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Standard Project Report 2016
In 2017, WFP will include lentils in school lunches. Although this addition was captured in a budget revision
conducted in 2016, no distributions took place.
WFP provided technical assistance and capacity development to government counterparts at all levels, and
capitalised on existing government knowledge by strengthening the network between provinces implementing the
national school meals programme. WFP is a key stakeholder in the education sector working group, which
promotes issues related to pre- and primary education, inclusive education and equal access. Together with the
Ministry of Education and Sports and Catholic Relief Services, WFP co-chairs the technical working group on school
meals.
Strategic Objective: Reduce risk and enable people, communities and countries to meet their own food and
nutrition needs (SO3)
Outcome: 3.1 Improved access to livelihood assets has contributed to enhanced resilience and reduced risks from
disaster and shocks faced by targeted food-insecure communities and households and 3.2 Increased marketing
opportunities for producers and traders of agricultural products and food at the regional, national and local levels
Activity: Livelihood initiatives for nutrition (LIN)
WFP implemented LIN in vulnerable and food-insecure areas, contributing to the socioeconomic development of
communities through the creation of community infrastructure. The provision of food assistance for assets (FFA)
improved household food security and enhanced the livelihoods of rural communities by providing road access
between production and market areas, establishing local rice banks to build community resilience, and supplying
water systems which improved hygiene and sanitation conditions. Communities were consulted in identifying their
needs and priorities, thereby ensuring their ownership of and participation in the project.
WFP established an internal cash-based transfer (CBT) working group, and a pilot CBT intervention involving 70
schools under the school meals programme and a local and regional procurement programme is planned for the
first quarter of 2017.
Lao People's Democratic Republic (LA)
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