Standard Project Report 2016
Country Resources and Results
Resources for Results
Throughout 2016, the country programme( CP) 200319 continued to suffer from a lack of resources, and WFP was unable to fully implement planned activities. Out of the total funding received, 67 percent was to be used in implementing the education support programme, which left the assets and livelihoods( Component 1) and mutrition support( Component 3) components seriously under-funded. As a result, the Livelihoods and Asset Creation component reached fewer beneficiaries with a substantially reduced number of work days and the Nutrition component could only work in three out of the planned six districts. During 2016 however, a significant contribution was received from Korea International Cooperation Agency( KOICA) and the central emergency response fund( CERF). The CERF funding was received to support drought-affected families in the Karnali region alongside the in-kind contribution of the Government of Nepal, while the KOICA funds were for the Saemaul Zero Hunger Community project implemented in Doti district.
The education support component was fully funded from the multi-year grant of the United States Department of Agriculture( USDA) McGovern-Dole Food for Education Programme, which covers activities from 2015 to 2017. The grant included in-kind donations of food for school meals( corn-soya blend and vegetable oil) and a cash contribution to carry out school infrastructure, water, sanitation and hygiene activities and early grade literacy. Additionally, the Ministry of Education contributed USD 150 per metric ton( mt) of food commodities, towards bearing the cost of inland transport, storage and handling( ITSH) to deliver food to the schools. In order to align WFP activities to the amended Education Act that stipulated basic education to include grades 1 to 8 plus one year of pre-school, WFP increased the coverage of school children in 2016, bringing the total beneficiaries to 270,000 children.
The Government continued to provide support for implementation of the nutrition programme in six districts( five Karnali zone districts in the mid- and far-western region( MFWR) and Solukhumbu in the eastern development region) by making available 549 mt of Super Cereal. To support the Government ' s efforts, WFP mobilised resources for the associated costs of this in-kind contribution, from CERF and internal funding mechanisms.
As the third-country resettlement process of the Bhutanese refugee population living in camps in eastern Nepal continued at a faster pace in 2016, the reduction in the refugee population encouraged WFP and partners to adopt measures to maximize the remaining resources of the PRRO 200787. Therefore, after more than twenty years of support to the refugee population providing a full food basket( rice, pulses, sugar, vegetable oil as well as Super Cereal as supplementary food), WFP introduced a needs-based food assistance scheme in January 2016 where only the most vulnerable refugee families received a full food ration and the remaining refugee population received 70 percent of the full ration. In July 2017, WFP also replaced the Super Cereal with rice for the vulnerable refugees, and phased out the supplementary feeding programme( SFP) which earlier served pregnant and lactating women( PLW), people living with HIV( PLHIV) and tuberculosis( TB) patients. This allowed WFP to cover the full resource requirements in 2016, with the contributions from the United States of America and funds received from the strategic resources allocation committee( SRAC).
The PRRO 200875 addresses post-earthquake food and nutrition needs while supporting the Government and local communities to“ build back better” infrastructure and resilient livelihoods. However, the food-assistance-for-assets component in the PRRO went through a long start-up process and could not be implemented in 2016. The reasons for this included lengthy delays in obtaining government approval for the community asset creation projects due to unclear bureaucratic procedures and changes in government in 2016. The significant resources given for immediate relief assistance and increasing needs in other humanitarian crises elsewhere in the world, are likely reasons that funding levels of major donors for recovery activities were lower than expected. Given the resource limitations in 2016, WFP in coordination with the Government, limited the planned activities to implement in three out of the planned seven districts. The planned number of beneficiaries was also decreased from 381,000 to 65,700 people. Despite not being able to reach the original planned beneficiaries, WFP continues to monitor their food security levels through the NeKSAP( the Nepal food security monitoring system) district network in the earthquake-affected districts so that any concerns can be highlighted to the Government for appropriate interventions.
Engaging with projects at the community level has helped WFP to increase coordination and collaboration wherever possible, and to ensure that there is no overlap of programme resources.
In the CP 200319, WFP worked to leverage resources and other development partners in the three operational activities of assets and livelihoods( resilience), education and nutrition support. Notably, under the McGovern-Dole funded school meals and education support programme, WFP coordinated with Save the Children, who also implemented early grade reading( EGR) activities in schools in the MFWR districts where WFP provides early grade
Nepal, State of( NP) 8 Country Programme- 200319