WFP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific - 2016 SPRs RBB 2016 SPRs by project type | Page 224

Standard Project Report 2016
Outcome: Reduce undernutrition, including micronutrient deficiencies among children aged 6-59 months, pregnant
and lactating women, and school-aged children
Activity: Nutritional support for vulnerable groups
Under component 1, WFP provided a programme for the treatment of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) providing
targeted supplementary feeding (TSFP) for children aged 6-59 months in the Northern, Uva and Central Provinces
where rates of acute malnutrition were high (all the districts had wasting prevalence above 15 percent). Through
primary health centres, children with MAM aged 6-59 mont