WFP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific - 2016 SPRs RBB 2016 SPRs by project type | Seite 253

Standard Project Report 2016
number of actions in the future. As a result, the Parliament proposed a more than seven-fold increase in the
nutrition budget from USD 54,000 in 2016 to USD 400,000 in 2017. Parliament also approved a resolution to
prioritise the Sustainable Development Goal 2 in 2017, and to implement various nutrition interventions prioritised
by the Ministry of Health, including food fortification.
Given the country's low level of food security, WFP anticipated El Niño would have a significant impact in
Timor-Leste during 2016, and therefore worked with various government ministries to produce a report on how the
drought would impact livelihoods, food security and access to water. In addition, WFP facilitated food security sector
stakeholder meetings to consider the impact of El Niño and a collective and collaborative response. Together with
the Prime Minister's office, WFP also produced a series of radio programmes advising rural communities on how to
adapt to the climatic changes. As a result of these measures, the country office was able to obtain funding from the
United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to initiate a project aimed at preventing malnutrition in
the three worst-affected municipalities of Timor-Leste for three months.
In order to strengthen and support the Government's disaster risk response capacity, WFP took part in two
emergency response simulation exercises. Firstly, WFP took part in the simulation organized by the United Nations
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) under the Pacific Partnership, a week-long exercise
bringing local and foreign military personnel together with the Government and humanitarian actors. WFP also
participated in a simulation to test tsunami response and coordination mechanisms, together with the National
Disaster Management Directorate and the Ministry of Social Solidarity.
Annual Country Beneficiaries
Beneficiaries
Male
Female
Total
Children (6-23 months) 7,451 8,294 15,745
Children (24-59 months) 7,259 7,079 14,338
Children (5-18 years) - 1,249 1,249
Adults (18 years plus) - 16,599 16,599
14,710 33,221 47,931
Total number of beneficiaries in 2016
Timor-Leste, Democratic Republic of (TL)
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