WFP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific - 2016 SPRs RBB 2016 SPRs by country | страница 730

Standard Project Report 2016 • • Outcome: Adequate food consumption reached or maintained over assistance period for targeted households Activities: Food assistance for assets (in Maguindanao, Lanao Del Norte, and Lanao Del Sur provinces) On average, WFP was able to achieve its targets for two out of three corporate indicators in 2016. Based on the combined results of the two cycles of data collection (June and December 2016), the Coping Strategy Index (CSI) of the households was less than the target score of 15. CSI measures the frequency and severity of the behaviours in which the households engage in when faced with food shortages. A lower index or score means that fewer food consumption-based strategies were used, which implies an improvement of the food security situation of the household. The improvement was evident for households headed by both males and females (11.7 and 14.6 respectively). The data showed that the households resorted to fewer coping mechanisms due to the availability of food and nutrition lifelines provided by the national and local government units and WFP. Aside from CSI, the mean scores on dietary diversity showed that the target scores set by WFP for households headed by males and females (5.5 and 5.7, respectively) were achieved as per the outcome monitoring conducted in the first half of the year. The dietary diversity score measures the number of different food groups consumed over a given period and it provides an estimation of the quality of a diet. However, the outcome monitoring conducted in the last quarter of the year showed a deterioration in the diet diversity score of the households. This was largely a negative effect due to the impact of the El Niño which ravaged a large portion of Mindanao in the first half of the year and the seasonality of events in the country. Based on the emergency food security assessment (EFSA) undertaken by WFP