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Standard Project Report 2016
In the Nayapara and Kutupalong refugee camps, Food Security Surveillance surveys are carried out on a quarterly
basis through a contract with Action Contre la Faim (ACF) to analyse trends and assess the effectiveness of WFP’s
food assistance. The surveys collect information on food consumption, dietary diversity, livelihoods and income
sources, and provide an opportunity to identify any gender and protection issues related to WFP’s service delivery.
Adjustments have been made to the study design in early 2016 to improve the data collection process and reporting
quality. Responsibility has also shifted from ACF to WFP, to capitalise on expertise in the Cox’s Bazar support, M&E
and vulnerability analysis and mapping (VAM) units in the country office. As a result of the revision process, no
Food Security Surveillance data was gathered during the first two quarters of 2016, but resumed in the second half
of the year.
SCOPE, WFP’s corporate beneficiary and transfer management system, provides data on actual purchase patterns
in the food shops inside the refugee camps. WFP adjusts the voucher’s value each month based on the agreed
commodity prices which are informed by continuous price monitoring in camp shops, adjacent market places and
negotiations with traders.
Results/Outcomes
Strategic Objective 1: Save lives and protect livelihoods in emergencies
Outcome: Stabilized or reduced undernutrition among children aged 6–59 months and pregnant and lactating
women
The treatment of MAM in camps has been persistently satisfactory over the previous years, though high levels of
stunting persist, as reported in the JAM. The key performance indicators for MAM treatment remained stable in
2016. Small improvements from 2015 are noted for recovery and non-response rates, where the former well
exceeds the SPHERE standard (>75 percent), but the latter still is slightly higher than the <15 percent standard
target. Default and mortality indicators are well above target, as well as the proportion of children aged 6-59 months
that receive an adequate number of treatments. In 2015, the coverage for MAM treatment was reported by a
SQUEAC survey. However with the latest SQUEAC survey to be conducted in February 2017, the data is not
available at the time of reporting.
The relatively high rates of MAM treatment non-response may be related to persistent high rates of diarrhea in the
camps and intra-household sharing (and possibly even outside the camp, including some selling), since the
programme is otherwise well implemented, active case follow-up is in place and counseling and nutrition message
recollection is good.
The prevention of acute malnutrition programme showed a high level of participation, which is probably indicative of
the stability of nutrition services in the camp, the acceptability of the specialised food and the limited livelihood
opportunities faced by refugees. Nutrition services seem to be reliable and well organized. However, malnutrition
rates are still high, so there are issues with sharing and other determinants of malnutrition, some identified by the
Joint Assessment Mission and others which need to be further explored.
Data collected shows high acheivement (more than 99 percent) for both ‘the number of people receiving nutrition
counseling supported by WFP’ and ‘the number of targeted caregivers (male and female) receiving 3 key messages
delivered through WFP supported messaging and counseling’, both under the moderate acute malnutrition
treatment intervention. However, this is most likely attributable to the methods of data collection, which vary from
the WFP corporate methods. For the former, court yard sessions and community drama events are counted as
nutrition counseling and participants are not necessarily participants of malnutrition prevention or treatment
programmes. This broadens the scope of people that can be considered receiving nutrition counseling, resulting in
high achievement.
For the three key messages indicator, this has been interpreted not by the recollection of the messages and so is
calculated based on the length of stay in the treatment programme using the frequency of sessions during treatment
(with each session covering one key message).
Outcome: Stabilized or improved food consumption over assistance period for targeted households and/or
individuals
The country office has successfully implemented the e-voucher food assistance for the refugee population. In 2015,
the share of households with acceptable Food Consumption Score (FCS) was well below the target value, mostly
due to beneficiaries purchasing and consuming more rice than other nutritionally important food items. Awareness
trainings on the importance of a well-balanced diet, in combination with increased availability of protein-rich food
items in the shops, such as eggs and dried fish, have contributed to the turnaround in consumption reflected in the
2016 FCS. Male-headed households have exceeded the FCS target, while female-headed households are slightly
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