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Standard Project Report 2016
In 2016, WFP implemented community asset creation projects in seven districts in the mid- and far-western
development region (MFWR) providing food rations, cash-based transfers, or a combination of both to support
participating families.
A joint programme on rural women's economic empowerment (RWEE) in collaboration with United Nations Entity for
Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), the United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Ministry of
Agricultural Development, was implemented to improve food and nutrition security of rural women in Sindhuli,
Sarlahi and Rauthat districts. In 2017, the Saemaul Zero Hunger Communities (SZHC) livelihood improvement
programme funded by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), in Doti district, will use cash-based
transfers to assist beneficiaries. In 2016, WFP and partner Good Neighbors International completed the baseline
survey, technical assessment, market feasibility study, village development committee (VDC) planning exercise,
identification of assets for rehabilitation and social mobilisation.
Twenty-eight percent of the total households supported through FFA in 2016 were food-insecure families affected
by the winter drought of 2015-2016 and the import restrictions during the border blockade between Nepal and India
from September 2015 to February 2016. They were supported with funds from the Central Emergency Response
Fund (CERF).
WFP could reach just 63 percent of planned households in 2016 as many families had temporarily left the districts
as a result of the prevailing drought. Therefore, only 14 percent of food items could be di