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Standard Project Report 2016
implementation were still emerging.
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)
To improve communities' food and nutrition security through livelihood initiatives for nutrition (LIN), 94 villages
created 107 community assets, which included fish ponds, irrigation and gravity-fed water systems, road access
and land development. WFP provided rice and fish to 17,000 participants involved in the construction work. The
decline in the Diet Diversity Score may have resulted from community members consuming only WFP-provided
commodities, and not supplementing their diet with food items from vegetable gardens, reflecting a short-term
coping strategy to manage food insecurity.
The Community Asset Score (CAS), which measures the functionality and community maintenance
of assets, increased to 48 percent. The increased CAS indicates a higher number and a wider variety of assets
available in the community, which positively affects community livelihoods. This improvement also has a long-term
effect, as community assets are multiyear and can help to increase the level of food security in the long term.
Fish ponds were established in schools to link LIN and the school meals programme, and provided a source of
protein for school lunches in addition to the rice, oil and fresh vegetables from the school gardens.
Local procurement of food continued to be a challenge as suppliers could not meet WFP standards in terms of
quality and competitive prices. In an effort to develop the local market and assist suppliers in understanding and
meeting WFP's regulations and standards, a small quantity of sugar was purchased locally.
The beneficiary feedback mechanism significantly contributed to increasing communities’ awareness of WFP’s
activities, and enabled improvements in programme implementation based on information received
from beneficiaries.
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