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Standard Project Report 2016
been integrated in the Executive Office of the President.
Building on WFP's experience, the Government of Indonesia decided to scale up school meals to 38,500 students
in four districts in 2016, and three additional districts in Papua elected to continue providing school meals using their
own funds after WFP phased out its support. Further, based on WFP's successful implementation of the local
food-based school meal (LFBSM) prototype pilot in the Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) and Papua Provinces, WFP
was approached by the Ministry of Education and Culture to help revitalise the national school meal programme.
WFP has been involved in the design and formulation of operational guidelines, training modules and monitoring
instruments. The cash transfer modality that WFP used in the pilot was also adopted by the Government.
WFP began cooperation with the Ministry of Social Affairs to improve the nutritional impact of national social
protection schemes and ensure robust supply chains and monitoring. The Presidential Decree in April 2016
requested a review of all social safety net programmes with the aim of combining all social assistance transfers into
one single card to improve transparency and efficiency and to promote financial inclusion of the poor. WFP's
expertise on the cost of diet study was welcomed by the Government as a tool to establish whether a nutritious diet
can be achieved given the foods available at local markets and if such a diet is affordable based on actual
household food expenditure patterns. This information would then be effectively used by the Government to improve
the nutrition sensitivity of the social safety net programmes, for example, by providing an evidence base to justify
increasing the food commodity voucher value, identify better beneficiary targeting strategies, and expanding the
range of food commodities that can be accessed with commodity vouchers. Upon request, WFP also conducted an
initial rapid assessment of the food supply chain for the cashless electronic wallet for the food purchases
programme, E-Warung KUBE, aiming to improve its supply chain and nutritional impact.
WFP and the National Disaster Management Authority, in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders,
completed the identification of the six most suitable locations for response facilities. The National Disaster
Management Authority also mobilised additional resources on behalf of WFP to help formulate the National
Logistics Master Plan with the ultimate objective of reducing Indonesia's disaster risk index. With technical support
from WFP, Yogyakarta Province established the first provincial logistics cluster with all its activities being financed
from the sub-national government budget.
Supply Chain
Under the Country Programme 200245, WFP purchased processed foods from local suppliers in line with the advice
of the Government of Indonesia to prioritise local food production. Local purchases offered advantages such as
shorter delivery periods and lower handling costs. Most commodities were purchased in Java Island and dispatched
to WFP operational areas in eastern Indonesia. To ensure the quality of food, an inspection was performed at the
supplier warehouses and commodities were stored in special containers for protection and security. The
containerised commodities were then moved by multi-modal transport, via sea and road, to the WFP warehouse in
eastern Indonesia. Starting in 2016, no food has been purchased and/or distributed in the country.
Implementation of Evaluation Recommendations and Lessons
Learned
As a result of previous reviews of WFP's role in Indonesia, after comprehensive consultations with the Government
as well as the WFP regional bureau for Asia and the Pacific, and WFP Headquarters in Rome, WFP Indonesia
discontinued direct food distributions at the end of 2015. It was agreed that food distribution would be done only in
case of a Level 3 emergency response; therefore, WFP has shifted its focus in the country to policy advice, capacity
development and knowledge sharing to support the Government's investments in food security, nutrition and
emergency preparedness. 2016 was the first year WFP Indonesia implemented this recommendation as part of the
new country programme. It did so following a significant staff re-profiling and restructuring exercise. By the end of
2016 WFP Indonesia was receiving requests from the Government and partners, for more sophisticated technical
assistance and capacity development, and its staff were more confidently providing these services.
In 2016, WFP commissioned an independent research institute to conduct the final evaluation of the prototype pilots
- the mother and child nutrition (MCN) and local food-based school meal (LFBSM) programmes implemented
between 2012–2015. The evaluation of the MCN programme concluded that stunting was lower in the sub-districts
where the programme operated, although it was not possible to attribute this outcome to WFP's intervention alone.
The programme had a positive effect on exclusive breastfeeding, dietary diversity, and the proportion of children
with a minimum acceptable diet. The evaluation of the LFBSM programme concluded that anaemia was lower in the
schools where the programme operated. The evaluation also noted improved school attendance and concentration
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