Standard Project Report 2016 the number of Afghans living in the country.
Of the 1.5 million documented and 1 million undocumented Afghan refugees living in Pakistan at the start of 2016, nearly 600,000 had returned to Afghanistan by the end of the year, not necessarily voluntarily or in conformity with international law. Recent studies on the mass return of Afghans from Pakistan show worrying levels of contravention of international normative frameworks. Many Afghan returnees report high levels of violence and abuse by community members and government authorities, media campaigns threatening deportation, police raids, arbitrary detention, exclusion of children from schools, and ostracization from community life.
Through its protection and accountability to affected populations( AAP) lens, WFP ensured that all returnees, refugees and internally displaced persons( IDPs) served, knew their entitlements and understood the complaints mechanism, thereby reaching the accountability target under the EMOP( 99 percent reached). This achievement can be attributed to strong community awareness building efforts by WFP and cooperating partners, and increased direct contact with communities as a result of the WFP access strategy.
The majority of WFP participants( both men and women) reported that they had not experienced any safety issues when travelling to / from programme sites, an indication that WFP had put in place strong safety mitigation measures to create a safe environment for WFP beneficiaries.
To avoid a protracted emergency, WFP is ensuring that this emergency operation does not last longer than 12 months( the operation is currently foreseen to last nine months, with an option to extend further into 2017). WFP ' s existing support infrastructure, through a protracted relief and recovery operation, will provide longer-term livelihood support to the remaining number of vulnerable people on the move from July 2017 onwards.
WFP has enlisted the support of a dedicated protection and AAP specialist, who is leading the country office in conducting regular consultations with beneficiaries to receive their inputs and keep them informed of the transition from general distribution to targeted livelihood support when the emergency operation ends, keeping the Government involved during every step of the process. The Humanitarian Country Team( HCT) has assembled a protection working group for the emergency response, in which the WFP AAP specialist participates. WFP plans to conduct a review of livelihood interventions that will provide recommendations and strategic direction for livelihood activities for the coming years.
SCOPE Rollout: Helping humanitarians to better manage beneficiary information
WFP has introduced its corporate beneficiary registration and transfer management system, SCOPE, in Afghanistan. WFP is looking to SCOPE to better manage its humanitarian response to the influx of Afghan returnees from Pakistan, internally displaced persons( IDPs) and those affected by other emergencies in Afghanistan.
A basic laptop, fingerprint scanner and webcam are being used to register beneficiaries; fingerprints are collected to prevent fraud( registering several times for assistance). Beyond registration, SCOPE is used to manage the transfer of entitlements( in-kind, cash or voucher) securely to beneficiaries.
In coordination with the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation, the registration of undocumented returnees in SCOPE began in early November at Torkham Zero Point and the International Organization for Migration( IOM) transit centre, on the Eastern Afghanistan border with Pakistan. Despite insecurity and poor infrastructure, 4,425 households were registered in SCOPE by the end of 2016. Notably, the number of female registrants increased after the recruitment of two female registrars. New four-fingerprint scanners have replaced the old one-fingerprint scanner, thus reducing registration time.
To register IDPs and returnees who had already entered Afghanistan, WFP set up SCOPE registration stations in provincial offices of the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation in the cities of Jalalabad( Nangarhar), Asadabad( Kunar) and Mihtarlam( Laghman). Responding to a request from the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation, WFP also set up SCOPE registrations beyond the eastern region: Spin Boldak in the south; Islam Qala in the west; Milak in Nimroz province; Khost and Paktika provinces in the southeast. To ensure that everyone who needs WFP assistance receives it, wherever they are in the country, WFP and the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation have created a communication campaign to encourage more unregistered returnees to be registered at the provincial offices.
Data protection and privacy is a fundamental part of WFP ' s operations. Beneficiary data are securely managed by WFP and are not shared with any unauthorised parties for other purposes. For this reason, WFP is negotiating
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