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Standard Project Report 2016
Project Objectives and Results
Project Objectives
The project contributed to WFP Strategic Objective 4—reduce undernutrition and break the intergenerational cycle
of hunger—and focused on ensuring people's access to sufficient, adequate and high-quality food to meet their
nutrition needs by building the capacity of the Government to operate a sustainable government-led nutrition
programme.
The specific objectives of this project were two-fold:
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To strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Health to plan and manage the entire cycle of the treatment of
moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) programme, including the supply chain, monitoring and evaluation; and
To ensure that moderately malnourished children aged 6-59 months and malnourished pregnant and lactating
women (PLW) had access to supplementary food in sufficient quantity and quality.
To achieve these objectives, the activities planned in 2016 included providing municipal level trainings on the
implementation of a nutrition treatment programme, including behaviour change communications for nutrition. In
addition, the project supported the ability of the Ministry of Health at the national and municipal level to implement a
nutrition treatment programme through supportive supervisory visits, on-the-job mentoring, and technical advice.
During 2016, WFP supported the Ministry of Health to provide treatment for MAM to children and PLW in six
municipalities. In addition, two non-government organizations (NGOs) planned mass screenings for MAM in three
municipalities. The two NGOs, World Vision and the Alola Foundation, also planned to continue working with
community support groups through activities aimed at improving behaviours around nutrition.
Approved Budget for Project Duration (USD)
Cost Category
Capacity Dev.t and Augmentation 6,655,399
Direct Support Costs 2,669,989
Food and Related Costs 3,556,611
Indirect Support Costs
901,740
Total
13,783,739
Project Activities
Strategic Objective: Reduce undernutrition and break the intergenerational cycle of hunger (SO4)
Outcome: Increase ownership and strengthen the Ministry of Health’s capacity to reduce undernutrition through the
design, planning and management of the mother and child health and nutrition (MCHN) programme
Activity: Technical assistance
WFP's programme in Timor-Leste focused on building the capacity of the Ministry of Health to implement a nutrition
treatment programme, as well as monitoring and evaluation. Technical support was provided at the national and
municipal levels through training on nutrition-specific interventions, as well as supervisory visits and on-the-job
mentoring.
During 2016, technical assistance activities included:
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57 health staff received training on nationally developed nutrition specific interventions, conducted by the
National Institute for Health Services with support from WFP, while 28 staff received refresher training on the
national guidelines on the integrated community management of malnutrition and reporting on nutrition
Timor-Leste, Democratic Republic of (TL)
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