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Standard Project Report 2016
capacity of the ARMM in the review of the proposals, as well facilitating convergence of services of the line
departments within ARMM in the implementation of humanitarian and development interventions. WFP also
assisted with the localisation of national laws and policies on food security and nutrition through advocacy that
resulted in the provincial and local governments increasing investments in food security, nutrition and other social
protection programmes.
WFP fully involved farmers’ associations and/or small cooperatives and women’s organisations throughout the
community assessments, thus strengthening their participation in community development. Some examples of good
practices where WFP played a vital role in the development of these organizations were:
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The Pamatuladan a Bayanan People's Cooperative—at its inception there were only 30 women members, but
with constant support and regular communication with WFP, more than 300 women are now part of the
organization. The cooperative continues to empower communities particularly with seedling nurseries, organic
free range chicken areas, areas for vermicomposting and growing mushrooms, and the water hyacinth
handicraft production area;
The Mamagayon People’s Organization in the conflict-ridden town of Mamasapano in Maguindanao province,
which is now a technology adaptor of the Food and Nutrition Research Institute in the manufacture of fortified
foods, utilising locally-sourced agricultural products that are sold in some schools in Maguindanao; and
The Women of War in the municipality of Matanog in Maguindanao province, which transformed Lake Marayag
from a once-alleged dumping site of dead bodies into an eco-tourism destination that provides a source of
alternative livelihood for the community.
WFP partnered with eight other provincial governments, 38 municipal government units, six academic institutions
and nine non-government organizations to implement its disaster preparedness and response and climate change
adaptation programmes for 2016. The partnerships with these institutions were largely aligned with the national
disaster risk reduction management programmes. The shared goal of these institutions was to strengthen the
capacities of the local government units as prescribed in the LISTO checklist—a set of minimum and maximum
disaster risk reduction management requirements of the Government of the Philippines. One important operational
procedure in these partnerships was the involvement of the technical staff from the Office of Civil Defense in
strengthening capacities of partner local government units.
As for gender mainstreaming, WFP developed training modules incorporating gender analysis into food security and
nutrition analysis. In 2016, these modules were piloted in an emergency food security assessment training
workshop in partnership with the Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro. WFP plans to roll out the modules in its
partnerships with the provincial government in Maguindanao.
WFP also started introducing the seasonal livelihood programming approach to its 10 provincial governments and
academic partners in 2016 as a disaster mitigation analysis tool highlighting gender perspectives in local
programming. Seasonal livelihood programming workshops are being carried out to introduce this programming
approach to WFP’s 38 municipal government partners.
In carrying out its programmes, WFP continued to work with various United Nations (UN) agencies. WFP worked
with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) in promoting food security advocacy at the national
level. Both WFP and FAO collaborated with the National Nutrition Council in implementing the Integrated Food
Security Phase Classification (IPC). The inclusion of the IPC implementation in the National Nutrition Council’s
regular annual budget demonstrated a success of the partnership between WFP and FAO. WFP also teamed up
with the UN International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in pushing for nutrition and child protection
programmes in the country. WFP continued to support the inter-agency cash working group in the Philippines,
which focused on strengthening emergency preparedness in the area of cash-based entitlements.
Performance Monitoring
Currently, WFP is utilising its own human resources in monitoring its school meals, stunting prevention, food
assistance for assets (FFA) and capacity strengthening activities. For stunting prevention, all barangay health
stations and rural health units must be visited at least once a year. Monthly food request notes were assessed to
compare the request versus targeted participants. An implementation review was also conducted once a year to
those areas, which have implemented the programme for six months or more. Since the school year in the
Philippines starts in June, monitoring of all schools is finished by March of the following year. The activity
implementation of FFA was also done by WFP staff including the distribution and post-distribution monitoring. There
was close coordination with the local government partner for the capacity strengthening activities in order to monitor
and address gaps and challenges during project implementation.
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