Standard Project Report 2016
Mindanao. The SCOPE platform enhanced the quality of the beneficiary data captured as well as the tracking of food and cash distributions. In order to deliver the cash assistance, WFP contracted a financial service provider.
WFP, along with other United Nations agencies and nutrition stakeholders, actively provided technical assistance to local, regional and national government units in establishing nutrition policies and programmes. Recently, these efforts to address acute malnutrition have finally come to fruition. In January 2016, the Department of Health signed an administrative order for the first ever national guidelines on the management of severe acute malnutrition for children aged 24-59 months. These guidelines will be used by healthcare workers and advocates for the treatment of acute malnutrition and will be especially useful during disasters and emergencies. While the WFP-specific stunting prevention programme under PRRO 200743 is being implemented in the 17 municipalities, the objective has now been explicitly emphasised as the main goal of the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition 2017-2022, where WFP played a major role in its development.
Further, WFP funded the development of Momsie— a locally-produced ready-to-use supplementary food for children aged 6-36 months— by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute. To ensure that Momsie becomes comparable to the Lipid Nutrient Supplement for stunting prevention, WFP provided technical assistance to the technology adaptor to improve the quality of the ready-to-use supplementary food.
WFP played a major role in enhancing the Government ' s disaster preparedness and emergency response. The 5,000-square metre, state-of-the-art automated repacking system at the Visayas Disaster Response Centre, was completed in Cebu City in April 2016. The facility was instrumental in producing thousands of family food packs distributed to typhoon-affected communities.
Upon request from the Department of Social Welfare and Development( DSWD), WFP enhanced the agency ' s logistics capacity in its emergency responses to Typhoon Haima in October 2016 and Typhoon Nock-ten in December 2016. WFP provided a combined total of 122 trucks to transport 1,557 mt of relief goods, including family food packs and rice. The logistical support was provided through the preparedness funds made available by the Office of United States Foreign Disaster Assistance.
Work with the DSWD and other partners in the area of emergency preparedness included the drafting of an agreement with the government on emergency cash transfers leveraging on existing social safety nets, as well as discussions on the development of a national framework for cash based transfers.
During the fourth phase of the disaster preparedness and response( DPR) programme that lasted from 2015-2016, WFP worked with 49 cooperating partners( 5 provinces, 2 cities, 23 municipalities, 8 academic institutions and 11 NGOs) in implementing DPR and climate change adaptation projects. WFP coordinated closely with the Department of Interior and Local Government, the Office of Civil Defense, the Climate Change Commission, the Department of Science and Technology, the DSWD and other national government agencies to ensure alignment with national priorities, policies and plans.
Building on the gains of previous project phases, WFP started the implementation of the DPR programme phase five in July 2016, aimed at increasing the disaster risk reduction and management capacity of 38 lower-income class municipalities with high exposure to natural hazards. By the end of 2017, WFP will have have conducted trainings, procured equipment, developed plans and implemented mitigation projects in order to help establish fully functional local disaster risk reduction and management offices with the ability to adequately prepare for, mitigate and quickly respond to emergencies.
In this domain, WFP Philippines has welcomed innovations on DPR and prioritises the reach of its climate services given the country ' s vulnerability to natural disasters. Under the Forecast-based Financing and Emergency Preparedness( FbF) project, a baseline assessment of early warning systems, forecasting capacities, and their role in disaster preparedness, climate change adaption and food and nutrition security was completed in May 2016. The assessment continues to inform the development of standard operating procedures and development for preparedness actions, which will be completed for piloting in 2017.
Related to the FbF project, WFP commenced the piloting of FoodSECuRE, a climate resilience innovation project under which a map room forecast prototype was developed. The map room was designed to test and refine the triggers and thresholds for the standard operating procedures for preparedness developed under FbF.
Philippines, Republic of the( PH) 8 Single Country PRRO- 200743