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Standard Project Report 2016
Achievements at Country Level
WFP assisted more than 1.1 million girls, boys, women and men through five primary operational activities: relief
assistance, assets creation, nutrition, HIV and tuberculosis (TB) programmes, and school feeding. From the country
office in Yangon and nine field offices across the country, WFP delivered assistance to the most food-insecure and
vulnerable communities in Ayeyarwaddy, Bago, Chin, Kachin, Kayah, Kayin, Magway, Mandalay, Mon, Rakhine,
Sagaing, Shan and Wa.
WFP delivered humanitarian food assistance to some of the most inaccessible disaster and conflict affected areas
in the country. More than 530,000 internally displaced, flood-affected and most vulnerable populations benefited
from unconditional food and cash assistance in Ayeyarwaddy, Bago, Chin, Kachin, Magway, Mandalay Mon,
Rakhine, Sagaing, Shan and Wa when access was possible. As a result of increased access to markets and
livelihood opportunities, cash-based transfers were scaled up as the preferred modality, reaching more than 81,000
people. The asset creation activities helped reduce the use of negative coping mechanisms within food-insecure
rural 10,000 households and restored agricultural potential and livelihoods.
Indicators in the nutrition programme remained relatively stable with the end-of-project indicators being surpassed
despite the lack of partners in areas with the highest prevalence of malnutrition. Through the programmes for the
treatment and prevention of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and prevention of stunting, 19,000 pregnant and
lactating women (PLW) and 96,000 malnourished boys and girls aged 6-59 months received specialised nutritious
foods through targeted and blanket supplementary feeding in Chin, Kachin, Magway, Rakhine, Sagaing and Shan.
Consistently positive outcomes were recorded under the food-by-prescription programme in support of more than
12,000 people living with HIV (PLHIV) and TB clients undergoing treatment in Kachin, Magway, Mon, Rakhine,
Shan, Wa and Yangon. In addition, under the expanded school feeding programme, WFP provided daily onsite
school feeding with nutritious snacks in 3,293 schools catering to 297,000 pre-primary and primary schoolboys and
schoolgirls in Chin, Magway, Kayah, Kayin, Mon, Rakhine, Sagaing, Shan and Wa, with the objective of improving
their access to primary education, including in poor monastic schools.
WFP supported the National Zero Hunger Challenge by contributing to the development of the National Action Plan
for Food and Nutrition Security (2016-2025) and facilitating a government-led comprehensive Strategic Review on
food and nutrition security to propose actionable areas for the Government, development partners, and private
sector. WFP established a solid relationship with new Government, working with the Ministry of Border Affairs,
Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health and Sports, Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, and
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development. The inclusion of school feeding and community asset
creation programmes among the Government's eight flagship programmes under the National Social Protection
Strategic Plan (2014-2024) and fruitful dialogue on the national school feeding programme were among the
achievements in 2016.
Recognising the value of every cent contributed by donors, WFP implemented a cost-conscious, results-oriented
and partnership-based operation which sought to keep direct operational costs at minimum while providing effective
service delivery for people in immediate and chronic need of food assistance. This was made possible through a
diverse set of interventions adapted to the particular needs and employing the most suitable transfer modalities or
delivery mechanisms, with the objective of ensuring that the assistance provided was as great as possible and the
supporting processes were as efficient as possible. WFP had cost savings of up to 45 percent for regular trainings
and assessments in 2016. Active fleet scheduling by combining trips for staff using official vehicles allowed WFP to
contain staff overtime and fuel costs resulting in savings of 42 percent in vehicle maintenance costs. WFP also
enhanced its performance monitoring efforts and made significant investments in monitoring and evaluation
capacity development. A new and reliable online beneficiary and transfer management platform, the Country Office
Tool for Managing (programme operations) Effectively (COMET), was introduced to improve beneficiary records
and make WFP's assistance more efficient and accountable.
Significant progress was made in gender and protection. WFP participated in a gender certification pilot, based on
which the country office received the WFP Gender Excellence Award along with only two other countries globally,
after having established minimum quality standards such as a comprehensive gender action plan to promote WFP's
gender equality work in Myanmar. WFP rolled out its complaints and feedback mechanism (CFM), ensuring that
both male and female beneficiaries were able to use various communication channels to provide feedback. The
CFM was further used to conduct more thorough gender and protection analysis which informed needs-based
programming decisions.
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