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Standard Project Report 2016
Country Resources and Results
Resources for Results
Overall funding levels for WFP's Papua New Guinea (PNG) projects were sufficient to meet emergency
preparedness and general distribution needs.
In December 2015, WFP secured full funding for the IR-PREP from the Immediate Response Account, a multilateral
WFP account for disaster preparedness. All of WFP's proposed emergency preparedness activities for PNG were
funded in 2016.
In April 2016, WFP launched an appeal for resources to support an EMOP. Despite having no previous experience
in the country, WFP received significant interest in the operation characterised by a robust level of funding (73
percent) at the height of the operation. WFP received funding from the United Nations Central Emergency
Response Fund Rapid Response Window as well as donor governments including the European Union, Japan, and
the United States of America.
The EMOP's resourcing success can be attributed to several factors. First, WFP's emergency preparedness
initiatives in the country allowed partners to be identified early. Second, WFP provided mobile Vulnerability Analysis
and Mapping (mVAM) support to further evaluate the food security situation in the country, and the results of the
mVAM assessment were made readily available and helped to justify an emergency operation. Third, WFP
designed the EMOP to have strong interagency components to accommodate donors' interests and proposed to
build capacity of existing stakeholders. Fourth, many donors expressed appreciation of WFP's operational follow-up,
which included reports, briefs and updates to donor embassies in Port Moresby.
WFP revised the EMOP four times to adjust for changes in the operation such as an extension of the project
timeline and adjustments in beneficiary targets and logistics rates. Only the first revision modified the project's
overall budget—WFP determined that EMOP requirements could be decreased by seven percent as a result of
reduced security costs.
Achievements at Country Level
The majority of people in Papua New Guinea (PNG) rely on nourishment from food that they grow themselves.
When a stronger-than-average El Niño arrived in the country from 2014–2016, the subsequent drought gravely
impacted the resilience of the population to meet their basic food needs.
Despite having never worked in the country previously, WFP successfully provided comprehensive emergency
preparedness support to the Government of PNG and humanitarian community. The mobile vulnerability analysis
and mapping assessment allowed the Government of PNG and partners to identify the populations facing difficulties
in meeting their basic food needs after the drought, while WFP's analysis of logistics corridors, aviation assessment,
identification of rice suppliers, and information sharing with partners helped lay the groundwork for the general
distribution.
From June to October 2016, WFP reached 268,107 of the most vulnerable people facing extreme food shortages.
By December, these communities showed substantial improvements in their access to food staples and reported
fewer food shortages. Despite WFP's efforts, there are pockets of people who continue to experience food
shortages. In 2017, WFP plans to continually monitor the most vulnerable populations to ensure their resilience to
future climatic shocks.
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