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Standard Project Report 2016
in 2016, drawing closer to WFP's minimum corporate target of 70 percent. Another key achievement was that from
2015, the Ministry of Health sustained continuous procurements of Super Cereal for the nutrition programme
through the allocation of national resources. Following WFP's training of government health staff both at the central,
district and or village level in the areas of logistics, storage and handling of specialised nutritious food, distribution
management and record keeping, the logistics of delivering the food to the district warehouses have also been
managed by the Ministry for the past year.
WFP provides support to the Government of Nepal through the REACH (Renewed Efforts Against Child Hunger and
Undernutrition) partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO). It also co-facilitates the United
Nations network for the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement, and works towards improved stakeholder and
multi-sectoral coordination at national level for a harmonised nutrition information system, developing the capacity of
relevant government institutions on nutrition-specific and sensitive interventions at national and local levels, and
supporting the government food and nutrition secretariat.
WFP continued to assist the most vulnerable refugee families in Bhutanese refugee camps with full food rations in
2016, even though a needs-based food distribution scheme was launched to increase project efficiency and
maximise dwindling resources. This has contributed to both improved food security, as evidenced by the zero and
near zero (0.90) percentages of households headed by women and men respectively that reported a poor Food
Consumption Score (FCS) in 2016. Refugee families were helped to grow vegetables in vacant land through the
reclamation gardening programme, adding to their dietary diversity.
In terms of creating sustainable programmes, a significant achievement in 2016 was handing over the Nepal food
security monitoring system (NeKSAP) to the Ministry of Agricultural Development in June. Established by WFP as a
field surveillance mechanism in 2002, the NeKSAP evolved as a nationwide food security monitoring system based
on strong collaboration between the Government, WFP and other national institutions. The Government has now
started implementing NeKSAP regular activities through its own resources with technical support from WFP.
The humanitarian staging area (HSA) constructed by WFP in 2015, proved to be invaluable for the post-earthquake
emergency response in 2015. Functioning as the main logistics hub, the HSA enabled over 60 humanitarian
partners to store and transport relief items to affected districts through the Logistics Cluster, led by the Ministry of
Home Affairs and WFP. Training of government and humanitarian partners in emergency logistics, food
management logistics and emergency telecommunications ensured that partners had the required knowledge to
expedite an unbroken supply chain of relief materials. WFP's remote access operations (RAO) team combined with
the engineering unit started repairing rural transport infrastructure in order to enable access. The RAO provided jobs
to local people from earthquake-affected families when they hired them as porters to carry humanitarian goods to
remote high-altitude villages, helping them to earn an income and avoid hunger and food insecurity after the
disaster.
To enhance the protection of beneficiaries, WFP introduced a complaints and feedback mechanism (CFM) in 2015
consisting of a toll-free telephone line “Namaste WFP” with the objective of giving ben