Standard Project Report 2016
Activity: Technical Assistance.
Reflecting the success of WFP-supported school meals programme in 2012 – 2015, the Government has adopted the same approach for its own pilot project in 2016. WFP was one of the partners providing technical assistance in the project design and the adaptation of operational guidelines and monitoring tools.
Stemming from WFP’ s technical support and guidance, the 2017 budget for school meals was expanded from four to ten districts in one province. WFP partnership with the private sector led to increased financial inputs in support of the Government’ s school meals programme. WFP also facilitated dialogue between national and sub-national line agencies for improved coordination in the replication and scaling up of the school meals programme. The Government ' s ability to demonstrate results and advocate for continued budget support was strengthened, thanks to WFP’ s support of baseline and follow-up surveys in the pilot areas.
WFP continued its engagement with provincial authorities in NTT and Papua provinces where WFP previously, in 2015, still implemented the cash-based school meals programme. Engagement with the authorities led to budget allocations to sustain the school meals programme in each of the provinces: NTT allocated USD 75,000 and Papua allocated USD 261,185. The school meals programme previously supported by WFP in Kupang District was recognised as a success story during the Smart Development Practices Festival in NTT province.
WFP demonstrated its technical expertise in improving nutrition outcomes and suggesting improvements in the operational efficiency of the food-based social assistance programme. As the Government is reforming its " rice for the poor " programme( a programme launched in 1998 to provide subsidies to poor families), WFP provided considerable technical support to the Ministry of Social Affairs to develop an evidence base to justify increasing the value of the current food voucher. Technical support was also provided to assess the nutritional adequacy and quality of food provided. As part of WFP ' s advocacy for a higher dollar value for the food voucher per beneficiary family, it was asked to conduct a cost of diet study. The results of this study will be used to convince policymakers that increasing the value and quality of the food will in time increase food security and diversify consumption patterns and improve the nutritional outcome. WFP was also requested to assess the food supply chain and recommend how to monitor it for each prospective food item being considered.
Under Activity 2, WFP held several meetings with the Ministry of Development Planning, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture to advocate for increased focus on nutrition and as a result, those ministries agreed to make consumption of fruits and vegetables the key thematic message for the national nutrition day campaign in 2017.
The Ministry of Health stated its intention to utilise its own campaign budget for the fruit and vegetable consumption campaign in support of one of the pillars of the Community Movement for Healthy Life( GERMAS). In response to the Ministry ' s request for support with the communications activities, WFP engaged the food writing and blogging community and sensitised them to the nutrition messages. The writers and bloggers have subsequently agreed to build the social media coverage of the campaign.
The output indicators in the results section reflect the nutrition-sensitive school meals programme. No output indicators were measured for the nutrition campaign because the focus in 2016 was on engaging with government partners for endorsement of the nutrition campaign programme. The Government conducts a total diet survey every four years( next survey to be conducted in 2018) when the Desired Dietary Pattern( DDP) scores are measured. The DDP score will indicate the effect of the nutrition campaign on dietary patterns.
WFP is exploring public-private collaborations to provide annual monitoring data to track outcome level results more frequently. The nutrition campaign is being linked to other government nutrition interventions; for example, the message on increasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables has been incorporated into messaging within the school meals programme.
Progress Towards Gender Equality
A gender analysis of food security during a slow-onset disaster was published in the food security monitoring bulletins. Using data from 2,400 household surveys collected during the 2015 drought associated with El Niño as an illustrative example, the bulletin examined the food security experiences of households headed by women and those headed by men in seven affected districts with high economic vulnerability in the eastern parts of Indonesia. It found that there was little difference in the impact of the drought on food security regardless of whether the household was headed by a man or a woman. Overall, food security, including food consumption, and food-related coping strategies showed similar experiences for all households during this drought.
As a result of WFP’ s advocacy efforts, the national school meals programme included paid incentives for the cooking groups, which were previously not provided. This incentive is now to be paid to each cooking group
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