with poor and borderline food security compared to FFA interventions in FATA under
Strategic Objective 2, where households were previously receiving relief assistance.
The dietary diversity score also recorded a marked improvement in the targeted districts of Sindh. However, it is
important to note that the baseline was conducted for the whole PRRO and thus the sampling was done accordingly
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