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Standard Project Report 2016
Annual Project Food Distribution
Commodity
Planned Distribution (mt)
Chickpeas
Actual Distribution (mt)
% Actual v. Planned
117 80 68.5%
1,603 1,104 68.9%
Split Peas 117 80 68.5%
Vegetable Oil 117 81 69.2%
1,953 1,344 68.8%
Rice
Total
Operational Partnerships
The WFP programme in Bhutan fell under the overall oversight of the Gross National Happiness Commission, the
planning body of the Government, w hich coordinated the bilateral and multilateral assistance to Bhutan. On the
operational side, WFP's major partners were the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, and
the Food Corporation of Bhutan Limited. The WFP component of the school feeding programme is fully integrated
into the One Programme of the United Nations (UN) system in Bhutan, a Delivering as One country.
The Ministry of Education was the main counterpart of WFP and the lead agency responsible for the national school
feeding programme. The ministry lived up to its obligation of gradually assuming responsibility of students from
schools or grades no longer supported by WFP in accordance with the hand-over strategy, aimed for completion in
2018.
The Ministry of Forests and Agriculture was WFP's partner for the school agriculture programme, a collaboration
with the Ministry of Education that received support from Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of
Thailand thanks to coordination with WFP. The objective of the school agriculture programme was to educate
school children on agricultural and farming practices through practical demonstrations, the products of which
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