WFP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific - 2016 SPRs RBB 2016 SPRs by country | Page 68

Standard Project Report 2016
Project Type
Cereals
Single Country
PRRO
Total Food
Distributed in 2016
Pulses
Mix
Other
Total
464 34 32 - 2 533
54,082 7,698 6,687 1,439 462 70,367
57,810 7,974 6,902 1,444 477 74,607
IR-EMOP
Single Country
Oil
Cash Based Transfer and Commodity Voucher Distribution (USD)
Project Type
Cash
Value Voucher
Commodity Voucher
Single Country EMOP 143,878 - -
Single Country PRRO - 6,140,637 -
143,878 6,140,637 -
Total Distributed in 2016
Supply Chain
As a result of WFP's decision to use fortified wheat flour instead of grain in all food baskets, the amount of fortified
wheat flour purchased locally increased significantly in 2016, thus increasing market supply demand from local
smallholders and sellers. This increase was achieved by maintaining a commercial partnership with a national
network of mills in Kabul, Herat, Jalalabad and Mazar-e-Sharif, developed to provide a stimulus to an important
sector of the national economy.
WFP procured the majority of the food locally, mainly fortified wheat flour which represented 69 percent of the food
basket in 2016, while 29 percent of food received in the country came from in-kind contributions or purchases from
international markets. Only 2 percent was purchased regionally from Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. Local
purchases enabled WFP to respond to critical programme needs and winter pre-positioning with cost-effective
purchases and short lead times. From an operational point of view, WFP Afghanistan drew significant benefits from
these local purchases of wheat flour in terms of cost-effectiveness and reduced lead time when compared with that
of international/regional purchases.
Following last year's improvement of the food supply chain in the southern corridor through Pakistan (Karachi Port)
covering over 30 percent of WFP project food requirements, the Spinboldak transshipment warehouse (inside
Afghanistan) was established. It is used to store and dispatch food in the western part of the country covered by
Kandahar and Herat offices while the Jalalabad storage space was reinforced (10,000 mt storage capacity) to store
and dispatch food for the eastern part of the country covered by Jalalabad, Kabul, Mazar and Faizabad offices.
WFP opened the northern corridor through Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in an effort to mitigate risks
incurred by using only the Pakistan corridor, which eventually shortened the lead time for some commodities such
as pulses. In addition, WFP Afghanistan agreed with WFP Tajikistan on the modality to serve the